rail branches

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  • Author: crypticbard (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: October 27th, 2022 23:47
  • Comment from author about the poem: not to forget, orchi, still going...
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 14
  • User favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek.
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Comments4

  • orchidee

    I never knew there was so much to rail branches. Well, I know now from this fine write.
    This is a standard comment I make when I stand back in amazement at poems! lol.

    • arqios

      By that token, being almost always amazed, I don the stunned mullet look!

    • Neville



      I think this is superb CB & no kidding 🙂

      • arqios

        Thanks Nev! Glad you think so.

      • L. B. Mek

        I read your words and contemplated
        took me back to when i first came across these memorable lines by that great Poet of untrodden paths:
        '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,'
        from Robert Frost's, 'Birches'
        (thank you! dear Poet
        a brilliant read)

        • arqios

          Thanks to you as well, dear Mek; for bringing me back to Frost! He really put thought into word quite familiarly.

        • sorenbarrett

          This short snapshot of a poem dives deep into my heart and soul. I have live oaks show branches are covered with Spanish moss that this so reminds me of. At times an orchid will flower them. Nature is truly beautiful. A great write.

          • arqios

            That is absolutely spot on, Soren! The branching out at exemplified primarily by trees 🌳 and the proliferation of orchid and fungi. Glad of it, your dive and recollection. Rik.



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