Reflections from the Third Mountain

By Steve Rincavage

Every journey starts with a first step, a second step and sometimes followed by a lot of prep. Hopefully this leads to a third step and many future accomplishments. Our lives have many cycles; right, wrong or indifferent, these poems categorize them into hills, ravines, ditches and mountains. Your first mountain starts at conception and generally takes a breaking point after high school or some form of higher education or armed services. Your second mountain typically lasts the longest. It consists of those working years and can span until your retirement. Marriage, house hunting and children sometimes get entwined into those productive years. Somewhere around 50 years old, sometimes later, one starts to navigate up the third mountain. Your most productive years are behind you and you ponder how do I make a difference when the dash is over on this sphere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781387632626

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Reflections from the Third Mountain

Reflections from the Third Mountain

By: Steve Rincavage

Printing/Distribution by Lulu, Inc, (www.lulu.com)

Morrisville, NC 27560

Category: Poetry

All rights retained by the author.  No part of this book can be reproduced or transmitted in any manner without written consent.

© 2018 by Steve Rincavage.

First Printing, February, 2018, R3

ISBN: 978-1-387-47657-2

Front cover design by Henry and Steve Rincavage.

Images and sketches done by the author.

www.lulu.com/srincavage

Also by Steve Rincavage:

Dang Valley: Beginnings

101 Poems from my Lithuanian Soul that Seek to be Sung

Another 101 Poems from my Lithuanian Soul that Seek to be Sung

There Ends 101 Poems from my Lithuanian Soul that Seek to be Sung

The SpaceTime Translations (Companion book)

Dedication

To all the people who are making their way up the mountains. 

Special thanks to the Trio De Scenario for the great joys in my First Mountain climb, meeting the Holy Ghost on the Second Mountain and Babychka for bringing me to the base of my Third Mountain.

Acknowledgements

To my family and friends, love long and hard. 

This collection of words was pulled from conversations, prayers and thoughts with those coming and going up and down their mountains.  Also need to acknowledge all the philosophers and musicians out there who seeped into my soul.  Keep on doin’ your thing.

Introduction

Every journey starts with a first step, a second step and sometimes followed by a lot of prep.  Hopefully this leads to a third step and many future accomplishments.

Our lives have many cycles; right, wrong or indifferent, these poems categorize them into hills, ravines, ditches and mountains.  Your first mountain starts at conception and generally takes a breaking point after high school or some form of higher education or armed services.  Your second mountain typically lasts the longest.  It consists of those working years and can span until your retirement.  Marriage, house hunting and children sometimes get entwined into those productive years.  Somewhere around 50 years old, sometimes later, one starts to navigate up the third mountain.  Your most productive years are behind you and you ponder how do I make a difference when the dash is over on this sphere.

A good woman, a bottle of wine, a bucolic landscape with pen and paper at hand, that’s all many men need to get by.  In order to capture some of these past and future journeys, I drew from life experiences and also from 300+ poems written a number of years ago.  It’s true, they say once a poet always a poet.  Like a new born baby, my brain needed another release so here we go again.  Contained are 98 poems that have a theme of climbing and exploring the three mountains.  It’s up to you to see what happens on the ascent, zenith and descent of gravity’s pull.

Here are some thoughts to help formulate where I came from and where I’m going:

I’m a dreamer from Westminster making my way to the middle of my brain.  Each new thought gets me deeper and deeper until my cerebellum becomes a keeper.

This universe is Brobdingnagian

That’s why you have to break it into bits and pieces

Because when your life gets bigger and new

You need to understand what pulled the trigger in you

‘A wise old owl sat on an oak

The more he saw, the less he spoke

The less he spoke, the more he heard.’

Your life may or may not consist of three mountains and watershed moments.  Watch out for the ones who wish to control you.  The power of suggestion can be quite powerful; look at World War II if you need some examples.  So do not conform unless you know the actions are tied to positive karma.

Some only get to see their first mountain; some only get to climb their second mountain.  Hopefully you get to experience your third mountain and explore every crevice wherever it may lead you.  Enjoy the journey and march forth with 20/20 vision.  Take a deep breath, look at the mountains and reflect on the words; let them take you wherever your heart and head desire.

1.  The First and Second Mountain

I’m a player