29 September 2013

Step So High




Use your stilts to step so high-
to the moon, to the sky,
and plug your lights
into the moon to shine them bright
anytime of day or night.

Wear your gown, fix your hair
climb something taller than a chair,
capture light from nature's moon
so its not gone quite so soon
and all can use it to swoon or spoon.

Women do this, girls can too.
Maybe, one day, even you.
Set your goals high, lofty as the sky
so if you should fail you'll still fly
to places few will go but you'll know why.


For Claudia at dVerse Poets Pub who had us writing to the artwork of Catrin Welz-Stein. This piece of hers, Where the Starlight Begins, seems the perfect illustration for a children's book which inspired this poem.

24 comments:

  1. i love the encouragement in this...to set those goals and get after them...not to limit yourself by who you are but by what you can be...

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    1. I was thinking of my grands but I guess it's good for all of us.

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  2. oh i like the setting the goals high...the being brave and step out into the unknown... such great encouragement in this

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    1. This was a fun prompt and great art work, Claudia. Thanks.

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  3. I like the way you used this picture to write about setting one's sights high! Excellent advice for a young person for sure.

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    1. It was your poem that made me want to write it to the young ones.

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  4. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Yes, we should be brave...:)

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    1. Especially when plugging our lights into the moon!

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  5. Such a very sweet poem---it makes me think of Dr. Seuss - the places that you'll go - Just lovely. Thanks much. K.

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  6. Love that picture! And of course I resonated with that poem, filled with images of flight :-)

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    1. You take this literally with your skydiving! But even figuratively it takes courage.

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  7. Oh yes set your goals high and touch the moon...lovely interpretation!

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  8. A wonderful poem and picture; of course I thought of my grandchildren (and yours) when I read it. And just yesterday our daughter posted on Facebook a photo of the grands climbing a wall at one of those indoor climbing places. Definitely higher than a chair!

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    1. My grands climbed such a wall in Orlando this summer. It's not easy! Thanks for stopping by and give hugs to your two.

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  9. Encouraging I thought esp. to young people.

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  10. plug into the moon...

    and we would if we could! :) Very sweet imagery.

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  11. Beautiful picture and wonderful poem...

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    1. I do love that picture. Thanks for stopping by.

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