Before the Quiet Dawning--new, but Revised

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Open Poetry #24

Before the Quiet Dawning--new, but Revised

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2003-01-11 10:51 AM

Before the Quiet Dawning

I stepped into the blackness
of this winter morning

a tiny, solitary light
shone silently in heaven’s abyss

as I reveled in the promise
of a break in the clouds,

a dog echoed my delight
as it greeted the morning’s wakening

it was not a sound of mourning,
no, it was a rejoicing

my heart joined his
excited about the light to come
at day’s breaking

yet now, I sit, watching
pockmarks of rain form upon the patio

beneath the gray bowl
that envelops us

it had been a star or a planet
that was only teasing

or maybe, just maybe
it was giving assurance

that beyond the cloak
it was still there

though unseen,
it did not make it unreal

a statement of
“keep the faith...

I Am real."

©January 11, 2003

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

[This message has been edited by VAS (01-11-2003 11:38 AM).]

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