We Ride at Dawn
We Ride at Dawn
It is early, it’s the
time that isn’t really yet called day
The stars are still
shining, but across the sky the moon has made its way
The rooster and the
kookaburra, the only birds awake
In the time of waiting
stillness, before the daybreak
Hear: the little
crickets, frogs, the dripping of the tank
Glow now in the east,
no longer westward, where I know the sun sank
The dogs start to stir,
more birds come to sing
All will awake soon, a
new day forth bursting
Listen, the peaceful
breathing, of companion sleepers beside
Awake up and ready, for
at dawn we must ride!
I wrote this at about 5:40 this morning. What was I doing up then?Writing of course!
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Nice poem. Now I wish I could write something like that. :D
ReplyDeleteOh, and, why ever were you awake to be writing at such a time?
Well I just woke up, and the poem just unfolded so I had to find something to write it down on and it sort of woke me up!
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