New Beginning

I attended a wonderful writing retreat this weekend, and had an opportunity to work on some poetry. Yesterday, I posted one of the poems I wrote on the retreat. Today, I spent some time processing the experience and felt inspired by one of the photos I took, to write another poem. I first posted it on a collaborative blog I write with my writing group, TrailBrazen. I decided to share here too. Enjoy.

New Beginning
by Laurie J. Kemp

Glorious is the sun rising over a new day,
out of the swirling clouds like a genie from a bottle.
Her golden glow casts metallic iridescence
over the dark surface of the deep blue waters.
She lifts gradually, higher into the great wide open
basking in her own reflection,
shadowing the clouds slowly melting them away.
Up from the horizon she takes her throne in the heavens
and the expanse of her golden light clears
the azure, vibrant and bright.
And we rise with the sun
her warmth, her glow, her power
and her promise of a new beginning.