Impression of Sunrise
Once again nature untiringly
Presents sunrise
Its spectacular beauty never
Turns wearisome to viewers
First fading of flickers from enfeebled stars
Heralds time for the night to retire
Looming dark clouds in the east
Quietly await the arrival of the sun
And a subtle slackening of duskiness in the sky
Hints the show is going to get a daring start
This shift from the dying of the night
To the rising of a new day is full of amazement
As long as clouds in the low atmosphere
Are not dense enough to block sunrays
With refraction and scattering of lights
From the sun still below the horizon
The clouds and the sky start to exhibit
Wide variations of shades and hues
Drifting clouds are celestial dancers
Magically changing their colors from
Purple blue red orange to yellow
In unpredictable ways
They stately perform a colossal ceremony
In welcoming the arrival of the sun
The immediacy and convolution of this show
Challenges spectators’ eyes
When the sun finally ascends above the horizon
Its golden ball soon turns into an illuminating white globe
Eventually its blinding brightness thwarts viewers’ gazes
And whitens all clouds and the sky
So the show ends
The sun goes on to nurture the earth
As always since its birth
Another day for the earthbound lives begins
By Shih-Fang Wang
From: United States