flagrant golden dawn

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flagrant golden dawn

flinging pink, mauve and yellow

north, south and earthward

pre-dawn blue

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before dawn can break

sapphire sky these chill mornings

intense blue of joy

depth matters

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sapphire sky turns pale

losing the depth to ICE blue

intimidation

renew

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whispered blue morning

gentle fog cushioning dawn

“sleep in, rest and heal”

orange dawns

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orange dawns in winter

mauve and pink shun cold mornings

shiver-wrap in gold

fierce winter sunrise

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fierce winter sunrise

burnt-orange horizon fading

from Sol’s red anger

bind the moon

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purple cloud stripes cross

pearl-white and rill-shadowed moon

tied to earth's night sky

painted mornings

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Nature paints mornings

over horizon dotted

with pine silhouettes

autumn hues gambol

colors pirouetting

in chill-edged draughts

green costumes changed

for final bow to yellow

golden, orange, auburn

ruby, burgundy, red

and, rarely, blue

nods and curtseys

to the reality of cycle

slivered cloudbank

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 pale tangerine sky

slivers blue cloudbank

leaving rose-pink wound

needing advertisement

sun-lit turquoise, yellow and orange

glass  bulb filled with nectar

but without any red to announce

is put among the potted flowers

for their pleasure

highlighting Hood

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yellow-orange sunrise

quickly pale gray-gold mat sky

silhouettes Mt. Hood

palette of elation

simply to sharpen my awareness

of the beauty around me, i look

in order for a natural representation

of each of the colors of the rainbow

red, today, is apple (noting with joy

the golden-yellow, wiggly lines

descending from the shoulders)

orange – sunrise struggling between

purple clouds

yellow – leaves, as Alli Weiss put it,

learning ‘the sweet song of dying’

green – remarking trees in prolific hues

from chartreuse, pea green, avocado olive, khaki, bottle, sea, cedar, emerald

blues in luscious abundance from sky

to spruce needles to rare autumn

fallen lacy leaves

purple, magenta, hyacinth

and tiny, pink, shy, bell-like florets

even remembering this gorgeous pallet

of my world bring me warm peace

and hope for a happy tomorrow

sunrise insistent

sunrise insistent

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peach-orange streaks widen

‘tween purple-indigo clouds

dawn insists on life

dawn directions

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 brilliant pink-orange east

dawn reclaiming from gray mists

moving sunrise north

spell giving way

more yellow in this morning’s sky

pre-dawn indigo had a tinge of green

sunrise corals washed-out, muted

by hovering mist hinting with chill

that the freakish spell of unseasonable

warmth will again give way to March

to pinch too-early rhododendrons buds

varied dawns

my panorama view across the valley

to the west hills affords me dawns

so varied, dull gray and vivid gold

and each gives me pause to be grateful

late January sunrise

the colors of dawn were even more vivid than i captured

orange

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burnished copper gleams

embers of dying fire

warming spiced cider

pink-gold dawn

gentle, pink-colored sunrise

this morning gradually being insinuated

by insistent pale gold tinting grass

evergreens, fields and hills beyond

as though pigmenting with glory

the very air to wrap us all

in a new beginning

blue-purple

mauve bruising to thunderhead

as gold edges blue-purple clouds

sunset promise of anguish

to be faced in lone darkness

anger to be mellowed by night’s quiet

battle for peace

courage to be summoned to face

a rather-not reality and fears

i will admit to sadness and strip

delusion of control

“i” remain, depleted though i am

i will give what i can and keep

what i need to

dawn will come again with warmth

to swell the sight and smell of purple plums