rising

sun should heel
this unteachable sky

shamelessly
blooming into pinks
anticipating heat

but waits
until birds shout it

all the way awake

singing it day
with flow into
dark
flocking glyphs

their winged smile

shapes in flying
a name
unpronounceable

to these lips

of dawn breaking

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?
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15 Responses to rising

  1. wish dawn could speak!

    • Me too. I was listening, hard.

      • “blooming into pinks, anticipating heat” – sight and sense, color, tansformations and sensible heat converge…innocently :-), and nature awakens…and the birds, like glyphs scattered in the sky fly – appeals to sight combine and sounds/noises of morning birds in flight. Dawn! Beautiful!

        • …now I am blooming into reds. Thank you. Maybe words for dawn would be overwhelming–something so beautiful perhaps does not need words to speak, as it already speaks to us so strongly without them.

  2. Rhonda's avatar Rhonda says:

    Sfam…do you know what they call dawn in the UK? Dawn Chorus. You have just defined that very thing! Lovely

  3. thecavesofaltamira's avatar Jeremy Nathan Marks says:

    I agree with Rhonda. And what I like best about this is how there is a fragmentary, broken cadence to the verses which works to bring out color in splinters. . . like dawn. Can you tell that I really like this?

  4. rozzychan's avatar rozzychan says:

    It’s got a great feel.

  5. nelle's avatar nelle says:

    A lovely description…

  6. U make it bloom and moan, a beautiful gloaming of tastes in words~ Thanks again friend ~Deborah

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