Every day, the sun sets
you noticed?
in a great, glorious performance
of wraparound scenic splendour
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Poetry in prose - lovely, lovely, lovely! You're a tremendous example to us all here, Michael. Absolutely lovely!
I love the line about justifying our existence, it makes perfect sense to me.
Michael, this goes in my favorites...and I would like to use it at my next poetry workshop. I love 'the ode we're owed.' What fun...and a constant theme of my own is that the next day we get to do it all over again, so I loved the ending of your poem. How many poets (myself included) have done sunrise/sunset poems? Our ultimate resource. Beautiful. Raynette