Polarity

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August-2- 2025

1400 -Poetry Contest

Sponsor- Brian Strand

* * ** *** joy and pain victory and defeat hope and despair exist side by side and interwoven in to the same fabric of life, teaching us, building us, and strengthening us. thus launching us higher and higher in to loftier space

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Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 8/2/2025 5:20:00 PM

inspirational and wise words, dear Valsa. I always find your poems take me to a higher place, and for that I'm grateful. I admire your ability to create shapes....I've not yet developed that skill. Wishing you a pleasant evening, Sara

Sara Kendrick

Date: 8/2/2025 12:19:00 PM

I agree that all that we go through can either lift us to a loftier place or for some pull them down into despair that they can't rise from. Thank you, Valsa, for sharing this one with us. Sara K

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 8/2/2025 8:53:00 AM

I love the form you created here and yes higher and higher, this is what we should all strive for in our lives. Thankyou for sharing your creative side , love it

Joe Dimino

Date: 8/2/2025 8:28:00 AM

"teaching us, building us, and strengthening us." -- binding us, redeeming us. Love it!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/2/2025 8:19:00 AM

Wow. Excellent use of shape to give us this rocketship. of need full opposites in life!

Maria Williams

Date: 8/2/2025 7:11:00 AM

Dearest Valsa, this is both visually and emotionally powerful—so beautifully presented, so deeply felt. The way you’ve laid out the words mirrors the rhythms of life itself, with its rises and falls, its contrasts and harmonies. I love how you remind us that joy and pain, hope and despair, all belong to the same thread—that they’re not just opposites but co-creators of strength. Good luck in the contest...Hugs .

John Fleming

Date: 8/2/2025 5:28:00 AM

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche. I think old Friedrich would have approved of your poem, Valsa. Nicely contrived! :) john p.s good luck in the contest!