the road less travelled

7 August, 2018

What does this picture tell you? A lone traveller on a deserted road? A path where the flora towers over mankind? Are we are mere inconspicuous beings?

For me, this photo not just brought back memories of my awe-inspiring walk on the lone road, at Balur, Chikmagalur, South India; but also conjured up a medley of words in my minds eye, by my two favourite poets, Rumi and Robert Frost.  

“Beyond right doings and wrong doings there’s a field, I shall meet you?” “Or two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less travelled.”

 I am also glad to be able to share these two evocative pieces, that have adorned my being, for many many moons.

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing
 and
right doing there is a field.
I'll meet 
you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass 
the world is too full to talk about.

 Ideas, language and the phrase 

"each other"
doesn't make sense anymore."

-Rumi

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.

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