The Fork in the Road. (Poetry).The Fork in the Road Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not. When you come to a fork in the road, take it, Robert Frost and Yogi Berra said. I should have stood in bed, my old art teacher on more than one occasion sighed wearily, shaking his white head. Who knows why? Simply that he felt old (how much older than I feel today?)? You can't always have everything, but sometimes you can have nothing, my husband said. I missed the boat, said someone (who?), but all the boats I missed sank years ago. What's hard (this much I've learned) is easy; what's easy hard. Two roads diverged in a yellow. Worlds of wan- wood leaf- meal; older; come to such sights colder. I am not afraid, and yet I do not feel safe. Two roads diverged. Sorry. Come to a fork and take it or else stay in bed. I stood in bed. I missed the boat. It sank, and yet I'm not afraid. You can't have everything. What's hard seems easy, or you may have nothing. No news is good news five words I understood, or thought I did. Who wouldn't? But two roads diverged. Translated into Modern Greek, they read The news is never good. The news is never good? Agreed, said the sage as he shook his grey locks. I should have stood in bed, he said, although I do not feel afraid. Sorry I could not travel. Death sat with his laptop in a dim corner of the enormous lobby, quietly tabulating our comings and goings in the gloom. Outside bright daylight. Yellow wood, wanwood, leafmeal through which we came to the elevator, and one by one Death ticked us off and we got in, far from safe but not afraid. Hard is easy, easy hard. Give all; get nothing in return if you're lucky. The boats have sunk. Take the fork in the yellow brick road toward the golden wood. Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas (November 8, 1948 − ) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Biography The daughter of noted Columbia University classicist Moses Hadas and Latin teacher Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas, Hadas was raised in Morningside Heights, New York is Board of Governors Professor of English 1. English - (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favourite programming language is at the Newark Newark, cities, United States Newark. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,861), Alameda co., W Calif., on the east side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1955. campus of Rutgers University Rutgers University, main campus at New Brunswick, N.J.; land-grant and state supported; coeducational except for Douglass College; chartered 1766 as Queen's College, opened 1771. Campuses and Facilities Rutgers maintains three campuses. . The most recent of her many books of poems This is a list of poems that have a page about them in Wikipedia. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
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