it is an earth song,
a body song, a spring song,
have been waiting long
It’s an earth song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song.
It’s a spring song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.
Strong as the shoots of a new plant
Strong as the bursting of new buds
Strong as the coming of the first child from its mother’s womb.
It’s an earth song,
A body song,
A spring song,
I have been waiting long for this spring song.
Earth Song as printed in The collected poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (Knopf, News York, 1994).
Another sign of spring is kite guy on Hilton Head Island.
Shows up the first 2 weeks of May and spends his morning getting these kites into the air and then spends his afternoons taking them down and winding up the cords.
I used to wonder about kite guy’s outlook on life.
Who would spend their vacation flying kites?
I decided that when someone flies kites with the flag of The United States of America AND the flag of the Republic of Ukraine … and a flag with the peace symbol from the Vietnam War era … you can make some assumptions.
I am reminded of the spring concerts at my elementary school back in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
One year must of raised the level of conversation between school and parents when we sang songs like Bob Dylan’s Blowing in the Wind, John Denver’s Leaving on a Jet Plane and S&G’s 59th Street Bridge Song and If I Could (El cóndor pasa).
This would have at the height of the Hippie / Anti War era in America when several of my older brothers and sisters were off in college in Ann Arbor.
Not sure what was said and by who or to who.
But the next spring we sang nothing but songs from Disney and Let’s Go Fly a Kite sticks out as the song my class sang,
For the haiku, I had to edit Mr. Hughes and change it’s to it is to get my 5 – 7 – 5.
Such cheek on my part.
I should go fly a kite.
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