The Zing of Spring
The boasting crocus
woke us singing
Dandelions were roaring
and bluebells were ringing
Loose-lipped tulips
made the red poppies blush
The iris joined the chorus
and the crabapples fussed
The daffodils were baffled
by the mourning dove’s weeping
Wagging dogwoods barking
kept the peepers from sleeping
_______________Colleen Redman
Post note: The above is a recent re-write for “Jasmine Patchouli I Love You Truly,” an old manuscript of nursery rhymes through the seasons that I’m working on.
April 16th, 2010 9:52 am
Beautiful flower with matching beautiful nursery rhymes. Lovely!
April 16th, 2010 11:09 am
I love how this sounds phonetically like spring. I love how vibrant it is! More please!!
April 16th, 2010 12:01 pm
Very nice. A cool challenge that I might think about doing some day!
April 16th, 2010 6:19 pm
Fabulous image and LOVE the rhyme!!
April 16th, 2010 7:56 pm
ah, good to see you’re combing thru and revising a manuscript. I find it a time-consuming process but useful for the soul, and secondarily, for the poetry.
April 16th, 2010 8:04 pm
I started these rhymes 30 years ago. Many were written for young children I knew who are now grown. I have picked them up and put them down before, more than once. I thought this one was down but I found myself still re-writing it throughout the day.
Update: I just changed the second line.
April 17th, 2010 3:18 pm
I love it!!!
April 17th, 2010 9:04 pm
oh, colleen, i would remove these now. they will be such a nice collection for publication with the right illustrations, and i am afraid if you leave them here you could jeopardize your copyright. i remember mb having an issue with someone “stealing” her poetry a while back, right off her blog. whoever it was reposted it as her own! mb has not posted now in a year or more. such a loss for us. these are wonderful, colleen, and i am sure would make a delightful book! i hope you protect them and you!
April 18th, 2010 12:33 am
I hope nothing like that ever happens! From my understanding, copyright laws would protect me, if someone stole my writing and I wanted to pursue it. I have added my name to them and don’t plan on posting them all. Who is mb? Does he/she still have a blog?
April 18th, 2010 7:19 am
Thanks for your comment on my blog ~ I am in the NRV (Blacksburg). The Huckleberry trail you mention in your comment on my blog is the same trail I am walking on 🙂
April 18th, 2010 8:22 am
in response to your qt – she is exceptionally talented in a myriad of ways – she is a wife, mother, poet, writer, photographer, graphic designer, musician, singer, song writer, nature lover, hiker, camper, etc., who works in the boise area. her blog, find me a bluebird, is now inactive. her poetry (and perhaps some of her photography) was taken and posted on another website by someone else who took credit for it. her inclination to blog was permanently affected following that ordeal. she is now careful to protect her work. it has been a huge loss to many of us who love her work. (i think she is one of the most talented people i have met via blogging and especially enjoyed her poetry. i read her blog every day without fail.)
publishers can react adversely to work which has been posted on the internet prior to official publication. it is none of my business, but i think it is a very risky practice if you have any intention of publishing.
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April 18th, 2010 9:45 am
Thanks for the link and the details on mb, Sky. I’m glad her blog is still up at least because I will enjoy browsing through it, but sad she is not there to post and read comments. Maybe my posting of my poetry shows an underlying disbelief that the nursery rhymes will ever be published by a mainstream press. I actually had a small press publisher who was interested in them many years ago but her venture folded before it came to be.
This topic is a big one and brings up many questions about the internet and blogging and general. There is a lot of me to steal from this blog if someone wanted to. Being online can bring so much in the way of readership, exposure, new friends and opportunities for sharing but it can also expose you to harm. I think it a double-edged sword all around.
April 18th, 2010 10:46 am
So beautiful. Such a striking colour too 🙂
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April 18th, 2010 6:19 pm
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April 19th, 2010 5:34 pm
love it love it hit me right where my zing for Spring is !! sandy
April 19th, 2010 7:58 pm
[…] I went to my yearly CPR class on Saturday with nursery rhymes on my mind. I tried to jot them down in my notebook like I did many years ago while making fire […]
April 19th, 2010 9:18 pm
Brilliant!
April 20th, 2010 9:51 am
[…] stage. In keeping with the night of surprising literary styles, I did one-liners from my blog and nursery rhymes. Wolf Cherrix, still dressed as his YAC character Emperor Ming, took questions from the audience […]
April 28th, 2010 7:43 pm
Gorgeous flowers!
April 21st, 2011 7:44 am
[…] 9. The boasting crocus /woke us singing/ Dandelions were roaring/ and bluebells were ringing/ Loose-lipped tulips /made the red poppies blush /The iris joined the chorus/ and the crabapples fussed … Read the rest of this poem HERE. […]
March 7th, 2012 10:31 pm
[…] 12. The boasting crocus / woke us singing / Dandelions were roaring / and bluebells were ringing / Loose-lipped tulips / made the red poppies blush / The iris joined the chorus / and the crabapples fussed / The daffodils were baffled / by the mourning dove’s weeping / Wagging dogwoods barking / kept the peepers from sleeping. ~ From The Zing of Spring […]
April 1st, 2015 8:40 pm
[…] 12. The daffodils were baffled / by the mourning dove’s weeping / And wagging dogwoods barking / kept the peepers from sleeping – More from my 30 year old always changing poem, The Zing of Spring HERE. […]