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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood

hand dyed fabric, colored pencil

hand embroidery, machine appliqué, machine quilted

19-1/2 x 16-5/8"

©2011 Lisa Flowers Ross

Just in the nick of time.  I finished my piece for the text messages deadline.  It is inspired by Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken.  The poem is written all over the background.  Here is the entire poem:

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 steps had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads to way,

I doubted that 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.

So, tell me what you think- all feedback welcome (even if you don't like the piece).  Does it just look like yellow snowflakes to you?  Would you get it without the poem or the title?