Tuesday, April 9, 2013

CALLING ALL POETS

April, we hope you know, is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. What are your plans? How do you celebrate poetry in your life? Do you read your favorite poets? Do you HAVE a favorite poet or poem?
Do you WRITE poetry yourself? Would you like to see it published?
If YOU are a poet, submit one of your poems by email to goffmanteacher@gmail.com. Put POEM FOR BLOG in the subject line, and be sure to sign your name, plus your grade. We will be happy to publish student poetry this month -- and any month.
Here is a favorite poem by Robert Frost to get you started.




The Road Not TakenRobert Frost (1920) 

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.



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