From this vantage point,
looking up, like looking back.
Contours evident.
Cracks, crevices, smooth edges,
veins streak across surface.
Planar sedimentary laminations
mark periods of sustained times.
Strength, resilience,
past layered upon past,
weathered but still tall.
Pulpit Rock in Norway
metaphor for life.
Written for dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe. Today we’re asked to write a Quadrille (poem of exactly 44 words, sans title) that includes the word “contour.” Will also use this poem for the first day of NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, where the challenge is to post a poem every day in April!
Photo taken two years ago, on a Celebrity cruise where we visited Norway and took a boat trip down the Lysefjord and saw Pulpit Rock.
lillian the home poet 
This is beautiful, Lillian! I hope you had a Happy Easter.🩵
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What a beautifully crafted rock – and quadrille!
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Nice quadrille and great picture.
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How magnificent this stone person is. It almost looks like every so often on the way up there are evaporation lines, like the water line used to be there. We fade into insignificance next to it, yet here we stand. Wonderful conclusion in your last line and agree with it. Lillian did you feel any energy emanating from it?
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The contour of rocks and rock layers is most fascinating. Well done.
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I do love a craggy cliff, Lill, and this one is well and truly craggy! I love the details in:
‘Cracks, crevices, smooth edges,
veins streak across surface.
Planar sedimentary laminations
mark periods of sustained times.’
It is indeed a metaphor for life.
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Your words do justice to this awesome rock! Love it, Lillian.
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The layers of the rock are excellent metaphor for life.
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Most definitely a metaphor for life … we have an overabundance of them in Central Oregon. Cheers to you on this fine April Day, Lillian.
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Great poem, Lillian. That’s an impressive cliff, and it made for an interesting metaphor.
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A wondrous rock and an apt metaphor, Lillian!
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An excellent metaphor for life indeed, Lill. A wondrous quadrille. I see having a geologist for a husband wears off. 😀
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Fan~friggin’~tastic, Lillian ❤
And a photo to boot!
~David
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A sense of the past promising a future yet.
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