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# Uphill Battles
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/sidewalk/
- Published: 2026-07-22T13:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:06:43.000Z
- Description: “Uphill Battles,” a slightly whiny observation of the slow going progress of construction on a busy road, written Wednesday, July 22, 2026 poem 203 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: "Under Construction," by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Current Events, Dry Humor, Humor, Petty, Poems, Rants, Short-form Musings, Snarky, Unserious, Concrete, Construction, Dualies, Grumpy, July, Not Today, Orange Cones, Rome, Sidewalk, Slow Sign, Stop Sign, Summer, Uphill Battle, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

Concrete forms   
and orange cones  
have clogged my way   
for weeks.  
  
Cement trucks,  
plural, a backhoe,  
a Caterpillar  
and half a dozen dualies  
park each day   
askew on the hillside  
impeding my route   
to work,   
to school,   
to the grocery.  
  
I wend my way  
Monday   
Tuesday   
by the construction.  
Wednesday  
Thursday   
Friday  
traffic snarls and bucks.  
  
Saturday and  
Monday  
(pause Sunday)  
the same tired workers  
hold up, once again,  
the STOP —  
—then SLOW sign.  
  
Will this path   
to somewhere,  
destination unclear,  
ever materialize?  
  
The summer storms says,  
as did Rome:  
*Not today.*