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[paoladegliesposti 520]

Birches - Poem by Robert Frost

 

 

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground,
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm,
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows-
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Edited May 3, 2016 by paoladegliesposti

[littlejoe3 37]

my garden.

 

..Nice poem Paola. Love to climb in trees since I was young. At the top branch- the sky is more blue.

 

I'd crank this one up loud www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw05Pg6NVrU

Edited May 3, 2016 by littlejoe3

[paoladegliesposti 520]

thank you and good evening, I love the song that follows

 

[U2LAWoman 148]

Good evening or good day all! This song hasn't been played for some time. Since the 80's and only nineteen times according to U2gigs!

 

Shadows And Tall Trees lyrics

Back to the cold restless streets at night
Talk to myself about tomorrow night
Walls of white protest
A gravestone in name
Who is it now
It's always the same

Who is it now
Who calls me inside
All the leaves on the trees
Just live in disguise
I walk street rain tragicomedy
I'll walk home again
To the street melody

But I know, oh no
But I know, oh no
But I know

Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees

Life through a window
Discoloured pane
Mrs. Brown's washing is always the same
I walk street rain tragicomedy
I'll walk home again
To the street melody

But I know, oh no
But I know, oh no
But I know

Do you feel in me
Anything redeeming
Any worthwhile feeling
Is love like a tightrope
Hanging from my ceiling

But I know, oh no
But I know, oh no
But I know

Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadow, shadow, shadow
My shadow, shadow, shadow
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Follow me and my shadow, shadow, shadow
Salute my shadow, shadow, shadow
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall

[littlejoe3 37]

Love that song, of course- I have the cd.

 

I think the saying goes something like the "taller the tree- the more you see"... "the taller the shadow- the taller the tree". The Sea?

 

Just heard this announcement... I think I might have to take a vacation to see this one.

 

 

....WOW!

Edited May 3, 2016 by littlejoe3

[U2LAWoman 148]

Love that song, of course- I have the cd.

 

I think the saying goes something like the "taller the tree- the more you see"... "the taller the shadow- the taller the tree". The Sea?

 

Just heard this announcement... I think I might have to take a vacation to see this one.

 

 

aaaa.jpg....WOW!

Holy Joe!!!Super exciting, can't believe it. Historic!!! Wish U2 could join em. Think this summer and fall is turning out to be great one!!!!  

[U2LAWoman 148]

[littlejoe3 37]

When I was a kid some people I respected told me that the stones were satanic. I was also told to believe in some fat german bearded man in a red suit.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=suMgW0KW3jQ

[littlejoe3 37]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XKyRHVwnc

[littlejoe3 37]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwE3ZztRCCk