{"id":2162,"date":"2016-03-20T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2016-03-20T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:31:16","slug":"poem-spring-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/poem-spring-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Spring Has Sprung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Winter is passed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And still<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What is dung is dung<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yet in concert with nature<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sow becoming<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A sublime movement<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From the bowels of Mother Earth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And her thirst borne sun<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Spring has sprung<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From her fertile eyes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Perfectly teeming<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With body and soul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a poem for the first day of Spring.\u00a0 This poem celebrates both the cyclic revitalization of nature through the seasons and the inevitable arisings of social movements from the <em>What is dung is dung<\/em> of politics.\u00a0 I frequently harken back to the theme of hope springing eternal.\u00a0 If you are discouraged about the apparent lack of change in the world, just wait, change happens.\u00a0 Even better yet, just wade, into such a fertile &#8212; even overripe &#8212; environment for change.\u00a0 Both Mother Earth and the collective souls of humanity beckon your participation.\u00a0 What is that I see breaking through the once cold, hard dirt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is passed And still What is dung is dung Yet in concert with nature Sow becoming A sublime movement From the bowels of Mother Earth And her thirst borne sun Spring has sprung From her fertile eyes Perfectly teeming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/poem-spring-sprung\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[397,481,388,305,643,379,658,94,215,53,96,531],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-change","tag-environment","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-mother-earth","tag-nature","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-politics","tag-short-poems","tag-social-movements","tag-soul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Spring Has Sprung | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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