My favorite Poem:
My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost and published in 1916. This work spoke to me immediately upon hearing it for the first time.
The year was 1985 and I was fourteen. I had some free time so I wondered into my middle school library. I started browsing through some vinyl albums when I happened across one titled The Road Not Taken. I had never been interested in poetry but I decided to give it a listen.
The album was Mr. Frost reciting some of his work and the title cut moved me. I read somewhere that Robert wrote this poem for a friend of his that went to serve in World War I. The work is so vivid that if you close your eyes, you can picture the scene before the end of verse one.
The poem talks about a fork in the road and the direction you decide to go. For me, this was the decision of life and the path I wanted to travel. In life, there comes a time when you must decide whether you want to be a sheep or a shepherd.
I decided when I first heard this poem I wanted to go my own way. Society dictates the way people are supposed to travel. The norm as depicted by convention leads people down a road well traveled, while a few soles take the less beaten path and forge their own destinies.
The Road Not Taken or the path of life less traveled may be a tuff way to go but the rewards for creating your own path are far more fulfilling. You can exist as part of the norm and maybe you find your-self happy and fulfilled but that isn’t the case for me.
If you take anything from this, I hope it is the fact that no-matter what road you travel, it should be your decision and yours alone.
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Kraig Dafoe was born in Potsdam, New York and grew up in Canton. He played high school football and joined the United States Army Reserves at the age of seventeen.
Kraig married at the age of nineteen and moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia where he worked as a Private Security officer for The Christian Broadcasting Network and also attended theTidewater Community College for business.
After five years as a security officer, he became a Deputy Sheriff for the city of Chesapeake Virginia.
Kraig left the Sheriff’s office after nine years of service and pursued a couple of different business opportunities before he went on to publishing his debut novel.
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Search for the Lost Realm is an epic journey in which a young man named Varan wants to find a power which has been missing from the world of Kantania for thousands of years.
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From demons to dragons and sorcerers to soldiers, battles erupt and Varan must hurry or the world could be lost to darkness forever.
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