Dawnings
Into the dark
By Nicholas Hooper
Not knowing, not seeing
Into the dark
Numb fingers, frozen feet
Into the dark
Life’s alarms are set off
and round every corner
is another shadow, another challenge
as staggering into the dark
finding the way, somehow
we must go through it
not round it, not over it
to find the way.
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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