"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Enjoy the 20th day of National Poetry Month with this good ol' classic by Mr. Frost. If you're not familiar with it, then you must not have gone to public high school...

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;

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 kept 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.

Found at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15717

"How To Be Alone" by Tanya Davis

In honor of National Poetry Month, please take a moment to revel in aloneness and find comfort in the company of a poem. Listen to the voice of the poet and let her words give way to your own poetic voice. Spend time reading (or listening) and re-reading (or re-listening) to this poem or any poem but let yourself be inspired today. After all, isn't that what poetry is all about?

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!

Oh my goodness gracious!!! Where in the world has the time gone? Not only have I been a terrible blog mother but I didn't even properly usher in only the best month for any poetry blogger- National Poetry Month! But now that we're all on the same page, please tell everyone you know to read a poem and celebrate!
Now I feel terrible about being absent so long so the best peace offering I can think to give you is a poem.  To get things kicked off right, let's start with one of my favorites. Enjoy!