# Rainbow on the mountain

*We are finding rainbows in this issue #256 of your weekly poetry shot*

By [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct) · 2025-08-01

poetry, mountain, rainbow, cycling

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> _In the middle of a hectic continent  
> a place of tranquility rises:  
> slopes, cable cars, summertime snow.  
> Dahus, marmottes, edelweiss,  
> and a rainbow on the mountain._

Back in 2011, I found a poem in a fountain. In a park in Hong Kong. I shared it on my blog, which I had back then. There was a comment from a friend on that post that inspired me to do more with my poetry. In 2012, I posted a poem to my blog daily, and let people who took part in a crowd fund help me select 52 poems for [my first poetry bundle](https://www.lulu.com/shop/arjan-tupan/a-rainbow-in-the-fountain/paperback/product-125wpdek.html?q=a+rainbow+in+the+fountain&page=1&pageSize=4). It was a fun experience, and since then I have not let go of that poetry thing.

My blog no longer exists, after a detour, I landed here, on Paragraph, where I now share poems. Different, but still the same. And when I saw that rainbow on the mountain earlier this week, I decided to revisit that fountain poem, and write a mountain version of it. I hope you like it.

Where do you find inspiration?

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### Poésie de la vie

The mountains are also for cycling. Whether it's downhill like our son loves to do, or a race like the Tour de France. It's beautiful, and it's challenging. Today also happens to be the day the [Reborn Trip 2025](https://reborntrip.fr/) starts. A bike ride from Paris La Défense to the summit of the Tourmalet in the Pyrenées. It's a tour of 1000 kilometer, and the people riding it are French and asylum seekers. It's a beautiful gesture of humanity. Here's a short video about the 2022 ride. It's in French, but YouTube has generated closed captions.

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4fT_S3lblc)

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*Originally published on [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/rainbow-on-the-mountain)*