Beginnings and Endings...

I was watching an old movie recently and was taken by a poem one of the characters narrated. It was a very short Robert Frost poem and it touched me for a number of reasons.

Though short, I found it incredibly meaningful and was reminded that it doesn’t take much to make an impact.

The character in the film who narrated the poem, did so verbatim from memory. He was a teenager, failing in school and yet his love of reading shows how powerful this medium is.

The poem itself explores, birth, transition, endings and re-birth. Each stage holds meaning and perhaps we can benefit letting ourselves flow with nature.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

How does this poem resonate with you? What meaning do you take from it and how would you describe it to someone?

Like the poem, this post now turns Gold and ends, making way for the dawning of a new message that I’ll conjure up at some point…until then I hope you will continue to enjoy this poem and any others you are reminded to re-read and explore again.