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The PR of spring. What is the PR of spring? Or better yet, who are the best PR practitioners for spring? Anyone? Anyone? Feel free to comment at the bottom. No, really – it’s free.  Answer: Poets.

Okay, before you all tune out and turn off, allow me to be self-indulgent. When I first started this blog, my goal was to talk about language and anything to do with language within the parameters of PR. Ha! Didn’t happen that way. The quest for PR took over. And then spring arrives and suddenly I start craving poetry.

If language was a client, then poetry would be the PR agency for language and the poet would be the PR practitioner. Poetry is rich with key messages and sound bites. So, I thought spring, poetry, poets, PR blogging, it all came together somehow, and yeah, I know it’s a stretch and I take responsibility for the cheese factor, but spring does that to a person.

So, in celebration of spring, I’d now like to share with you, oh loyal readers, in the hopes I don’t turn you away but inspire you, some Emily Dickinson and ee cummings sound bites:

The Robins stand as thick today/As flakes of snow stood yesterday (ED #64)

The Neighbors do not yet suspect! The Woods exchange a smile! Orchard, and Buttercup, and Bird — In such a little while!/And yet, how still the Landscape stands! How nonchalant the Hedge! As if the “Resurrection” Were nothing very strange! (ED #74)

in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring (eec ~ in Just)