Rise and Shine

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Look who’s here wanting me to get up.

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Philosopher

Smiley Cat

Thanks for the wake-up call, Vivian.  But first let me wipe the sleep – and the cat hair – from my eyes!

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:  View from the Side
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:  Cute Factor

Early Rise

001Waking up too soon
dreams dissolve, sleep elusive,
I rub my tired eyes

006But then my heart smiles
a new day, a new chance – Life’s
consolation prize.

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Do you ever wake up too early?
Or do you like to start every morning at daybreak?

Photo Challenge: Early
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this morning…

eyes open wide at sunrise,

i’m pondering a metaphor

for love


to paint a poem of words

of the two of us in couplet

yet apart


today between the lines

you will teach chess to

the school children

today among minutiae

i will savour our

reinvention


let this stanza of our lives

speak to beauty in its rhythm

and its rhyme


let passion write the verse

twin souls in gentle tandem

through the hours


tonight, reverie abandoned

i’ll bathe in quiet

ceremony

tonight, your page bookmarked

you’ll read me as i want

to be


you whisper my name jennifer

i think i’ve found the metaphor

in you