A duel of words
with Robert Frost
already lost
for his old sword’s
mightier than
my new laptop
and so I’ll stop
ere I began.
Katherine Parker Richmond aspires to be the poet laureate of cheapskate moms. She lives in a big red ramshackle house in Ellensburg, Washington, with her husband, son, daughter and two long-suffering cats.
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Posted on May 3, 2010 in Humour/Satire
7 Responses to “FORESTALLED • by by Katherine Parker Richmond”
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May 3rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Ah, perfect for Monday morning in front of the computer! I’ll go clean my kitchen now.
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:53 am
Needed that shot o’ optimism on my writing this morning. I do so love Frost. Peace…
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Just which Robert Frost poem are you dueling with? Is it this fragment of one of his poems?
“I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, ‘What is it?’
No, not as there is a time talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.”
BY ROBERT FROST
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I enjoyed reading this poem, laconic in form but rich in content.
May 6th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Dear Ms. Parker, In a duel always stay “Frosty.”
May 7th, 2010 at 6:11 am
Ah, his poems where amazing ^_^ I liked your poem a lot as well.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:43 am
In that quote from Robert Frost, the fourth line should read: “***a time to talk.”