The time between waking and getting out of bed, when you hear early morning noises outside the window and, half asleep, let your mind wander.
It is a pleasure to follow the observations of Clare Grant, who invented the idea of noting three beautiful things every day, and the feel-good librarian, who, like me could not resist taking up the idea. Going to their weblogs everyday is like following soap operas as you learn a little bit more about their lives, but with none of the melodrama.
The way the sun, low in the sky, touches sheep, which I see from the train to Hastings, with a makes them glow with a silvery light. It reminds me of the work of the mystical painter, Samuel Palmer, who lived in Shoreham, Kent, and was a friend of William Blake.
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The time between waking & getting out of bed...This reminds me of Tennyson's lyric in The Princess where he refers to "The earliest pipe of half awakened birds" - also Laurence Whistler's poem Yestermorrow. For my first encounter with this poem see my blog pomesonpoets.
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