Tuesday, January 15, 2019

THE CLIMB

Tuesday Poetics and our challenge is
to write confessional poetry.  I fall
short of the eloquence of others here;
nonetheless, my heart speaks.
Submitted to dVerse
January 15, 2019
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Once I stood atop the mountain
Mistress of all I surveyed
How sweet to survey my kingdom
It seemed I’d so dearly paid.

But I slipped from the promontory
Which it seemed I had only just gained
And I found I stood in the valley
With the mountain before me again

I vowed I would conquer the mountain
It seemed I’d climbed time after time
And, grasping familiar handholds,
Once more I began to climb.

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Digital art is my own.


12 comments:

  1. I admire your determination to begin to climb again. Those familiar handholds are a great support Bev.

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  2. beautiful digital art. your poem speaks to lessons and toil. glad that the handholds are at least familiar when you start climbing again...

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  3. Very nice Beverly. Those mountains keep on rising higher the more we climb.! The view from the top is of the Valley you will soon be back in... So true!

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  4. Those moments, just before the fall, when all feels victorious - well written.

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  5. Life is a series of mountains and valleys it seems...and I think you were more eloquent than I :)

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  6. Life is quite a Sisyphean journey. It's admirable to have that determination to climb again and yet again. The familiar handholds shall help us along. Well penned! :-)

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  7. I admire your determination which shines clearly through your verse!

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  8. Somehow life can seem Sisyphean... but climbing or pushing a stone uphill seems to be what life is all about...

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  9. Keep trying. There are those moments at the top.

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  10. the strength to climb again is admirable ~

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  11. Will and determination is what keeps us going! Life is all about that 'Climb'

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