John Lawless Poet Free verse

The Hum of Sunrise

Quietly
The hum of sunrise
Awakens the day.
Cutting the familiar wake
Of an old butter knife
Un-noticed
Silent swans
Skirting the lily pads
Pass sunning turtles
Wary eyed muskrats
And bug-eyed frogs.



John G. Lawless
©5/30/2023

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Paul Willason May 31, 2023 at 5:53 PM Cutting the familiar wake of an old butter knife ...now there's something original plucked from a creative mind !. A great little poem John, simple observations that stick in the imaginaton.