I Sit and Think ....



I Sit and Think


I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

- JRR Tolkien



for the uninitiated - Tolkein is the one who wrote The
Lord of the Rings ages ago!

Comments

Anonymous said…
hey...you gotto give me some credit for this one....!!!
Anonymous said…
yo preet...gr8 work..dats an awesome poetry...nuvve gr8...
sushama said…
ya preets , this is a realy thoughtful poetry.

jus think of all that yourself n u feel a huge space that u can never realy see n thats not even easy to imagine.
oh yes! imagination is minds language, but its abstract too!
Anonymous said…
hey...........preet!its a nice thoughtful poem n preet......is he da POET????aha....jus doubt anthe.......nwaz i cn nvr a poem like dis ..........so all i can comment is ur gr8 to find one like dis n one one who WROTE DIS is da greatest.........coz i knw nthng abt nythng to comment!!!!!!

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