Night’s fire no longer crackling
Morning sun on limber saplings
Bows taut, snap like gingerbread
Wait for the dawn to get cracking
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Frost’s music, waiting to be read
In notes written on paths less tread
Not just to death do they allude
Winter’s song bids us look ahead
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Listen to ev’ry interlude
Diamond wind chimes set the mood
A mournful winter’s melody
Whistling tunes of solitude
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Wreathed in fog, we wait breathlessly
For winter’s summer elegy
Writ in dawn’s ink, transcendently
Sung by birds reverentially
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A/N: This poem was Inspired frost and Frost, using the structure of his poem (mostly, couldn’t find the right double line to end on) and allusions to his imagery from this and other poems:
About the Creator
Sean A.
A happy guy that tends to write a little cynically. Just my way of dealing with the world outside my joyous little bubble.
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (9)
This is a lovely, soothing tribute to Frost. Well done!
You captured the quiet stillness of a cold winter morning perfectly. I especially love the nod to Robert Frost. The line "Frost’s music, waiting to be read" is so clever and poetic. It really gives the sense that even in the cold and solitude, there's a chance to look ahead. Great work!
Love this—so chill and wintry, yet full of life! ❄️ The images dance like ice crystals in sunlight. I can almost hear the diamond wind chimes tinkling. 🎶
Oooo, diamond wind, I especially loved that! Your poem was so beautiful!
I am eager to read more poetry written in dawn's ink!
Like Andrea, I loved the diamond wind chimes too. Lovely imagery.
Beautiful - love the double usag/allusion to 'Frost' and the road less traveled!! This whole piece is quite magical. :)
Would a lovely poem, Sean. I love the “diamond wind chimes.”
this is charming...the second paragraph is my favorite