Endless Ladder

Read this one a strange but peaceful dream or use it as a swim drill which it what it is under the thin disguise. I find a bit of visualisation goes a long way. I wrote it with a friend in mind who is working hard on his swimming. I can see him under the water while I am swim training but like most swim teachers, I couldn't resist sticking my oar in! If you find it helps your stroke, send a fiver to my collection point for the kids at Chestnut Tree House www.justgiving.com/Daphne-Belt

Endless Ladder

 

It’s all quiet

Nobody is there

Keep moving on

Eye’s ahead where 

Focus in this

Underwater scene

Still and tranquil

In bluey green 

Far as the eye can see

It stretches on

How can it be

To infinity it has gone 

Deep down inside

You know it leads

To something better

Where style succeeds 

The endless ladder

The perfect tutor

Leads you on

Like a loving suitor 

Passion to reach for

Something better

Rise to the bait

Of this chain letter 

Reach forward

With your hand

To the next rung

And firmly land 

Pull your self along

One rung at a time

This arm and then this

Rhythmically in rhyme 

Plod away and

Keep a steady pace

Relax and settle

No need to race 

 Pull along the side

Keep your reach

A little wide

Your memory teach 

Slide again along

The ladder’s length

Grip and push back

Use your strength 

On hand one side

One hand the other

Nicely spaced out

And then recover 

Further along

More power then

Flowing movement

Smooth timing when 

The Endless ladder

Cadence steady

Take a rest

When you are ready 

Comfy now

Onward ever

Feel you could

Do this forever 

Knuckle down to

Peaceful progression

The pleasure true

A satisfying lesson 

Floating climb

Toward infinity

Settled style

With sure affinity 

Pull-push away

Till the move remain

In muscle memory

A sweet refrain 

Never reaching

The ladders end

A better swimmer

You are my friend