late riser

[Meta]

It is not an alarm clock
but ruby branches that wake her this day
and the winter lemon limbs that lick her face
like sunshine.

How long has it been since she had taken notice
of the emeralds lying beneath the rain drops
or that, even while the sky lingered in her graying sheets,
morning rose from the Oregon earth.

[Poeticpiers]

lovely Meta to rise with the sun and sleep i the darkness was mans inheritance before some fool invented artificial light ,Clocks and shift work.
I am retired now and no longer ruled by the clock I sleep when I am tired eat when I am hungry as naturre intended

[monkey boy]

one day we wake up and color returns to the world.

mb

[Meta]

thank you all

and Monkey Boy, thank you for so clearly seeing what I seem to have seen :)

[Mac]

the only good thing about gray days is the possibility of a rainbow. well done meta

[ascension]

wonderful!

[naturalist]

I love the understanding that lays underneath, just beautiful - thank you!

[beeonfleur]

if all else fails, nature may still awaken us from time to time . . . lovely poem

peace to you

beeonfleur