text: Posted on April 28, 2017 by HeatherFeather	in Poetry	• Tagged free verse poem, poetry prompt, starlight, sunset • 2 Comments
  The Earthy Colors of Sunrise
  The wall behind my desk is scattered with photos of the rusty, red-orange desert stone formations near where I live. I love those photos. If sunrises melted into hard, tangible earth, they would streak across the landscape just like that. A red watercolor with vertical drips that puddled at the bottom and orange horizontal streaks running below the horizon; the blue of the sky so intense you feel the heat of the sand, taste the grit in the dust stirred up by your feet, and know there could not possibly be any orange or red left for another sunset. Until evening comes, when the formations are cast into blackening shadow and the sky steals back it’s color from the earth to create a fire-show streaking across the western sky. Finally all the colors fade and the world is plunged into cooling darkness until morning, when the earth steals the sunrise colors and makes them solid again.
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  Posted on March 23, 2011 by librarywriter	in Uncategorized	• Tagged color, desert landscape, rock formations, sunrise, sunset • 1 Comment