The Investment

I just stumbled upon this poem, and there is just something about it that I really like

The Investment

Over back where they speak of life as staying
('You couldn't call it living, for it ain't'),
There was an old, old house renewed with paint,
And in it a piano loudly playing.

Out in the plowed ground in the cold a digger,
Among unearthed potatoes standing still,
Was counting winter dinners, one a hill,
With half an ear to the piano's vigor.

All that piano and new paint back there,
Was it some money suddenly come into?
Or some extravagance young love had been to?
Or old love on an impulse not to care--

Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?

I really love the secound stanza, there is something very powerful in that image to me. It is a charming poem I think, that speaks a lot about life, and not growing stagnent with each other.

This is one of my favorites of Frost too. I edit an inhouse paper for the retirement community where I live, and I plan to use a part of it for my January issue...

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jeffers kills all other poets.