Steven M Nelson
(c)  1998 all rights reserved

Sun edging on horizon silhouette
     guilded summits
revealed against deep, glowing sky
light of day promised
cast gold on murky,
waking world
whisping vapor rising from cleaved earth
climbing mountainsides

Mornings dawn in life summer
 warm day blossoms,
revealing itself
jubilently naked
dewladen virgin

I inhale sweet, glory-morning air
shake away dream vestige
snapping bones and sinew
rested body stretching out
distending into precocious day

Long shadows not foreboding
point the way
predict the sun
west on it's path
eastfacing surfaces bathed in fresh light
more to be revealed

I have seen mornings
on mornings
some unwelcome,
some shrouded
unknowing
some a setting stage
for hopeful,
gestating days unborn
 

Now my seasoned eyes
see deeper
adjusted to gentle lights
practiced eyes
 understand the things they lay upon
subtler shades
- this day comes clear and welcome

The rising sun bathes my world
in velvet, honeyed light
- promises so sweetly -
enfolding, revealing, nourishing -
new, yet ancient -
I recieve this morning
that so
embraces me