Saturday, October 31, 2020

STAIRCASE TO SOMEWHERE

It's Sunday Muse #132 and our photo
 of inspiration this week is a stairway 
that seems to lead to a mystery 
destination shrouded in the woods. 
Submitted October 31, 2020 
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I came upon a battered stair
which seemed to lead I knew not where.

Who felled the trees to make each step
to build the stair to dreams they kept?

Who climbed the stairs to a destination
left now only to my imagination?

Only the steps remain, all else is gone
No clue to dreams or battles won.

I can only salute as I pass by
the anonymous builder, and wonder

Why?

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A revised version of an earlier poem.
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12 comments:

  1. HelenOctober 31, 2020 at 9:45 AM

    ... mysteries, dreams, battles, imagination. Deserving of your salute.

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  2. Carrie Van HornOctober 31, 2020 at 11:32 AM

    Yes there is a mystery within this image indeed, and you have captured it beautifully Beverly!

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    1. indybevNovember 1, 2020 at 9:12 AM

      Thanks, Carrie. Such images always leave me wanting to know "the rest of the story!"

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  3. JimOctober 31, 2020 at 12:32 PM

    Perfect, Beverly. I also wonder why, who, when, and where now. I didn't see the steps, just shiny lines on my smart phone last night. On Mrs. Jim's computer better display I see the steps easily. But I won't change now.
    ..

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  4. kaykualaNovember 1, 2020 at 1:09 AM

    I can only salute as I pass by
    the anonymous builder, and wonder
    Why?

    Must have persisted for a long time with the overgrown jungle. Wonderful rhyming Bev!

    Hank

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  5. Gillena CoxNovember 1, 2020 at 6:28 AM

    Salute indeed
    Happy Sunday Bev

    Much💙love

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  6. C. SandlinNovember 1, 2020 at 7:35 AM

    Oh this is wonderful! A mysterious reminder of a trail is tempting.

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    1. indybevNovember 1, 2020 at 9:10 AM

      Thank you. Old stairs, abandoned houses and derelicts of yesterday leave me waxing poetic and wishing they could talk.

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  7. Sherry Blue SkyNovember 1, 2020 at 8:52 AM

    This photo and poem reminds of of stairs through a forest trail along a river that I used to walk......lovely, Bev.

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    1. indybevNovember 1, 2020 at 9:11 AM

      Thanks, Sherry. I'm glad my words took you to a happy place.

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  8. qbitNovember 1, 2020 at 5:25 PM

    You open a stairwell to possibility!

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  9. purplepeninportland.comNovember 4, 2020 at 12:42 PM

    This is unique, Bev. It is a mystery not meant to be solved.

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