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The Soft Climb

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for dVerse Poetics – “Adagio
for Strings”. Our host, Kim, asks us to
listen to the music and write a poem
expressing our thoughts and feelings.

Image by Me & Nano Banana

A single step in the dark,
a breath held in the quiet room.
Your hand finds mine,
a trembling arc,
cutting through the heavy gloom.
We do not speak of loss or time,
or how the fragile hours bend;
we only climb, we softly climb,
toward a peak that knows no end.

And then the swelling sorrow breaks
into a vast and golden sea.
Every sleeping pulse awakes,
drowning all the world in we.
If love is grief with shining eyes,
a soaring cry the heart must make,
then let the highest chord arise,
and break for you, and break for me.

The final echo fades away,
suspended on a breathless thread.
The dark gives way to quiet day;
the words remain unsaid, unsaid.
No shadow falls across this grace,
as time holds still and lets us be:
just two hearts in an empty space,
bound by the quiet harmony.

NAR©2026

This is “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber

Poetics: Adagio for Strings

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27 thoughts on “The Soft Climb”

  7. A wonderful poem, accompanied by one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. And I’ve always loved the way Gustavo Dudamel conducts the orchestra, so full of feeling and expression.

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