# A giant watching

*We're up high in the mountains in issue #258 of your weekly poetry shot*

By [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct) · 2025-08-15

mountains, alps, hiking, nature, poetry, highku, higher

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In the distance  
a giant stands  
watching over  
a landscape at  
altitude  
and the beauty it contains.

In the Savoie, where a part of the French Alps are, you can see the Mont Blanc watching over the region from almost anywhere. The giant is omnipresent. Especially if you are a bit higher up yourself above the treeline. There, you not only have beautiful views, or the chance to find and touch snow in winter, you also find beautiful plants that live in this uninhabitable terrain. Little purple flowers growing between the rocks, fields of littly fluffy flowers next to mountain lakes and streams, and if you are very lucky: edelweiss.

There is so much beauty in our world. Which part never seizes to amaze you?

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### Poésie de la vie

This time a video made by a person hiking through the Vanoise national park in France. This is the same region as I found the above poem in.

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzwKLVbciA)

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*Originally published on [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/a-giant-watching)*