“AT ROBERT FROST’S DERRY FARM” and “Wit and Wisdom of Robert Frost” plus video of him reciting “The Road Not Taken” live!
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY for the SPIRITUAL SOUL
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 7, Issue Number 554
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section Number 320
Lovingly written and selected, polished and published by Chinmayan
Saturday, October 28, 2023 »»»»»3 Minute READ TIME«««««
This poem was written when my then young daughter and I trekked together to be there one magical evening. I was not expecting to be so deeply moved just by our being alone at the farm, which is kept as if he would come walking in from the fields at any moment, as we were. So much love, mixed with loneliness and heartache and the sweetness of spirit that being a creator of beautiful poetry brings…
AT ROBERT FROST’S DERRY FARM
We arrived too late
To see inside the house
But the fields,
And sky and forests
Are always open.
Here is a little
Spring pond pool
So smooth and still
It reflects overhanging trees.
Here is a path
Winding far back
From the now
Busy road.
Much has changed
Since those long ago years,
And yet much
Remains the same.
Any place that has
Been greatly loved as this,
Retains that quality
Of growing love—
Nothing can take
It away.
I feel such love,
Radiant and peaceful,
As we walk this land
At the end of day—
Reminded lovingly of
The poet now gone,
But whose essence
Still remains—
Even in this world of
Tumult and change,
His words come gently to mind
“I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”
August 23, 1990
Derry, New Hampshire
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF ROBERT FROST
Some of my favorites from his poetry and letters….
“ Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom…in a clarification of life…not necessarily a great clarification…but a momentary stay against confusion.”
“What we live by we die by.”
“And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
ROBERT FROST RECITING ONE HIS BEST POEMS with the verses on screen for easy follow along…
This is one of the very best videos of this poem!!!
“The Road Not Taken” Recited by Robert Frost
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