I saw the light born and reborn this morning. From dark sea and dim horizon came a holy glow,A signal that night's rule was ending;A first, tentative announcement that light and life would indeed return from the underworld. That first dim glow grew bright...
Dawn. They stood like five sentinels around the fire. They knew it was coming. The band started to play. “First Call!” The rest of the company stirred. Each man knowing his duty. Accouterments donned. Backpacks slung. “Company Fall In!” The men lined up. ...
Purple clouds hang against a burgeoning blue Brightening scene backdrops black trees on the horizon Darkness again giving way to light brand new Spirits of night... spell soon will be broken Flickering stars once more bidding their final adieu Chilly nigh...
That’s not it, she’s not yours.Why? Why isn’t she mine?You shouldn’t chase her, you don’t deserve her.Why?She’s not yours,She’s a kid. A human being.She’s not a kid, She’s a key.Glowing, green, energy ball,Stuffed in a meat wrapperthe one that will end it...
dawn breaks slowly quietly inching forward as if it dares not disturb the night like a lover dares not disturb the one he loves while she is sleeping he climbs into bed slowly and pulls the covers around her so that she is warm and he selflessly gives hi...
The General stands on the edge of the forest. His grey-green eyes haunted by death and destruction looks over the beauty of the meadow before him His heavy armor matches the heaviness in his heart. When will the bloodshed and devastation stop. Blood cover...
Looking at the morning moon,pale now in the southern sky,moving slowly like me,while the sun is rising in the east,bringing dawn and another day,and even though the trees are stilland it’s quiet here,no birds at the feeder,the squirrels have not begun the...
In dawn’s stillness,listening to the quiethover like fog,I disappearand nothing exists.No sound, no light,no breath,no motion,not even my heartbeat can be heard,just silence until the crackle of the firelike a hand clapsnaps me from myabsence.And I see a...
Note: For several years I woke up at 4 am and wrote a new poem each dawn never knowing what would come. I’ve collected the best of them in a book called Morning Songs and now will share some of them with those who are interested.Each dawn I sit here waiti...
