“Greenness" refers to the state of being green, encompassing environmental sustainability, fresh vegetation (verdure), or lack of maturity/experience. It denotes ecological consciousness in business and lifestyle, but historically implies inexperience and youth
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early May, rainy day,
stay inside, doing inside things,
glancing outside and the
outside slaps me back hard!
fresh across my face
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oh it’s been spring for awhile
and it symptoms are unmistakably
May~ish; But today,
amidst the overcast tried and truish gloom,
a mere sideways glance make the heart
prance, the skin to tingle and all these
senses jangle and jar in unison like a
hopeful newly remarried widowed person
there is green and there is the quality of greeness;
the verdurous luxuriant shaded colors of like,
a sole tapestry of green upon green, vigor personified,
coordinated like different textiles, all inter-textured,
all variegated green, and I am struck by the knowing,
the slow grind of being upended by-the~suddenness of the
where of the how, the year disappears and still feeling the
slowing arcticicty of a signaling of the seasonality,
of the winters side of the border now being crossed,
and forgetting the residual curses with which it was “blessed;”
and the nearness of… the airy qualities of
sunlight rising and summer breathing lifting…
and it strikes me so hard for it is an
expression of teeming life, a resurgence of
new chances and renewal squealing of a body’s warmth,
unlike no other; but the best, the finest sense is that of
of the naivety of innocence, and for a moment, just, for
a moment the green is subsumed and I, old man, I,
maturing into a youthful white, and the hoary pastel of
aged paleness, is re-covered like old linoleum,
and well disguised, and even shining hidden…
postscript
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I look back, over my shoulder,
smiling, wondering from whence
these words came within / from;
but I know, they,
will and were always within me stored, recorded,
all I needed do was a recombinant rebirthing,
dancing them anew in a differing combination