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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
purple sunrises are the best.
purple sunrises are the best.