Dawnings
Roundabout
By Nicholas Hooper
Round about, sometimes life is a roundabout
as I round about to write or play or eat or sleep
and I go round about my house
and round about my garden
but is it the same
ever the same
as other roundabouts
meet my roundabout
and there are so many millions
and millions of roundabouts
that it will take eternity
for it to be the same
though it may feel the same
it never is the same
never, never, never the same
so look as each roundabout changes
and the biggest roundabout of all
the huge and spinning world
changes and changes
and changes
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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