Hey there, dear reader. I'm looking for Modern/Contemporary poems about sunrises. Can be directly about sunrises, metaphorically, indirectly. Could even reference a sunrise.
Any ideas?
I have, so far, only found Slyvia Plath's "Southern Sunrise."
Thanks in advance!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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try the Poetry Foundation's Poetry Tool:
Aubades:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poem.glossary.1.html?id=14
There's not a lot there, but that's a start.
You also have my poem submitted to Third Coast, haha, that ends with a sunrise.
and lastly, on the Poetry Tool you can also search the term sunrise and you find some cool poems, such as the one below:
I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
BY ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN
White horses, tails high, rise from the cedar.
Smoke brings the fat crickets,
trembling breeze.
Find that holy place, a promise.
Embers glow like moon air.
I call you back from the grasses.
Wake me when sand pipers
fly. They fade,
and new sounds flutter. Cattails at sunrise.
Hair matted by sleep.
Sun on the meadow. Grey boughs lie tangled.
The ground I was born to
wants me to leave.
I’ve searched everywhere to tell you
my eyes are with the hazels.
Wind swells through fences, drones a flat ache for hours.
At night, music would echo
from your womanless bedroom.
Far down those bleaching cliffs,
roses shed a torrent.
Will you brush my ear? An ice bear sometimes lumbers west.
Your life still gleams, the edge melting.
I never let you know.
You showed me and how under snow and darkness,
the grasses breathe for miles.
FOOTNOTES: I’uni kwi athi? hiatho - father’s name. He never told us what it meant.
Here are the titles of some poems I found at poets.org:
"Nearing Dawn" by Jorie Graham (☺!)
"Pigeons at Dawn" and "This Morning" by Charles Simic
"Sunrise, Grand Canyon" by John Barton
"At sunrise I arose . . . " by Michel Deguy
"Dawn" by James Laughlin
"Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" by Dylan Thomas
Hopefully some of these will be of use to you. Some of these are more about sunrises than others.
If I find any other poems in actual books, I'll let you know!
Gary:
Oliver de La Paz's book, Furious Lullaby, is full of aubades.
Also, from Franl O'Hara's new collected works is the poem: "A True Accounting of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island."
I too, have written a lot of them, but you want well written poems, don't you?
I'm surprised no one's posted this one yet:
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Poems to Jim Harrison by Ted Kooser.
It's a great collection of 100 aubades by Kooser to his friend Jim Harrison. Full of rural Nebraska beauty. I'm sure you can find a few out of there.
Another that comes to mind is Frederico Garcia Lorca's 'Sunrise.'
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