Tag Archives: Spring

Secret Garden, Hidden Soul

By Robin Bates | Published: May 6, 2023

The secret garden in Burnett’s novel works as a metaphor for the soul.

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Late to the Party

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2023

Patrick Kavanagh’s ode to a late-leafing poplar.

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March Has Come in Like a Liobam

By Robin Bates | Published: March 2, 2023

What do you have when March comes in as both a lion AND a lamb. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, we have liobams.

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Diverse Stones Dancing in a Spring

By Robin Bates | Published: May 29, 2021

Henry Vaughan’s “Regeneration” uses spring imagery to capture spiritual regeneration.

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Spring, a Conflagration of Green Fires

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2021

To welcome in the spring, here’s a D. H. Lawrence poem, brought to you by the color green.

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Shafts of Golden Light

By Robin Bates | Published: April 11, 2020

Easter Sunday For Easter I offer up two April poems that work as a before and after. First, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks of the “slumbering silence” before everything bursts into flower. Then William Carlos William describes that bursting as almost too much to bear. First the breathless anticipation, then the flowering. In the Rilke poem, […]

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