***The Daylily***

   

Photo by Jim Borum      

good morning

a song of praise
the melody
of each rain drop
as it wakens
raises the living
*
I drink my coffee
like a daylily
I stretch
and lift my face
to the heavens
let this silent morning mist
wet my gown
smile and feel
myself come to life

*

  ~Unknown~

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