I couldn’t decide what poem to run with this month, so as I am writing a 10 part series for BBC Radio 4 about the Moon, and all my mind is moon just now, it had to be this one…
The Freedom of the Moon
By Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I’ve tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first water-star almost as shining.
I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later
I’ve pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,
And brought it over glossy water, greater,
And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,
The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.
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