Daybreak Along the 401

Wrote this the first morning while driving...

actually, passenger-ing down the highway sipping coffee!

...although a freeway wake-up is many people's 'normal' 

it was quite a novelty to this rural-rooted 'girl'😀

Goldenrod soft kissed with mist

Freeway glazed with gold

Worship stirred by nature’s vist-

A rushing through time’s mold

Sumac lit by autumn’s torch

Rending greenwood haze

Rousing from thought’s heart-shaped porch

Wonder filled with praise

Heaven spills to earthy bars

Lights the lambent lea

Highlights pastel petal-stars

With God’s majesty

Diamond-studded dust of days

Gains another gem

Ruby set in golds and grays

Mercy’s diadem

Ditches brushed with silver sage

Traffic rushes by

On a grand four-season stage

Hinging earth to sky

Tree-tops glisten with the gilt

Of sun spilt to leaves

And wheels of gossamer silk

Spider-artist weaves

Asphalt ribbon carved through shale

Curve-cupped crooks and nooks

Mural of hill, stream and vale

Captures second looks

Salmon-tinted rock-juts, oh

Tail-light garnet dims

Cup of coffee savoured, slow

Where a new day brims

© Janet Martin