Dawnings
no good will come
By Nicholas Hooper
no good will come of hopelessness now
the life ahead is a life wanted
and through every tangle of wrongs
must come a ray of light
I am here, I say
and you, and you, and you
tomorrow will be followed
by the next day, and the next
and the thread of life will ravel and unravel
as the seas surge and swell against the land
shaping and reshaping our world
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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