Glory and Joy

Glory and Joy

Sunrise, Joy's Garden, looking East

© Joy Krauthammer 

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/01/glory-and-joy.html

GLORY AND JOY

- Joy Krauthammer

Swath of saturated orange color

brushed high in the sky 

and spread strangely across.

I call my 90 year old neighbor
to share this divine delight

knowing she is up early 

and her daughter is away. 

As sun rises with my call

I won't awaken daughter.

This morning Edith calls me back 

tells me that the quiet color of pink 

although pale, covered in light fog

is surprisingly seen in the west,

"but not like yesterday's colors"

(that I missed while asleep…)
she reminds me.

Edith and I share passion

for G*d's early morning palette,

and brush strokes in the western winds.

When color is high in the sky

I call and alert Edith

her view misses the low eastern horizon.

What fun to share the Glory and joy

between Edith and me.

Last night we immersed ourselves 

in stunning narrow striations of illuminated orange,
deep blue and fuchsia with hues of purple

repeated intense color bands in the sky

across entire western horizon.
For a better view I drove toward the mountain.

Flaming colors felt like my long cotton scarf

I wore as I rode a camel
in wind-blown desert sands of blazing Moroccan Sahara.

Was easy to crawl out

from my tiny tent,
speechless, in awe, alone
to view these comparable colors of pure joy.

Sahara sand dunes and Santa Suzana Mountains
appear similar against the painted night and morning skies.

1/30/13

Sunset looking west towards Santa Suzana Mountains

© Joy Krauthammer

Sahara Desert Sunrise

As I peek out of my tiny tent

with my camel parked nearby.

 © Joy Krauthammer   1997

Moroccan prose
http://joys-prose.blogspot.com/2005/12/colors-of-my-soul-before-dawn-joy.html

http://myfriendedith.blogspot.com/2010/01/ode-to-edith.html


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