How would you slant light?

Blank canvas

If you had the chance
to paint the sky,
how would you do it?
Would your brush be brash
and full of color,
from orange through pink
up to early-morning blue?
Or would you go for the sunset,
dimming down from dark to
the last warmth
of sinking light?
Maybe you would deeply grey the clouds
and then erase a fuzzy window
for a shyly peeking sun?
Or would you just take
any day
and lift it up
by climbing shadows
of late bright,
tilting them high
and daring one’s heart
to sing
with the trees?

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After casting aside my poetry hat for far too long, my NaBloPoMo plan is to write a poem — and to take and post a photo — every day in November, spending less than half an hour on both. The hope is to drill down, to focus, to look for and create beauty.

Day 1: Eleven One

Day 2: Shoreline

Day 3: Damage

Day 4: On Parenting and Sunrises

Day 5: When will we?

Day 6: Voting Line

Day 7: What I want my children to learn from me

Day 8: Haiku

Day 9: Reminders

Day 10: Routine

Day 11: Lux Esto, in moderation

Day 12: Family Photo Shoot at (nearly) 4o