My high school cheerleading coach Jill Hunt has a fantastic blog and yesterday she did a post on poetry.  I guess it was poem in your pocket day.  I wanted to share my favorite poem and also thank my Mom for passing this poem on to me.  I can relate to this poem and I love the message that it conveys. 
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
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      |   |   | 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; |         5 |   |   |    | 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, |         10 |   |   |    | And both that morning equally lay |  |   | In leaves no step had trodden black. |  |   | Oh, I kept the first for another day! |  |   | Yet knowing how way leads on to way, |  |   | I doubted if I should ever come back. |         15 |   |   |    | 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. |    | 
 
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Here's one of my favorites.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening... By Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me standing here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bell a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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