Poetry Prompt Promptly Posted. (say that 3 times fast.)

Robert Lee Brewer Poetic Asides blog, Poem a Day Challenge.

For today’s prompt, write a morning poem. The poem can be about the morning, take place during the morning, or however you want to work the morning in.

photo at Sunset Hills mortuary borrowed from daughter Cori.

MOURNING.


it’s a white morning in nearly Spring

 the trees are black more than they’re green

 in contrast set against the sky

 as snow is falling

fast



we pause as birds ready to fly

 we’ve left you in the hands of God

and grief-trained hosts at the mortuary

 my dove heart beating

fast



biting my tears I turn to see

him gazing at the scenery

 pain and joy both cross his face

 “She would have loved this,” he says,

 “the snow,

the contrast”



He smiles. 


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ANOTHER MORNING POEM.


and I wake

“I was running a race in my dream,” I said.

“No wonder I’m always still tired in the morning.”