Today is a beach day just like this photo from April, one year ago. We covered more ground this weekend in the East Bay. We explored a few neighborhoods on foot and I have a blister on my baby toe to prove it! If anyone knows good areas in Oakland to consider buying a home, let me know.
Are you familiar with the poet Sage Cohen? My commute read is her new book "Writing The Life Poetic - An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry" which I love. The layout of the book is aesthetically pleasing, includes some color illustrations, famous poets, lots of ideas and exercises to try, and the chapters are very short.
So until I write a new poem, here's a classic by Robert Frost:
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 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.
1 comment:
Hi Andrea,
So glad to hear that you're enjoying my book! Come and visit at the blog sometime and share what you're writing, thinking, feeling along the way.
Yours in poetry,
Sage
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