Jessica Hopkins, Brownsboro

A Sunrise Sonnet

Sunrise, bring your bluebird’s song. Cheap eggs made with pepper and salt, Burned coffee brewed far too strong, School buses screeching to a halt. Bring your green, dewdrop grass, Sleepy mornings, thick like honey, Perfect mornings, fragile as glass, Shower songs and dancing funny. Bring your light “Good morning!” kiss and, “Where’d I leave my keys?” Warm sunrise rays of golden bliss, Bring a gentle morning breeze. And even if the day is filled with sorrow, we’ll start again when I see you tomorrow.