Dawnings
sometimes night
By Nicholas Hooper
sometimes night takes over day
as dawn stretches back to midnight
and dark silence greets me with its solemn presence
still struggling from that dream state to waking
the words come from a different place
and I wonder where I’ve been
and where this is going
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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