계절의 여왕 5월에 봄눈과 봄글과 함께....

 

 

5월 6일 아침에 함박눈이 수북하게 내린 우리집 앞마당

 

 

2주 전부터 정원과 텃밭에 겨우내 쌓인 묵은 낙엽들과 쓰레기를 치우고,

누렇게 변한 잔디들도 산뜻하게 긁어내고,

채소씨를 뿌리기 전에 텃밭의 흙을 엎은 후 퇴비를 넣고 땅을 골라준 후에

5월 첫 주말에 꽃모종도 심고,

작년에 모아 둔 채소씨를 심으려는 생각에 잔뜩 부풀었다.

 

그런 생각을 아는지 모르는지 아침에 일어났더니

솜털같은 함박눈이 한치 앞도 보이지 않을 정도로 내려서

완전 설국으로 둔갑해서 그저 기가 막혀서

허허허 웃고 말았다.

 

잔뜩 부풀어 오른 마음에 찬물을 끼얹은 폭설이지만

푸른 새싹은 아니더라도

천상에서 선사해 준 하얀 눈꽃은

바라만 봐도 저절로 아름답고 포근해서 다소 위안이 된다.

 

눈 질끈 감고 덤덤하게 기다리다 보면

오만 애간장을 태울만큼 다 태우고

언제가는 맛보기만 아니라

참 봄이 올 것이 자연의 이치이니

아름다운 설경을 배경으로

아름다운 봄 글 몇편을 천천히 음미 해 본다.

 

 

 

 

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran

 

 

 

 

"The world's favorite season is the spring. 
All things seem possible in May."
-  Edwin Way Teale

 

 

 

 

 

"Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest."
- Matsuo Basho

 

 

 

 

 

"O day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen."
-  Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Spring - an experience in immortality."
-  Henry D. Thoreau  

 

 

 

 

 

"A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King."
-  Emily Dickinson 

 

 

 

 

 

"Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on."
-  Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs

 

 

 

 

 

"Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
-  John Keats  

 

 

 

 

 

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
-  Susan J. Bissonette 

 

 

 

 

 

We may give without loving,

but we cannot love without giving.

Bernard Meltzer

 

 

 

 

 

"We know the past but cannot control it.
We control the future but cannot know it."
-  Claude Shannon

 

 

 

 

 

Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path

and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; 

if it were voices instead of colors,

there would be an unbelievable shrieking

into the heart of the night." 
-  Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

 

 

 

Spring has returned.

The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

창가엔 노란 베고니아와

핑크빛 사탕같은 호야꽃이

활짝 피어서 봄의 체면을 세워 주고...

 

 

 

Spring: the music of open windows.

~Terri Guillemets

 

 

 

 

 

 

We know what we are,

but know not what we may be.

-William Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

"Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment."
-  Ellis Peters 

 

 

 

 

 

"At Christmas, I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's newfangled mirth;
But like each thing that in season grows."
-  William Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

"How fair doth Nature
Appear again!
How bright the sunbeams!
How smiles the plain!
The flow'rs are bursting
From ev'ry bough,
And thousand voices
Each bush yields now.
And joy and gladness
Fill ev'ry breast!
Oh earth!--oh sunlight!
Oh rapture blest!
Oh love! oh loved one!"
-  Goethe, May Song

 

 

 

 

 

"Poetry is the silence and speech

between a wet struggling root of a flower

and a sunlit blossom of that flower." 
-  Carl Sandburg 

 

 

 

"You can cut all the flowers

but you cannot keep spring from coming. "
-  Pablo Neruda

 

 

 

 

 

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
-  Susan J. Bissonette 

 

 

 

 

"The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
Alas, that the trees in this easter garden,
Without me, will still bear flowers."
-  Su Ting, circa 700 CE 

 

 

 

 

 

불과 이틀 전엔 따스한 봄볕에 아름다운 자태를 보이려고 채비를 채렸는데..

 

 

"If you've never been thrilled

to the very edges of your soul

by a flower in spring bloom,

maybe your soul has never been in bloom." 
-  Audra Foveo 

 

 

 

 

 

 "Spring is God's way of saying,

'one more time!' "
-  Robert Orben