2010/07/22 Burning Coals Sky Poem by Margaret Alice

The most beautiful sunrise: clouds soft grey
obscuring the sun, suddenly a pinkish hue
indicating the sun breaking through, lighting
fiery coals everywhere, changing the sky
to the most magnificent enchanting blue

How to describe a translucent luminescence
iridescent, opalescent, sublime, descriptive
words depicting the scene is all that is left
no picture or photograph can capture the
feelings evoked by this scene

The colours seem wrong when recalled, the
vibrancy can only exist in real life, becomes
psychedelic when retained beyond their one
glorious moment in time, a fabulous moment
never to be recreated

Burning coals in the sky are too garish to be
retained permanently, though the sacred
memory lives on in the mind…