Tyler and Audrey and I were in Goodwill today browsing for nothing, but enjoying it. Ty came across a Robert Frost book filled with his various poems. While we were waiting in the car for Kelsey, (who had been watching kids for 6 hours, while their (the kids') parents attended the Parenting Seminar, Current Life hosted) I flipped through the book, and mused at his various works. I really like his work. It's thought provoking, comes easy off the tongue, and leaves a good lasting impression. I was flipping through the book when I came to a page with about 5 short poems scattered on it. One of them, was the poem, "A Question ". This is how it read:
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
I thought about it for a while. First musing over the choice of words, then over the meaning. I won't try to explain how I heard the poem, because it does that itself quite well. It amazed me though, how thought provoking and profound even a small four stanza poem as this could be. I've questioned what a real writer is. What makes a writer a classic? How come Shakespeare is such a legendary play write? Somehow, I got my answer within A Question.
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