National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 28
PISTON
It’s tough, as just about everyone knows,
when you get knocked down,
to get back up, and up, and up—
like Rocky under Apollo’s blows,
or the dandelions after the lawn’s been cut.
Throwing back the covers at the jarring alarm
morning after morning is as hard as it’s cold.
Once is a start. Ten gets old.
Ten times ten is a bold sign of zealotry.
But to turn the wheels of heaven and earth
takes releasing the slap of the burn
over and over, seven times seventy.