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Daybreak
by Jeremy Magee
A blanket turns down,
voices drift from
bottom to top.
Glass shines on glass,
water runs from top
to bottom.
Muscles creak, loosen,
shift from latent
to active.
Birds sing, twitter,
leave nests and shatter
the silence.
Wood moans with the
dew of dawn, paint
fibers loosen and contract.
Leaves flex over wind
and light, grass breathes in
the night and breathes out the day.
Trees promenade under
the clouds and wind,
laughter shoots from a gun.
Cars start, mountains yawn,
sadness sounds
like the morning
05/22/2002 Author's Note: The world creaks and stretches when it wakes up.
Posted on 10/26/2007
Copyright © 2010 Jeremy Magee
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Garth Hill on 07/25/09 at 09:59 AM a lot catches my eyes here ... the sounds inherent in the lines "Birds sing, twitter,/leave nests and shatter/the silence" for example, but probably my favorite image is the simple but powerful "grass breathes in/the night and breathes out the day." nicely imagined.
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