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Poetry Friday : January 13, 2017.
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When I thumb the pages of my journals and look through my photos, I find an interesting thread — sunsets and sunrises. And in addition to writing about sunrises and sunsets and taking photos of them, I find myself recording them in my bullet journal.
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Notice the graphic for sunrise / sunset on this clip from my bullet journal.
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And this week, as my flight approached LGA, I capture the sunset.
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I wrote about sunsets and sunrises as the bookends of a day, and I wrote about watching the sun rise in the west — yes, in the west. {You really should read it.}
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And no matter how my day has played out, a sunset always lifts my spirit. I know that as surely as the sun sets, it will rise again, giving me a new day, another chance.
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Here’s my tribute to sunsets.
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 Day’s End
Unpredictable
Breath-taking wonder
Golden bridges
Across ocean waves
Fiery brilliance
Slicing through darkness
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Day’s at an end
Tomorrow’s a promise
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© 2017 Alice Nine

Writing about my writing
I wrote down descriptive words and phrases that came to mind as I lingered over my sunset photos, and then I played with those words–listening to the sounds, feeling the rhythm, counting syllables, moving lines, deleting words, adding words, looking in my thesaurus. . .  moving away from the text for a bit, coming back and reading again, and again… until I felt the beauty of the sun in its final moments as it slipped away for the long dark night.
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 Sunset at Seaside, September 2016

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