A Poet's Day

In early morning,
a poet writes.
One with the dawning.

While the morning sun 
lights the land,
all earth 
wakes up yawning.

And as the sun
climbs the sky,
poems live 
in the poet's eye.

Daylight is diminishing.
The Poet is finishing.
Endings come, 
and the day is done.

That's what we think! 
But, still, we wake  up 
in the night.
The muse turns
on and off our light.

Thoughts come and go
inside the head.
We're still not ready
for sleep and bed!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Goff Avatar
November 3, 2014 at 7:29 AM
nice again, Darlene...Bly says....when night calms our reptilian brain....energy moves up thru our limbic layer to our neo-cortex, where creative work derives....I love this poem...will print....jimbo
Yvonne Avatar
October 28, 2014 at 8:32 PM
Excellent write, hits the nail on the head.
Meier-Hans Avatar
October 27, 2014 at 12:54 PM
Wow this is so true Darlene. The words just won't stop sometimes.
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