Extended Metaphor Poem 3/12/15

"The Sport not Played"

Parody of "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost

3/15/15

Basketball and baseball diverged on a playing field,

And sorry I could not play both

And be one athlete, long I kneeled

And looked down one as far as it appealed;

To where the fence bent and stopped its growth;

Then picked the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted dare;

Though as for that the playing there

Had dared them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In game no steps had came back.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how game leads on to game,

I doubted if I would ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere months and months hence:

Two sports diverged on a field, And I -

I took the one less played by,

And that has made all the difference.