Friday, April 18, 2008

A Little Poetry

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
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.

1 comment:

Kari said...

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.