Sunday 2 March 2014


SOLITARY TRAVELERS



Crystal children glitter and glow
Myriad hues from them do flow
Their feet untouched by graveled lane
Success, success, never one blow

How awful pressure keeps them sane
Input-output in perfect brain
Muses a poor soul sitting near
Lucky chaps why envy in vain

Peerless children don’t need a peer
They’re taught to battle hard without fear
Their orbit’s lonely they don’t weep
Life to them isn’t even dear

They see the beauty dark and deep
But they have promises to keep
And miles to go before they sleep
And miles to go before they sleep

  Posted for Kerry's Prompt ~ A Birthday in March - Frost @ Real Toads
&
Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United


37 comments:

  1. beautiful... love the last verse, and the repetition of the last line... enchanting.

    ReplyDelete
  2. hey i know where those last lines came from...nice homage....teaching children they need no peer...i wonder what price success takes you know.....

    ReplyDelete
  3. I like it when children should dream fearlessly ~

    The repetition works well for me and echoes Frost famous lines as well ~

    Happy Sunday ~

    ReplyDelete
  4. You have nicely penned the intensity and ironic path of the success-driven child.

    ReplyDelete
  5. an elegant poem!
    in this success-driven world, sometimes it's the parents who are doing the pushing..

    ReplyDelete
  6. wonderful sumana ji its beautiful.dxbnidblog

    ReplyDelete
  7. Ah you choose the same poem as I did... how you turned this to roads of life.. a little bit of the road less travelled here too.. great tribute.

    ReplyDelete
  8. beautifully penned Sumana.

    ReplyDelete
  9. This is lovely - great title, then the crystal children...your Frost lines finish it off to perfection.

    ReplyDelete
  10. It is very difficult to be a child today--any day. Thanks, Sumana. k.

    ReplyDelete
  11. This really opened up a lot of thoughts to me...A very lovely poem!

    ReplyDelete
  12. This really opened up a lot of thoughts to me in my head, a really great poem!

    ReplyDelete
  13. You have portrayed the lives of many of today's children very strongly. I tend to think that a lot of parents put pressure on their children and forget to teach kindness on the way. Effective use of repetition at the end!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Sumana, you have used the Frost idea to perfection! And I love the rhythm of your poem as well!

    ReplyDelete
  15. You've captured the loneliness of driven children so well. 'Solitary Travelers, indeed.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Sumana,

    You have captured the essence of poor children driven by the desires of over ambitious parents/guardians. A tough life to simply return glories upon those you are driving the direction. Poor children without a moment to be childlike....

    ReplyDelete
  17. Crystal children glitter is a beautiful opening line. The whole poem, actually, is an exquisite allegory for how children (some children more than others) are made to strive and, really, not have much of a childhood, at all.

    ReplyDelete
  18. I think children should be allowed to dream their own dreams..traveling a long road at such a young age is hard. The ending worked perfectly.

    ReplyDelete
  19. the opening line and the final refrain are perfect and frame the stanza in between. WEll done

    ReplyDelete
  20. Children having to be too tough too soon is heartbreaking. Great theme and twist on Frost.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Your complex subject fits the tone and all of Frost's poem, the balance of wanting to stop, wanting to go on to be the best we can be. It takes a special kind of child to welcome such pressure and take up the challenge. Too few succeed.

    ReplyDelete
  22. Your crystal children made me think of the indigo children...knowing/experiencing much before their time...thought-provoking.

    ReplyDelete
  23. So much a child has to go through to reacj their goal... Sometimes set up by themselves... Sometimes by peers. Beautiful write. Loved the intensity of the poem.

    ReplyDelete
  24. You have applied Frost's original form to your own poem very convincingly, with a tip of the hat to him in your final stanza.

    ReplyDelete
  25. Beautifully penned as always Sumana, I really liked the repetition at the end...smiles

    ReplyDelete
  26. what a beautiful poem, i love how well it flowed!

    exceptional!

    stacy lynn mar
    http://warningthestars.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  27. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  28. Nice rhythm and touching subject...the last stanza is a great tribute to Robert Frost :-)

    P.S. Deleted my previous comment for some typo errors..

    ReplyDelete
  29. Pick a line from Robert Frost and go. The "miles to go" is probably his favorite line with me. Wish I had written for this.

    Now, here I see two different groups seeing the same 'children' going through life. Some see the hardships and can emphasize with them, the others see them as being 'born with a silver spoon' with everything being given to them.

    Only those who know a person can really see the true 'travelers'. Nice write, Roy. :)
    ..

    ReplyDelete
  30. This is beautiful, and so profoundly sad.

    ReplyDelete
  31. This is such a lovely write.

    ReplyDelete
  32. It's been many years, but I still remember the first time I laid eyes on the Queensland bottle tree. Beauty dark, beauty deep.

    ReplyDelete



Thank you for stopping by and sharing your valuable thoughts.........