Robert Frost

Perhaps All Four

- robin

Last week, when Matilda spent the weekend at The Cottage, she found this huge leaf. (Including stem it is about 18″ long)

I have kept it and think of her each time I look at it.

Photo: Matilda’s Leaf

This leaf makes me think of Matilda, Robert Frost and the poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

What is this poem truly about? Nature? Friendship? Love? A Creative Spirit? Perhaps all four? Perhaps something else?

Love you beyond the moon and stars.

Me

Perfect For Today

- robin

As I walked my laps today,

all  I could  think about was being on Kaua’i.

The smell of the ocean and  to feel the sand under my feet.

Oh, the sand.

***

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.

As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull

The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be-
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.

They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?

~Robert Frost~

I adore this poem.

It is perfect for today.

As my thoughts vary

and go slightly array.

Love you.

Me