Yldara - A Glimpse at Poetry & Life

Curious Mount Serenity

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Words are frail in comparison
to your rugged, jagged slopes
Tumbling without a pattern
this way and that-a-way too

Your summit defies reason
(gravity quit a long time ago)
An off the wall venture
of a purpose driven world

Still, you outright puzzle
to no foreseeable end
all who try to divine
just what you are about

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Author’s Comments:

I wrote this partly light-hearted poem, thinking I could describe a fictional mountain that embodied certain truths and perceptions that we all face. Whether it has manifested itself in our day to day struggle or happened just once, many of us have at one point, met something that seems insurmountable and tried to figure it out all by ourselves.

Truth is, we just cannot do it by our lonesome selves. We need help. Help that comes from friends, family, neighbors, nature, scripture –all, pointing to God’s handiwork.

We, of course, may not like the sort of help, solution or answer He gives us, but with that same answer comes a sense of Peace. And when one really reflects on it, that peace, is profound and always filled with grace, love and mercy.

A peace that surpasses all understanding, AMEN.

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