Chris Navin

July 24, 2008

Friday Poem: Design By Robert Frost

Filed under: Poetry — chr1 @ 6:51 pm
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Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth–
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth–
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?–
If design govern in a thing so small.

-Robert Frost (wikipedia)

Maybe there isn’t a God, but maybe there’s still design?

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