searching the sunrise / for an answer to / the question of existence // the origin is the end / the end is the start / deep within my heart

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how is it that i / live in paradise / the paradise of the now // when all around me the night / resists surrender / to the rising sun

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sonnet

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back where i began / for better or worse / too much traveling around // the dog wants to go outside / i step out with him / and greet the sunrise

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how can the sunrise / heal my morning blues / on this sunday coming down // the first day of october / with ice-water dew / on the bare branches

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the mighty columbia / beginning to break its fall / into the great pacific / spreads out a carpet of mud, / turns its back to the rising / sun to face its destiny: / the ferocious rolling sea

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song

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sunrise filtered through the mist / along the alsea river, / the morning becoming light, / the darkness becoming day / by gradual variations, / autumn preparing for death, / death preparing for the night

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where neskowin and hawk creeks / join just before emptying / into the pacific, we / stand, my love and i, to eye / the rising sun, the morning / mist, the light reflected on / the wet sand, the rising tide

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rain falling on the river, / the same river but never / the same, the sunrise stretching / like a bridge beneath the clouds, / the same sunrise but never / the same, the rain not raining / very hard, the sun rising

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