The Telephone

"When I was just as far as I could walk from here today
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say-
You spoke from that flower on the windowsill-
Do you remember what it was you said?"
"First tell what it was you thought you heard."
"Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head,
And holding by the stalk,I listened
and I thought I caught the word-What was it?
Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say-
Someone said, 'Come'- I heard it as I bowed."
"I may have thought as much, but not aloud."
"Well, so I came."- Robert Frost (1916)


I love this poem. The man wants to apologize to the woman he loves for something he said.. but he doesn't want to come right out and say it. He uses a flower to apologize to her. Of course, she isn't all innocent and most likely said her own choice of words. It's reconciliation. I love it!