CREATIVE SPARK #16: Way Leads onto Way

American Poet Robert Frost (1874-1963)had a way with words. In "The Road Not Taken," Frost talks about one wanderer's journey to explore. In a Penguin 60th Anniversary edition of his poetry, I read again this lovely poem.

Every time I come across a new path, I want to forge a trail, to explore to new territories I haven't yet seen. As Frost said of his traveler choosing between two paths:

"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 . . . "

To find out more about Robert Frost's journeys, ask your favorite librarian to help you discover volumes of his work.

Take a path you don't usually travel today. What did you discover?