Qualities Of Light Poem by David Whalen

A certain gauzy luminosity
In the dawn of a summer day

The diffuse, dispersive quality
As morning breaks… across the bay

That almost palpable morning spark
In a young girl’s liquid eyes

Dawn’s nascent glow… ‘neath night’s dark
Of star and moonlit skies

Golden haloes drape oe’r mountaintops
Beams peeking shyly through the valleys

Columns of crystal, piercing thunderclouds
Chasing darkness… down empty alleys

Filtering through filigree lace of old lady’s windows
Spotlighting dust motes dancing in air

Mirrored in tresses of maidens and widows
Reflected in highlights of grey and blonde hair

laths of lights, rise lazily toward the beams
Through cracks and splits of sun bleached wood

Old barns and sunbeams not always what they seem
Early light, … prismatic rainbow… oft misunderstood

Display the might of new sunny day
Then blazing bright…away with the night!

So much more… then one can say…
of…The many, curious qualities of light