302: Birches

[exceptindreams]

“Birches

Comments

[tulips_and_lace]

This poem always reminds me of the movie "Here On Earth", where the two characters read it in the woods. Which is why my favorite part is:

"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."

and

"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."

That last line is amazing.

[chiropteraclan]

This is one of my most favourite poems.

[heylight]

this is one of my favorite poems of ever.

[bronchitikat]

Beautiful. I like Robert Frost.

[meiji_nikan]

I had never read this poem before, even though i own a collection of robert frost's poems. I like this a lot though, especially the last line and the line about heaven's dome. Thanks for posting