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PHOENIX RISING 2021
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SOCIAL BUTTERFLY
as
we rise
from ashes
step thru decay
a purple sunrise
promises a new day
relatively calm moments
conceal the storm that’s a brewing
a mighty beast shaken from slumbers
with chaotic vision; blistering hope
I have had many days like
I have had many days like that. I should like to think that, when those days are summed up, the purple sunrise fully triumphs over the awakened beast and heals the blistered hope. Since I was nine years old, Easter has been my very favorite holiday, and your poem brilliantly and succinctly summons back to me, in this dim gray winter, a sense of the joy of this next Easter, with its purple sunrise and calming moments. Thank you, sir, for posting this.
Starward-Led [in Chrismation, Januarius]
purple sunrises are the best.
purple sunrises are the best.