Rising Shine...

Colors of the morning spread,
     clouds rising like multi-colored steam
spilling upward from the lip
    of the sorcerer's cauldron of the sun
to form billowing mountains
    as the last star in the sky
points the way for the first rays
    to penetrate the darkness
and bring the start of a new day...
     Tangerine gleams and fades into cream,
the angle of incidence exploding the grey
    giving the robin's egg blue reflection
a place to start spreading
     as the light spreads and birds turn their heads
eastward, ever eastward,
     spreading their wings slowly
towards the warmth and toward the light...