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Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you for sharing, dear @Mirage 💛

Mirage's avatar

My pleasure 😊

Aaliya's avatar

Beautiful, inspiring and powerful ♥️

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you Aaliya! ❤️

Meg Floss's avatar

Lovely! Thank you

Roger Browne's avatar

I'm ... waiting for the rocks to break my fall? clutching, at air? oh. my.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Hehe! Thanks Roger!

I’m sending the St Bernard!

AsukaHotaru's avatar

I was not ready for the rocks having their own warning..!

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

hehe! Thanks Asuka!

Sarah Baker's avatar

Love mountain poetry. I like how it feels like the the breaths you take as you near the summit and wonder if you can before you do.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you so much Sarah! I think i’m falling “up” into it too! ♥️

Robert's avatar

Mark, Im a climber out of hell and you just gave me hope in a fair mountain heaven ark of gilded gold and fuck the world.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you so much Robert. Glad you liked it!

Good Witch Poetries's avatar

Good one!!

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you, GWP! 💛

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

There is a point where what is being crossed no longer asks to be explained, but only to be sustained until breath is not yet possible. It is not the ascent that moves, but something that keeps pressing until every reference falls away, and right there, where there is no support left, something holds without appearing, as if the limit were not a boundary but a threshold that opens only when there is nothing left to control.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you Antonio. That’s a close reading. Whilst the piece starts off with a climb, it’s not about climbing, as you have caught.