A Rhyme for Grown-ups

I enjoy writing for both children and adults.  Sometimes, an experience or piece of writing I’ve done for grown-ups will inspire a children’s book.  This is a poem that preceded the writing of the children’s book Rainbow Nights. I must have been having a pretty good dream the night before I wrote this poem!

Morning Bird

I was basking in the slumber
Of night’s repose
When morning bird appeared
And threatened to impose

In the shadows of a dream
His singing beckoned me
Calling me to earth
When I longed to be free

 To explore and create
Beyond all space and time
In kaleidoscopic worlds
Limitless, sublime

 Cease your revelry, I begged
I must prolong this night
For dawn will soon arrive
To end my dreamtime flight

 For a time, I lingered
In the place where worlds combine
Which was true reality?
Both earth and dreams were mine

Then gently I returned
With the rising sun
As morning bird proclaimed
A new day had begun!