A Poem For Today - Early Spring

[KEN DICKINSON]

Early Spring

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness

has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.

Little rivulets of water changed

their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth

from space, and country lanes are showing

these unexpected subtle risings

that find expression in the empty trees.

   - Rainer Maria Rilke

   (Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming)

[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

coincidence! I was just wondering about what softness and tenderness feel like (as opposed to the idea of softness and tenderness)

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