Friday, December 10, 2010

Poetry Friday: An Atticus Pick


Another by Robert Frost this week.  Thanks, Atticus.


The Sound of Trees 
by Robert Frost 

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.

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The Poetry Friday round up is at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup today.

3 comments:

Jeannine Atkins said...

There can never be too much Frost. Or trees. Thank you for putting their sounds in my day.

Karen Edmisten said...

I agree completely, Jeannine.

Mary Lee said...

TREE AT MY WINDOW

Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.

Vague dream head lifted out of the ground,
And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
Not all your light tongues talking aloud
Could be profound.

But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken and swept
And all but lost.

That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.


I love it that Frost came back again and again to the trees...