Sunrise toward Sherwood Island (Photo/Michael Tomashefsky)
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Breathtaking Michael
Could not help catching my breath. Spectacular. Early bird catches the WOW!
Wow stupendous photo !
Beautiful- beautiful- we know that “spot” as Fiona’s Disappearing Island!
This is a gorgeous photo✨✨✨
Needs to be the study for a painting…just gorgeous!!!
That makes me think it might be worth getting up early….
just amazing!!!
Thanks to everybody for your wonderful comments!
Like “The Little Prince”, I could watch the sunset over-and-over again. And your blog provides ample opportunities! This poem was written on the occasion of a sunrise, recalled after your recent posting of Michael Thomashefsky’s photograph. I submit it in celebration of Westport’s new poet laureate.
Inspiration
It doesn’t appear, interrupting
the inky night, like a
bare bulb, blinding white;
but gently, subtly:
out of the dull grayness of predawn,
yielding in silence to the pink
and mauve struggle of a day being born.
Abruptly, umber-knurled peaks of east-distant
hills are ablaze, and an orange ripe orb
ascends against a confederate sky,
rising flawlessly round
except for a crow-feather cloud
which, like language to poetry,
pierces perfection by betraying limits.
– Jan Degenshein