the sunrise comes in its own good time over the mountains and through the black and blue and white clouds of dawn the air is charged with change try to ride out the uncertainty sip your coffee and be at peace

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the sun creates a space for us to gather together to enjoy each other to build up the greater good let our leaders be like the sunrise let the mystic poets guide us

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the sunrise mostly hidden

still rewards gentle patience

standing at the river's edge

the velvet heads of waterfowl

and their marvelous feathers

play against the golden light

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the rain this morning falling

on the murky glassy surface

of the canal now receiving

its fresh seasonal flowing

i feel the rain and follow

where my followers would lead me

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sunrise brings heaven to earth

the columbia river

river of my youthful days

brings the sunrise to my footsteps

brings harmony to my journey

through this day and the days to come

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the sunrise is humble it is a gift to all even as it overcomes the darkness and quietly burns away every fear and repairs the errors of the night

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the reading of the sky

echoes with the oracle

telling me to continue

letting myself be drawn upward

by the same gentle force

that brings tulips in spring

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sandhill cranes in the morning feasting on gold and silver stretching to the horizon and reflected in this pond i hear their strange exultations declaring cash for poems

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walking alone through marshlands

with no thought of returning

accepting a bad luck

sunrise but joining with these

good luck migrating sandhill cranes

to bid the critics adieu

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