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a poem a day in the month of may

Kaitlin Curtice
May 25, 2023
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There’s been a lot said about the valleys.
They are the low places, the hard places,
the seasons of life we don’t want to re-live.
The valley is where we cry out, we scream
for someone to hear us, to know our pain.
The valley is where we look up and around
for some kind of god and ask for help from them.
Then again, the valley becomes the starting place.
Where things are difficult, we learn to fight.
Where things are painful, we look for remedy.
Where there are questions, we journey.
The valley is somehow both a trap and a womb.
The valley is our darkest fears and guiding light.
The valley is the enigma, and we are travelers,
and somehow, somehow, this is what it is 
to be human and to not know the way ahead.
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Jane Longley
May 25

I think valleys sometimes get a bad press -

the lows, the troughs

the vale of tears

the valley of the shadow of death

But what of the hidden valley

the gentle, green slopes

the rippling river

the breeze in the branches

the delicate daisies?

What of the peaceful haven of rest

where I can be still and reflect

take time to think

and be renewed?

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A. Wilder Westgate
May 25

The thing

about being

in a valley is that

after you've hit the

bottom you still have

to climb your way back out.

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