Kilimanjaro

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By Florian

Fri, 12 Jul 2024
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7 comments
 

In the ice fields high above,

cold, remote, like fading love,

crouching with a frozen stare,

a luckless leopard lies up there,

the scent it followed on its climb

now lost among the breeze of Time.

 

Hemingway so loved this place –

life’s dumb volcanic interface,

rising from the plain mundane,

snow mountain in the tropic rain.

In its bowels long dormant fire,

in his heart quick death desired.

 

Mountains never compromise,

show no mercy, heed no cries.

They stand above the apes and men,

as is now, and way back then,

rising where the old gods meet,

beyond redemption - and defeat.

Certificate 12
Poem
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Comments

Submitted by onemorething on

Excellent, very well done. It's our Pick of the Day. Do share it on social media. I have added a painting by Ernst Platz and it's in the public domain.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

This is our Poem of the Week! Congratulations! 

 

Submitted by marandina on

"Mountains never compromise,

show no mercy, heed no cries.

They stand above the apes and men.."

That's a highly visual, evocative piece.

(I must look up the Hemmingway reference)

Gorgeous work.

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Wonderful Florian - very well deserved cherries and poem of the week! This would be great to hear read aloud too

 

Submitted by blighters rock on

A blinking beauty of verse. Crack on

 

Submitted by Florian on

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

What a cracker - lyrical and evocative of a special place, a well deserved commendation.

Dougie Moody