Thursday, February 8, 2018

A pretty face was envisaged as of good assets

                                                                                                   Author: Alvesgaspar
Image:  Granite stairway in the
Castle of Monsanto, Portugal (here)

A stairway was seen as a visual challenge
The way up would engage on many perspectives
Touching on lots of nerves way up to heaven
Audacity of back-stabbing even among cronies

Where one was perceived as a stumbling block
Targetted as easy meat by those ambitious elements
Walking dead could be the balance expected
Staying alive would draw on having good friends

A pretty face was envisaged as of good assets
Same-sex would hardly make a difference
Culture shock before but now readily accepted
At expense of fairness and human development

The stairway towards  rightful achievements
Wound through a maze of winding permutations

Susie at Real Toad's Bits
of Inspiration  -  stairs

15 comments:

  1. "The stairway towards rightful achievements
    Wound through a maze of winding permutations" WOW!

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  2. Oh those stairs can take us so many directions, and through so questions. Nice work! Thanks so much for participating!

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  3. "The stairway towards rightful achievements"... yes that is what we must strive for!

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  4. It is most interesting what direction stairs can take you.
    Loved the write Hank.

    Yvonne.

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  5. Incredible lines very thought provoking all the way through, bravo.

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  6. The stairway to success has a lot of stumbling blocks.

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  7. I feel that the stairs are full of blind-alleys and places to stumble... but climb we must.

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  8. Luv your stone stair image. AND your poem is picture perfect luv the metaphor of stairway and striving

    Much💚love

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  9. I like that stairway towards rightful achievements, Hank. I hope people in government can find it soon.

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  10. Sure a tough stairway to climb. There are many out there that one could consider back stabbers.

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  11. Stairways are necessary to climb. Whatever, it is envisioned to be better "u[ there" than what the person has or had below. Similar to grass being greener on the other side.
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  12. Stairs are a good analogy for hard work for success doesn't come easy.

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  13. An apt image and a philosophical poem, Hank! I love the alternative way of looking at stairs as a visual challenge, although at my age they are becoming a physical challenge, which I hope will lead towards rightful achievements!

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  14. Stairways are a great metaphor of life and striving. Ever upwards and guard your back.

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  15. I love 'stairway of visual challenge' and climbing up toward 'rightful achievements.'
    We all stumble along the way, yet keep going. Great work, Hank!

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