READ/SEE THE REST AT Robert Frost’s “Birches”: A Visual Interpretation by Julian Peters
AND just so Frost doesn’t strike you as too sweet, here’s another poet wandering in a “pathless wood.”

READ/SEE THE REST AT Robert Frost’s “Birches”: A Visual Interpretation by Julian Peters
AND just so Frost doesn’t strike you as too sweet, here’s another poet wandering in a “pathless wood.”
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Only by Fire is Fascism Finished
Year upon year in Earth’s darker forests,
Heaped at the foot of the trees,
Dry drifts of wood rot and leaf fall increase
Which sunlight shall never seize.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
The ash that descends in the September skies
Where the leapers swam down the stones?
Best answered by bombs from mid-heaven at prayer
With that fire which hollows the bones.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
If their god decrees war, God’s war shall prevail.
His lessons are seared in His stone.
No dreams shall defer, nor wishes erase,
The answers that burn in the bone.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
Only by Fire is Fascism Finished.
This Sin is demanded that Your Line may Live.
Only through Fire is Freedom Reborn.
Each generation pulls the Sword from the Stone.
— Van der Leun
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Nothing like a walk through an “empty” forest to awaken ones senses.
I first read that as “Bitches”.
I likes me sum birches, but alas they are rare in these parts.
There is no such thing as an empty forest – they are full of life that is unrecognizable to the inexperienced.
I used to swing maples. They grew thick along a hedgerow bordering our field. Lotsa fun. Cheap thrills. Didn’t hurt anything.
In northeast rural Massachusetts, birches grow wild in clumps. And, yes, we did climb and ride them down.