Morning On The Mountains

• Damya Wijesekera, Grade 10, Hornsby Girls High School -
• Poetry
• 2019

Excellence Award in the 'Inspired 2019' competition

Dawn rises,
In the alpenglow on the wild white peaks,
Through the shining eyes of dew on leaves,
And the frondescence of the waking plants;
The denouement of the night;
An ephemeral moment,
Caught in the liminal state between waking night and sleeping day,
The sun a solitary golden phosphene on the skyline,
Still pale and half-awake,
Its sunbeams only moonglades, stolen from the night;
The morning’s birds a syzygy of white and feuillemort,
The sky luminous with ethereal light,
A whole day still newly awake;

A daily serendipity.

And the aurora settles on the mountainside
To sleep the day away.