My Favourite Poetries !! How I wish I had written them !! Wishful thinking !!

The Road Less Travelled

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 onto 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 took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference!


Why does Robert Frost’s famous poem find a special mention in my meditative spit?


All of Robert Frost's poems can be found in this exceptional book, The Collected Poems.

"The Road Not Taken" is my favourite poem . This timeless classic has stayed my favourite through all my phases of life ! : This traveller faced with an important conscious decision, chose the least popular road, the path of most resistance. He was destined to go down one, sad at not being able to take both, sacrificed the popular one for the other not taken quite often .

Ultimately, the brilliant poet leaves the readers to make up their own mind about the emotional state of the traveller at the end. Was the choice of the road less travelled a fruitful one? It certainly made "all the difference," but Frost does not make it clear just what this difference is and leaves the readers speculating -to each his or her own ❤️

On My Volcano Grows the Grass

By Emily Dickinson

On my volcano grows the grass,
A meditative spot,
An area for a bird to choose
Would be the general thought.

How red the fire reeks below,
How insecure the sod—
Did I disclose, would populate
With awe my solitude !

Why does Emily Dickinson’s  poem find a special mention in my meditativespot?

This photograph is a throwback  from my first Kashmir trip .

Looking at the lush green, neatly pruned green valley , I thought , it was an area birds would easily choose ! I dwell in possibilities is what Dickinson would say !  

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