709 : The New Day

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #163) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

sturdy, scent, propel, chase, terrain, fluid,

paving, launch, countless, field, lean, jovial

The New Day

Some people fall from bed.

Some people crawl from bed,

Reluctant to leave this padded field of dreams

For the, they say, cold terrain of reality;

They're happier to stay in their feathered bed

With sturdy little legs (on the bed)

And generous padding and woolly embrace

(Still talking about the bed)

Rather than propel themselves into a new day,

Rather than to launch themselves upon

A, quite frankly, uncaring world.

They remain snug, comatose and curled

Like so many sleeping slugs

Found beneath my paving stones.

Others, of course,

(And they are hated by the first)

Burst from their beds,

Bright-eyed and jovial,

Eager to venture forth,

Liking nothing better than

To lean reflectively against trees

In the early morning light,

Cupping their hands 

Around mugs of hot fluids

(Not always herbal teas

Despite the aspersions made by 

Their less energetic 

And horizontal opposites)

They stand there,

With the hot fluids of their choice,

Watching the world unfold,

As the sun breaks through the leaves,

As small birds flit from bush to bush,

Chasing equally flitty insects,

As webs boast their jewellery of evening dew,

Absorbing the smells, the sights, the sounds,

Heaven seen,

Heaven heard,

Heaven scent.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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