NP Day, part II

In recognition of today's poetry theme, I thought I'd share one of my favourite poems. My choice, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, is quite a well known poem, and is definitely one of the best. It's also one of the first poems that I ever really took to, and has gone on to inspire and influence my whole approach to poetry and writing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And stared 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 foot had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the forst for another day!

But knowing as 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