Roads Not Taken – Preamble

I was asked to write about
my many roads not taken,
the notion seems quite absurd,
because for every road I took
many dozen were overlooked.
You may contemplate one,
but what happens next?
Each fork spawns another
(and another and another).
If you grasp exponential math,
then you know what I mean,
counting roads not taken
produces numbers quite extreme.

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Linked to Day Two of NaPoWriMo 21 – “The Road Not Taken” (NaPoWriMo = National Poetry Writing Month)

Linked to SammiScribbles Weekend Writing Prompt #203 — “Absurd” where this weekend the challenge is to write a poem of exactly 61 words.

Image credit: Image by Erika Varga from Pixabay

8 thoughts on “Roads Not Taken – Preamble”

  1. I looked up ‘exponential math’ and nearly had to go and lie down in a darkened room! I certainly see what you mean. And it’s neatly expressed in your poem. Nice one.

  2. Dear Ron,

    I barely scraped by in basic arithmetic. 😉 At any rate, aside from the exponential math, there are many roads we and Robert Frost haven’t taken, aren’t there? Well done.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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