Sunday 22 February 2015

first thing

dawn songs
strike and treat
your cares away,
first thoughts
stifled on a chirping scale
of octave-scent oxygen
wept through windows
worldwide,
as if to say
don't start your day
just listen
still and lay.

6 comments:

  1. Lovely. This is often the way I begin my day: just listen still and lay. It is a lovely cocooned feeling - though, occasionally, I find I - inexplicably - feel a little sad.

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  2. Yes...you put it simply and perfectly. Just the right kind of poem to capture the moment and the feeling of it.

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  3. that is about the only thing that has been nice about all the snow...
    getting to lay there in the mornings with no where to go...ha...
    i like listening to the birds...its peaceful...

    hey you, you been doing well?

    nice new look to the page...

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  4. Listening to the music of the morning is a great way to start the day indeed :)

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  5. Funny....how another's perspective can lend color to a moment. My insomniac 3am mornings lying in the stillness of the night listening to another breathe. I have, at times, had hours of this.....when thought and dreams and regret mingle into purpose. This was lovely, my friend.

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