Another Sunrise
pre-dawn purple
expands from the east,
summoning sunrise near
glimmers of golden light
pierce periwinkle puffs–
cumulus clouds
floating along fuscia firmament
painting peaks of opulent orange
stretching specks of silent starlight
to turn towards
dream-dipped diurnal direction
wise to the world waking–
startled by sudden sob-soaked shaking
quieted in a quasar’s quilted quaking
26 thoughts on "Another Sunrise"
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You used periwinkle and diurnal in a sentence. Brag brag 🙂 😆
Love all the colors.
Have a blessed day.
😆 Thanks, Coleman. I appreciate the nerd alert. 😆 A sign of a great community!! I miss the colorful sunrises. We’ve had so few this June. Thanks for reading. I wish you and blessed day, too.
This has a massive display of alliteration! Very impressive! I don’t think I’ve read anything like this before. Those last two lines take the cake!
Awesome! Thank you so much, Linda! 💜
“dream-dipped diurnal direction” — oh, my heart. Gorgeous, through and through,
Thanks, Bill! I won’t lie, that one took me some time. I had “diurnal” but I needed the rest of the image to take shape. I sat outside for at least a half hour trying to figure it out. Thanks for reading!
THIS!!
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ah,,,good sitting outside to bring these images to page.
love:
stretching specks of silent starlight
to turn towards
dream-dipped diurnal direction
Thanks, Pam! Yes, sitting outside helped tremendously.
Absolutely amazing alliteration!
And a beautiful wash of colors.
Thank you, Bud! Glad you enjoyed the visuals.
Adept use of alliteration. You paint a beautiful word painting for us.
Thank you, Lee! I am glad you enjoyed this one.
I felt like I was inside of a painting as it was being painted when I read this! And then the grounding, the waking, the here we are again
How awesome! Thanks for reading and for the kind words, Arwen!
What Arwen said!
This is What Dreams May Come imagery, and tangible and delicious language galore.
Perhaps, perhaps my favorite of yours ever!
Awesome. Thanks, Joseph. 🙂
Absolutely brilliant! Each word a stroke of a paintbrush folding into the next.
Love!
All things sky are my favorite.
Thank you so much, Mary!! 💜
The sounds here are incredible! Mary put this so well–it’s painterly.
Many thanks, Shaun! I’m glad you enjoyed this one.
Alliteration provides audible beat when read aloud. Your poem is so richly rhythmic, H.A., sounds like it’s singing.
Thank you so much, L! Much appreciated.
Such vivid imagery and I am a huge fan of alliteration!
Thank you, jstpoetry! I am glad you enjoyed this poem. We are getting ready to jump from mid-60s and rainy to a literal heatwave by Saturday- Monday. Let’s see what kind of show nature gives us up here in the northeast. Maybe it will make its way to the PoMo page. Thanks for reading!