The Grand Yes of Springtime
I was rearranging a bookshelf today and happened across a little volume of poems by e.e. cummings. I got lost in its pages for awhile, my spirit soaring at the beauty of some of his thoughts, and I came across one poem that’s among my very favorites.
I’ll share it with in a minute. But first I should tell you that I absolutely love springtime, and that May is my favorite month of them all. When I was growing up, every May 1st I would go to the nearby woods and pick a huge bouquet of wildflowers for my mother. “May” was my mom’s middle name, and more than that, our birthdays both fell in May.
In the part of the country where I live, it’s the time when the world is suddenly green again, and decked with flowers. You can go outside without boots and mittens and a heavy coat. It’s a time of freedom. The air is fresh and filled with the chorus of the returning songbirds, everything is exuberantly bursting with new life and gladness.
I love cummings’ poem because it captures that exuberance so completely. But more than that, it dives to the heart of celebration in praise of the Infinite Source of it all. He calls that Source “God,” and so do I. But think of whatever you personally believe to be the power within and beneath it all, and enjoy this beautiful poem:
I thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
Wishing you a beautiful May, my friends.
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Susan, Happy Birthday, your daily comments are so uplifting, and
your outlook on life keeps all of us looking for the best we can be.
Wonderful to see you here, Mike! Thanks for the encouragement–and for the Birthday greeting! Wishing you a beautiful spring, powerful health, and pleasant times with your family.