Subject: Winter Solstice
From: Robert G Eckert (robertgeraldeckert@JUNO.COM)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 16:53:22 EST
From: robertgeraldeckert
Subject: Winter Solstice
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999
Happy solstice.
I don't have a copy in front of me, but I think it goes
"Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though:
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
First stanza-- For some reason, I think that they are his woods. And
he's there for some time if they are filling up with snow while he
watches.
Second stanza-- He's out there in nature on this "darkest evening of the
year" meditating. Here he may indeed intend the authentic "darkest
evening"-- the winter solstice.
Third stanza-- I like to think of this as the precise moment of the
solstice itself. The cycle has just surpassed its darkest point and
begins to open up to the new solar year.
Fourth stanza-- recognizes the darkness that has just passed and the
opening up of the a new phase of light and life.
Robert Gerald Eckert
Rochester, New York
"Understanding and being open to all things,
Are you able to do nothing?"
--- Tao Te Ching (10) - Lao Tsu
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