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Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” is my inspiration for today’s prompt Overcoming.
In human world everyone is trying to make a life for themselves through ease or difficulties with lightheartedness or resilience and determination. It’s a journey of perseverance, of facing challenges head on, embracing the opportunities for growth and in the end there is a self-discovery.
It works in the same way in the nature-world too: surviving and thriving is the motto. In fact here it’s a display of showing remarkable ability to overcome challenges. A beloved aquarium fish, the goldfish would always find a way to survive. You will never find it content; always hungry, always eating, continually growing, not caring a fig for the adverse conditions, using everything as an opportunity to grow. It knows the mantra to survive and thrive.
Your challenge is to write a poem celebrating triumph whether it’s seen in our human world or if it’s about your own world /life or if it’s about something seen in nature. It might even be about the goldfish or any incredible life-form that survive extreme conditions.
Sharing a few poems now :
by
Danez Smith
by Elise Paschen
by
Maya Angelou
Please link one poem that is your response to the
material of this prompt. When you link your poem please visit other links in
the spirit of the community
