Morning...
When morning sings -
What pleasant gladness, morning brings -
When morning sighs -
When morning peers through blinking sleep-filled eyes
When morning comes -
When glistening gleaming dew becomes -
The mist of early morning things -
The breath of vapour
rising up on sunlit beams -
The wakeful tune of early morning songs -
When robins sing
To release the sun held back
While grasping evening tendrils cling...
Toronto, 1999
Copyright. Jonathan Koh, 1999