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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>No Rhyme Forsaken - Verse Rose versus Prose Curse - after Robert Frost</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two ways diverge on a virgin page<br>and happy not to travel both <br>as rhyme unraveller, briefly gauge, <br>look down on prose rants' spirit cage <br>pedestrian prose earns uncouth oath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Discarding 'free verse' - rarely fair -<br>that freedom claim, formless but lame, <br>over prose I chose verse dainty where<br>few find fine lines simple, care <br>for 'worn out rhyme-schemes', won't play game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fate winks, linked fingers, beckoning, weigh<br>book leaves as yet un-inked in black, <br>one asks those self-styled bards today <br>if they'll be heard tomorrow. May <br>be - we doubt - they're on right track. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I won't be telling this with a sigh <br>as Time turns wheel, some ages hence<br>two roads could crisscross, would defy <br>current cacophony. One less travelled by <br>would make linguistic difference! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The road not taken Robert Frost<br>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, <br>And sorry I could not travel both <br>And be one traveler, long I stood <br>And looked down one as far as I could <br>To where it bent in the undergrowth; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then took the other, as just as fair, <br>And having perhaps the better claim, <br>Because it was grassy and wanted wear; <br>Though as for that the passing there <br>Had worn them really about the same, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And both that morning equally lay <br>In leaves no step had trodden black. <br>Oh, I kept the first for another day! <br>Yet knowing how way leads on to way, <br>I doubted if I should ever come back. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall be telling this with a sigh <br>Somewhere ages and ages hence: <br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, <br>I took the one less traveled by, <br>And that has made all the difference. <br>Self-Parody written 1916 Mountain Interval</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Love not taken <br>Committed to one, she wanted both<br>And, mulling it over, long she stood, <br>Alone on the road, loath<br>To leave, wanting to hide in the undergrowth, <br>This new guy, smooth as a yellow wood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Really turned her on. she like dhis hair, <br>his smile. But the other, Jack, had a claim<br>On her already and she had to admit, he did wear<br>Well. In fact, to be perfectly fair, <br>he understood her. His long, lithe frame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beside hers in the evening tenderly lay.<br>Still, if this blond guy dropped by someday, <br>Couldn't way just lead on to way? <br>No. For if way led on and Jack<br>Found out, she doubted if he would ever come back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, she turned with a sigh.<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence, <br>She might be telling tis. 'And I -<br>She would say, 'stood faithfully by.'<br>But by then who would know the difference? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With that in mind, she took the fast way home, <br>the road by the pond, and phoned the blond.<br>1984 from Light Year 85 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Boyfriend not taken<br>Two men before my eyes did stand, <br>And angry I could but marry one.<br>Each came from a far different land, <br>Both seemed quite equally as grand.<br>Trying for the other to be outdone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One a mere robot machine, <br>Hard and cold as tempered steel.<br>The other dead for years thirteen.<br>The man was but a zombie being, <br>Searching for brains to be his meal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The robot's heart was cold as ice.<br>The zombie's skin the same.<br>I preferred the one who was so nice.<br>The heartless one would pay the price.<br>The robot to go home in shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The zombie I picked as my guy.<br>The robot, heartless, would soon mend.<br>Two men before my eyes did stand and I-<br>I picked the zombie with a sigh, <br>For zombies make better boyfriends.<br>Adriana Hillary</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two roads diverged M Leblanc<br>Two roads diverged in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Wood<br>and sorry I could not travel both<br>And be one traveller, long I stood<br>and looked down one as far as I could<br>until I spied a pile of donuts; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then took the other, much less fair, <br>because I want to Eat Right And Exercise<br>and because I saw the ooga-booga obesity crisis; <br>but the weight of the travellers there<br>had worn them really about the same, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And both that morning equally lay<br>in leaves no feet had trodden with sugar.<br>Oh, I kept the first for commercials about chocolate! <br>Yet knowing how chocolate leads to diabetes and eternal misery, <br>I doubted if I should ever come back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence: <br>Two roads diverged in the chocolate factory, and I, <br>I took the one with no donuts, <br>and now I am a Paragon of Maidenly Virtue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The road less travelled Bob McKenty<br>My marriage has unravelled<br>Because of Robert Frost.<br>When I take the road less travelled<br>My wife insists I'm lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tainted Mary Ann King<br>You know the road less taken<br>Is one best left alone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the joys you feel are skewed<br>You need the bite, the spice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To self-destruct in a flicker<br>Of flame, of pain, of lust</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your vampire teeth wait hidden<br>Beneath a rosebud mouth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Temperance no longer an option<br>Sweet sleep-nightmares you cherish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honey is too cloying-<br>You'll take yours with some lemon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a love too pure<br>And stinking of heaven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will be passed by.<br>For your love has a darker side</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You seek the soft underbelly of life<br>Most people avoid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Untainted<br>Although the road least taken <br>is one best left alone<br>when true h[e]art feels forsaken, <br>cut feelings, to the bone.<br>Although when skewed, mistaken, <br>joys curdle, grief is sown, <br>with challenge undertaken<br>who'd spice or bite bemoan? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why self-destruct? no flicker<br>no flame, no pain, remain, <br>and lust unlucked fades quicker<br>than light, shan't rise again.<br>Teeth vampire? What is sicker<br>than blood turned muddy drain? <br>What worth if rosebud liquor<br>returns to earth dull brain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave nightmares and awaken<br>from fears which turn to stone.<br>If not save face, save bacon, <br>for you there waits true throne! <br>Honey, with faith unshaken, <br>to lemon tears too prone, <br>find new way which, when taken, <br>mind light leaves, dark unknown! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(16 March 2005)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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and happy not to travel both 
as rhyme unraveller, briefly gauge, 
look down on prose rants' spirit cage 
pedestrian prose earns uncouth oath.

Discarding 'free verse' - rarely fair -
that freedom claim, formless ..."></div>
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