Seeing the Dawn

“Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action.” – Vera Nazarian 

Had the first of two “Crack of Dawn” experiences today viewing the migration of sandhill cranes.  More about that later.  Meanwhile, was thinking about things I’d seen written about “the dawn,” and found the one above to go along with the stanza from a poem I had picked out earlier.   

  

The poem, penned by Joyce Kilmer, better known of course for his poem Trees, is called, quote appropriately,  

Alarm Clocks.

When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm

Across green fields and yellow hills of hay

The little twittering birds laugh in his way

And poise triumphant on his shining arm.

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