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Dawn’s breeze
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A silver blaze lights up the sky in the dawn,
Throwing into stark contrast black rocks on the white;
Ice on the mountaintops glimmers silver and bright,
As flecks of snow rise in the breath of a day, newborn…
Golden rays light up the roof of the world, fog swathed,
Mountains towering high in the light of the misty dawn;
A murmur flows down the hills in the golden haze,
Rustling and waking the bright eyed squirrels, still asleep…
Down the wooded slopes the morning light flows,
Waking the denizens of the bushes and trees;
The mist in the trees curls and rises in the morning sun,
Flickering in the wake of a zephyr mountain-born…
A whisper carries in the warmth of the morning light,
As the breeze streams into the jungle from the open hills;
Rousing the sleeping buds and leaves in the canopy, high,
Singing with the brook babbling in the trees…
Golden sunlight blossoms o’er a river in the plains,
Its rippling waters soaking in the sunlit glow;
The river shines blazing red, gold and yellow,
The wake of the breeze from the trees vanishes in the flow…
A riot of colours explode on the grassy meads,
As the sky turns blue and a fiery arc rises;
The breath of the river leaves a shimmering trail,
Where dewdrops sparkle in the morning light…
The whisper of the grass builds to a blast in the rocks,
Keening through the sunlit cliff tops by the ocean;
Hordes of gulls take to flight in the morning bright,
Skimming off the wind on the waves and head out to sea…
The waters turn golden on the white sands under my feet,
As I watch the morning’s sun climb up o’er waters deep;
I breathe the scent of the snows and trees and meads and the sea,
With the feathery caress of Dawn’s breeze on my cheek…
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