What About The Other Road?

by

Jack Francis


One could do worse than be a weaver of words
Words that break and make the rules
A life sentence in every stanza
A world of difference in a single poem

For
Had the road less traveled not been taken
The desert places all forsaken
The mending wall not mending way
The ocean lacking his special spray

Or
The small design so big not drawn
Fire and ice undesired at dawn
Nature's first, green, not gold
Birches left unswung, unbold

Then
The other road to a poorer world untold
Robert Frost unsung