Amber Glow

For this month's blog, I'm posting an original poem (plus a bonus poem) from my City College Creative Writing Class. Amber Glow is inspired by current times and Pandemic isolation... a routine state of mind and emotions in the early morning hours:

Amber Glow

In the orange radiance of early morning,

Heavy headed from dreams and distress,

I sit with green-black tea in hands, sighing.

 

Through my picture window of longing,

Staring, staring in palpable loneliness.

Massive trees are lit with the low sun moving,

 

Upward to a too blue sky as the sun is rising,

While hummingbirds dart for sweet sustenance,

And a faithful mockingbird is fervently singing.

 

I beseech nature to deliver days of raining,

Restore faith lost in a chaotic time of sadness--

To bring peace to a mind continually racing.

 

An intricately orchestrated soft morning,

Where the divinity of nature dances,

Unaware of human thoughts darkening.

 

On the last sip of tea in a day unfolding,

I dream of reprieve and renewed joyfulness,

Another heavy slumber to squelch aching--

To wake once again to amber dawn glowing.

Bonus Poem

Sehvet

Searing,

our eyes fixed

my straps fall to the floor

hands know me from lifetimes before

erupt.

Valerie Anne

Keep on swimming through life,

Valerie Anne Burns