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The Daily Practice of Fearless Diving

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The diving board is wide awake, bouncing with anticipation
The diver’s body shakes in a helpless weep:
Reality is too high! Demands are too deep!
Tough Time pushes her off – enough procrastination!

The courage and grace of the leap
improve as I’m getting older.
I’ll know I’m ready and composed
enough to die
when I can throw myself from sleep
into Today - backwards with eyes closed
head first no cry.
And no peaking over the shoulder

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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA BCDEBDEC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 434
Words 78
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 8
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My poems are a new, unexpected and slighlty disturbing by-product of my therapy. Making them available for people to read and review was the next frightening step, but the feedback and generous words were absolutely amazing - thank you all - so maybe I will continue... :) It is a priviledge to be a part of the community with so much imagination and talent. I love reading poems and reviews..., such an interesting portrait of our egos :) May we all enjoy endless waves of inspiration and fun. more…

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