{"id":469,"date":"2004-10-21T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/gathering-leaves-by-robert-frost\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:34:44","slug":"gathering-leaves-by-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/gathering-leaves-by-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Writer’s Almanac – OCTOBER 18 – 24, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

Gathering Leaves
\nby Robert Frost<\/p>\n

Spades take up leaves
\nNo better than spoons,
\nAnd bags full of leaves
\nAre light as balloons.<\/p>\n

I make a great noise
\nOf rustling all day
\nLike rabbit and deer
\nRunning away.<\/p>\n

But the mountains I raise
\nElude my embrace,
\nFlowing over my arms
\nAnd into my face.<\/p>\n

I may load and unload
\nAgain and again
\nTill I fill the whole shed,
\nAnd what have I then?<\/p>\n

Next to nothing for weight;
\nAnd since they grew duller
\nFrom contact with earth,
\nNext to nothing for color.<\/p>\n

Next to nothing for use.
\nBut a crop is a crop,
\nAnd who’s to say where
\nThe harvest shall stop?<\/p>\n

While this isn’t Frost’s best, it reminds me that Frost was the last American poet in my awareness<\/em> to handle rhyme so well. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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