{"id":1374,"date":"2015-05-15T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:23","slug":"may-15-maine-lives-north-of-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/05\/15\/may-15-maine-lives-north-of-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"May 15 – Maine lives north of Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, \u00a0May 15 – \u00a0“I watch the spring come slow-ly”<\/p>\n

Traveling north-south, south-north during season changing time lets trees and ground plants show their stuff to visitors. \u00a0Readers from where I live this Mid-May morning will recognize how much farther north it is in mid-Maine. \u00a0Sometimes if we get lucky and have time, we can catch three or four spring-unfolding times with a little traveling. \u00a0 Poet Rhonda Neshama Waller offers readers to her south a taste of what down here was weeks ago \u2014 “warm sun, after a week of rain, hail, snow.\u201d \u00a0 In Detroit, we\u2019ll touch 80\u00ba over the weekend, most of our leaves have spread to full size, tulips have already blown our minds. \u00a0 Which part of spring is more beautiful? \u00a0\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post \u00a0– \u00a0Rhoda Neshama Waller:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Spring Comes to Maine”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eagles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonnet May 10<\/p>\n

Almost mid-May, I watch the spring come slow-
\nly day by day, pale lime-green moving up
\nfrom Sheepscot Valley towards my mountaintop,
\nup here the leaves still furled. Two eagles flew,
\nlate afternoon, just past the east window.
\nToday, wild violets everywhere I step,
\nbright golden dandelions on the slope,
\nwarm sun, after a week of rain, hail, snow.
\nRemembering to match my pace to this,
\nto note the details of each day\u2019s new turn,
\nthe distant hills still patched with lavender,
\ndeep green of fir, the changing moments pass.
\nFor dinner I\u2019ll have buttered fiddlehead fern,
\nThe daffodils are opening in the grass.<\/p>\n

\"Rhonda<\/a><\/p>\n

“Spring Comes to Maine” by Rhoda Neshama Waller. Presented here by poet submission.<\/p>\n

Art credit:\u00a0“Two adults from the local Bald Eagle family,”\u00a0photograph<\/a> taken August 19, 2012, near Pembroke, Maine (USA), perhaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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