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The Leaves Lie

The leaves lie thicker on the path

Than the last time I passed.

I can not count them.

But, like we men

All leaves fall

And rhymes

End

Minus 3

It will be minus 3 tonight.

The light

Dies fast in winter.

 

 

There is a splinter

Of ice in my heart

With which I make art.

 

 

True, sometimes the sun breaks through.

But for now I rhyme

Of wintertime.

 

Spring will bring birdsong

But winter’s splinter is forever part

Of my poet’s heart.

 

 

Though birdsong does not last long

It may live on

When I am gone

In a rhyme  of my wintertime.

 

My November Guest by Robert Frost, Read by Robert Frost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-2AWegHHqc

 

It being the first of November, I thought that I would post one of my favourite poems, my November Guest by Robert Frost.

 

Frost was a New England poet. However, given that he spent some time in England and was friends with the English poet Edward Thomas, I think we English can also lay claim to Frost’s wonderful poetry. No brickbats from my American readers for laying claim to Robert Frost please!

 

You can find My November Guest in Frost’s A Boy’s Will.