You look down on me without realizing
Your strength and beauty perfectly balanced
From your perch
A perpendicular perspective
Your artist eyes watching
My plateaued trajectory
You don’t realize your wings are ready
To feel the air and lift
An arrow at the end of your line
Infinite, vertical
Do not continue to look down
My line ends in a point
Flatlined living
Look up with your artist eyes
And imagine, create
Look up with your eagle eyes
And focus, achieve
The scale has shifted
I look up at you and realize
You’re strength and beauty perfectly balanced
For the visually challenged reader, this image shows a bald eagle sitting in the bare branches of a tree. It is looking down at the camera
Hello! Hello! It’s been a while – over a month (yikes!) since I’ve last posted. I’ve been busy – and I’m excited to tell you with what – but first, I’m catching up…well, you know, catching up in my usual “late to the party” way…is there any other way? (cue eye-roll and self-deprecating facetiousness)
Three things inspired me with this poem. First, was this adorable picture from Sadje’s What do you see #73. I missed the deadline to be included in her round up, but you can read all the other wonderful submissions here. Second, was Patrick’s Pic and a Word Challenge #268 – Scale and #269 – Perpendicular. Now, I have been a long time fan of Patrick’s challenges and am actually on a streak. Being the “competitive” person that I am, I will have to go back and complete the other challenges because there are no breaks when streaking!
Third, and probably the most meaningful inspiration for this poem is my older daughter who just self-published her first book at the tender age of 12! Yes – my daughter has published her own book before I have! At an age when I was consumed with awkwardness and other growing pains, my daughter has the self-confidence, the motivation, and the perseverance to spend this past pandemic year writing a book and designing and creating the cover art. She even did all the research for how she can self-publish it.
If you can’t tell, I am very proud of her and very much in awe of her accomplishment.
You can find her book on Amazon. She joins the ranks of other esteemed writers on WP such as Mich (see her book here) and Ivor (see his books here and here) and Chris (see one of her many books here).
©️ 2021 iido
