Monday, May 14, 2012

The Road Not Taken

Drat!  I missed Poetry Month in April.  While I am not the biggest poetry fan, I did want to post my favorite poem. A reflection on taking the road less traveled.  Enjoy!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

                - Robert Frost


2 comments:

Frank C. said...

One of my all time favs. That and Stopping in the Woods... You know, I read the collected works to Alex for bedtime stories when he was about 6 or 7. He rather enjoyed it.

Sandi said...

Frost is by far my favorite poet. Stopping by the Woods is such a beautiful poem!! Glad you started Alex young with poetry. I think it helps with the appreciation of it