Yes, I’m early, but this one just inspired this poem. Of course, I’m speaking about Madison Wood’s Friday Fictioneers. Want to join in? Then just click on this link and hop on board. Madison (who does an amazing job of managing this) has all the info there. Last week’s was so hard to come up with, but this one just spoke to me. What I wrote, while being over the 100 words asked for (128), is pretty intensely personal. I hope you enjoy.
The Conquerer
The mountain appeared vertical
Insurmountable
Yet she kept moving forward
One foot in front of the other
Trepidation filling each step
She refused to go back
There was nothing for her there
She paused on her jounrey
Amazed at how far she had come
She wasn’t the person that had started the expedition
She wasn’t the person who looked at the mountain with panic
She now placed her feet one in front of the other
No hesitation
No doubt
What she left behind was not to be missed
What lay in front was to be discovered
And when she reached the peak
She saw only more mountains to climb
She set off on her next journey
With strength, confidence and a smile
Never again the conquered
Forever the conquerer
Miss Independent 
Your poem was so good that it gave me chills up and down my spine thinking about you and your new journey. I am so happy to feel the strength surging in you. This was a fitting beginning for what I hope will be an eruption of deeply felt stories this week. Well done.
Aloha,
Doug
Thanks, Doug. It’s a beautiful picture. I’m so glad that you consented to share with us! Thank you for reading 🙂 Can’t wait to see what you came up with!
Beautiful and inspiring!
Thank you!
Early rocks!
Seriously, be early anytime!
Thanks….I try to be early everytime! 🙂
Very inspirational. Nicely done.
Here’s mine: http://thebradleychronicles.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/flash-fiction-friday-an-addiction/
Thank you. Yours was amazing. Such a terrific picture you paint with your words. I can almost hear her singing.
Your poem is such a good lesson on how to live life right. Press on, climb the mountains, learn and leave behind the past, conquer! Really good. Thanks for the lesson. lol
Thank you for reading and you’re welcome for the lesson 🙂 It’s one I’m still learning, day by day, step by step.
I must say the name of your blog made me sad. After reading your “About” I wished for you to feel, after your divorce, marriage and mothering, like a “remembered” woman, girl, daughter, friend that I’m sure you are! At least that’s what your writing reveals about you! Soldier on girl!
Thank you so much! I’m soldiering on…that’s all we can ever do!
Since making that comment I have read for the last hour at your blog. It sounds like you are! God bless.
Well, thank you!!! I’m trying, and mostly succeeding. But there are always more mountains to climb!
Aww… very nice..!
Thank you for stopping by and commenting! And thank you for the compliment!
That was beautiful and filled me with a sense of courage. Always more mountains to climb, for sure, but it does feel good to know you *can*.
Thank you! It does feel good to know you can….
Woot woot! A woman who developed strength where she hadn’t had it before. She definitely became a conquerer. Nice work. 😀
My attempt: http://unduecreativity.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/the-beautiful-hush/
Thank you! Love me some strong women! 🙂
I loved this!
Thank you so much! I appreciate you stopping by!!
That’s a wonderful motivational message, reflecting life’s odyssey and the attitude we need to surmount each challenge.
My flash fiction: http://logo-ligi.com/2012/06/01/the-standpoint/
Thank you. Yours was wonderful as well!
Forever the conquerer! Liked that. I liked how you evoked feelings of her dragging, and going on and then finally making it. Like a feel good movie of a woman on a journey…
http://writersclubkl.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/friday-fictioneers-monochrome-silence/
Thank you for your kind words! I’m glad you liked the last line. That’s my favorite as well! Your piece was amazing! So heartfelt. I hope everyone clicks on it and reads! Terrific stuff you have there!
Great poems, the narrator is telling us a story but it could also be like a mental journey.
Thank you! I never really thought about it being both ways. But you’re right – it definitely could be a physical or mental jouney. Thank you for your kind words.
It is so true what they say that every journey begins with the first step – the mountain came across as both existing in the physical plane and in the metaphorical too – and I loved the contrast between the two.
Here’s mine: http://womanontheedgeofreality.com/2012/06/01/friday-fictioneers-too-near-the-sun/
Thank you for your kind comments. Yours was very good as well!
Why thank you again 🙂
This is a motivation speech that needs to be read aloud to people embarking on something new and unknown. I want to go do something right now, except for it being 12:46 AM and all. Anyway It was very uplifting and I’m glad I blog hopped over here to read it. mine: http://remakingme-atiyatownes.blogspot.com/2012/06/friday-flash-fiction-start-day.html
Thank you! I’m heading over to yours right now!
Fabulous! It really captures the feeling of looking back and realizing how far you’ve come! http://kaitlinandmichaelbranch.com/2012/06/01/friday-fictioneers-5/
Thank you. That was the idea. It’s been a climb, but I’m happy where I am and looking forward to new challenges!
Wonderful! This poem personifies indomitable will, and I know whatever faces the conqueror, she will conquer it. Very uplifting. Thank you.
Mine is here: http://unspywriter.wordpress.com/friday-fictioneers/expendable/
Thank you for stopping by and for the kind words. I’m swinging by yours right now!
Beautiful, brave and inspirational. Well done. Mine is here:
Thank you for coming by. Can’t wait to read yours – they are always a treat!
Opps forgot to add the link: http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/fridayfictioneers-my-pilot/
Your FF story is very pretty. Good images. I like it. Life is a ‘journey’ in itself, challenges, often insurmountable. There will always be those ‘mountains’ for us to climb. Giving one another a push and prayer helps us all along on the climb when the paths are rough going. I can related to that. I think we all can. That is the figurative side of our climbs. Here in Colorado we know the literal kind too. Those too were tough climbs. My husband girls and girls have climbed our “Longs Peak”. My youngest has climbed some other ‘fourteeners’ we call them here in Colorado. But they too have known the kind of climbs like you have, with divorce. That is a tough one, I know. Take care.
Thank you so much for stopping by! I’m familiar with the fourteeners in Colorado, but have, sadly, never climbed any. Divorce is tough, but I’m on my way! New adventures on the horizon!
The name of you blog has more meaning now. You will prevail. Enjoyed your poem very much.
Thanks for reading mine!
Thank you! And yours was, as always, wonderful!
A very poetic tale of empowerment and the determination to find happiness.
Thank you. I’m finding both, one step at a time.
I like this very much. A woman empowered by the ever continuing journey.
My first try at the Fictioneer thing:http://judeayres.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/friday-fictioneers/
Yea! Another newbie! I love that! I can’t wait to read yours and than you for stopping by to read mine and for your kind comments!
great job, loved the lines “What she left behind was not to be missed
What lay in front was to be discovered”
so thought provoking!
Thsanks for coming by mine, here is the link for others:
Thank you for stopping by. Those are my favorite lines as well, as is the last one! 🙂 Thank you for commenting! And yours was amazing, as always!!
As other commentors have mentioned, this is very inspirational & motivational. There are people out there who desperately need this message. Thank you for delivering it in such poetic fashion.
Thanks for the nice comment on mine too.
http://russellgayer.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your kind comments. I truly appreciate it. Yours was a great read, as well. 🙂
I’m one of them. Thanks for the inspiration tfg! I love “with strength, confidence and a smile”- that’s how I read you 🙂
For many, climbing that first mountain is arduous enough … but then they discover it is but the first of a continuing chain and they quit, either in shame or boastful of their single accomplishment. Not you … the rest not only are a challenge, but you stoically accept them with strength, confidence and (especially telling) a smile. My stories (I wrote two) are not nearly as inspirational or uplifting, but can be found at http://scottcheck.blogspot.com/2012/06/desolation.html
Thank you so much for coming by and commenting. You’re right – and I don’t plan on quitting and you can’t rest on your laurels. Life is to be lived! Thank you for you kind words….I’m heading over to yours right now. I can’t wait! 🙂
That is how I feel when I’m exercising, which I put off as long as I can, but when I start, it is just putting one foot in front of the other. I am sure you will emerge strong and self-sufficient from your divorce transition. Then you will have to change the name of your blog!
Thank you so much! I’m already thinking of new names…I really am not the person that started this journey and I think I’ve outgrown the name! 🙂
Oh, my. This brought back a flood of unwanted memories. What a beautiful poem. Well done. I, too, went through a horrible divorce and remember using the word “insurmountable” many times. I must print this out.
You should submit this to a contest or anthology. And you will find true love again. It took me 16 years but we’ve now been married almost 11 years. Good luck to you.
Mine is here: http://banterwithbeth.blogspot.com
(total opposite of your sweet poem)
I loved yours! Totally awesome twist at the end. And thank you for the beautiful comments. Coming from someone who has been published, it means a lot! Thank you for stopping by to read and comment. I appreciate it!
A good message and nice turns of phrase throughout. Great to see the shift in perspective, in attitude, as the journey is undertaken. I did notice it spelled ‘jounrey’ in that 8th line, but that’s an easy fix. Great job!
Brian (thanks for your comments on mine)
You know, “journey” is one of those words that I mistype ever freaking time! Thank you for catching it. Thank you for stopping by to read and comment! I really enjoyed yours as well!
So you are this conquerer of your life… nice.
That is my hope!! Thank you!
A very poetic anthem of both empowerment and the dedication to find happiness in the face of adversity. Truly powerful writing
Thank you. I appreciate you taking time to read and comment!
Beautiful! Thanks for the poetry.
You’re welcome and thank you for stopping by to read and comment!
You early people with your inspiration! I was reading at the very first as if it were the mountain itself moving and then transformed into the woman climbing. It’s early so I know I just sort of ‘went on a trip’ but in both versions (I read it again after a sip of coffee) it’s so true that going back is not an option. Forward is more work, but work is better than stagnation.
Kathy
http://notforallmarkets.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/690/
Very true! Stagnation helps no one, changes nothing. I’m up to the challenges….I hope! 🙂
I like your chances. 😀
inspiring poem!
Thank you for reading and the nice comment!
Beautiful…
‘And when she reached the peak
She saw only more mountains to climb’
….that’s how we all feel, about life.
Isn’t that the truth? Always another mountain, another hill. Some sloping gently, others sharply. But we all have it within ourselves to make those journeys. Thanks for stopping by!
I couldn’t agree more.. this tease, that life is. keeps us going, moving forward, even if we stall, it lures us in, in this crazy chase that may not make sense to any one but would mean the world to you and for this we are even ready to fall…
Very well said! It is a crazy chase and so many things that we can chase. Part of what is so hard about life is trying to figure out what to chase and what to let pass us by. We have our own rhymes and reasons for chasing what we chase. And if you’re not going full out for something, then is it really worth going after?
I Hear you, Just read your recent post… M new in town and just stepping our to find a post office… will try to send the card. it may not be in time… but will keep you posted if i send it out.
Thank you! I’m sure my grandfather will love it!