An Extract from this Month's Release:

  To celebrate this month's release of the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9.

 

In the Quiet, In the Dawn

 

Written on August 3, 2015, for the April 17 entry of 366 Days of Poetry, this piece describes the preparations for the day of folk in a fantasy world.

 

In the quiet, in the dawn,

we softly wake and stretch and yawn.

We softly wake and stretch and yawn,

admiring the color-spray of morn.

 

Admiring the color-spray,

we rise and dress, prepare for day.

preparing for the day, we yawn,

admire the color-spray of morn.

 

Preparing for the day, we yawn.

Some take armor, shield and sword.

Some take spear or bow and draw

their lots for where that day they’ll walk.

 

For where that day they’ll walk

will define the dangers they will stalk,

or the dangers that will stalk the day

that follows morning’s color spray.

 

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9.