Friday, January 1, 2010

Emily & Robert and I wish for you:

I wish for a year of choices and change. For hearts filled with love and joy. Mostly, I hope you look to your unique journey filled with hope. Hope by Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. 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.

2 comments:

Widow_Lady302 said...

Wonderful choices in poetry. I have been a long time fan of Emily. The only poem of hers that ever bothered me was the "funeral in my brain" poem. That was until I went through a journey that felt like a funeral in my brain, and it became special to me. Looking forward to reading more of your blog

Vanessa said...

ok, now i have a Simon and Garfunkel song in my head..it's called The Dangling Conversation and the second verse starts..."and you read your Emily Dickinson, and i my Robert Frost."