DAWN, Germain Droogenbroodt

Slowly
the way a poem writes itself
daybreak comes into being
from nothing

disposes of silence
and brings light

everywhere arises green
provision for the sun

which from the earth
no other darkness removes

but the night.

Germain Droogenbroodt

  Picture: Dawn at Ithaca, Spain, by Germain Droogenbroodt

From: “In the Stream of Time»
Selected Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt
Bilingual English-Chinese
Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing Group
Isbn 978-7-5452-0076-8