Dawnings
Present
By Nicholas Hooper
To live in life now,
mind nowhere else,
seeing and feeling,
moving through air
from place to place,
smelling and hearing
just now, just now,
if you want to be here
then be here, be here
and long for nowhere else
as your mind strolls through
endless images of past and future,
come back, come back to now
and see what you have.
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper