When You Wake Before the Sun
March 28, 2021
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[Editor’s Note: After a helluva week / month / start to 2021, JDK is taking the week off for some overdue rest and rejuvenation. He will return with a new post next week. Before he left for his (not literal) cabana and cocktail on a beach, JDK stopped by to give you a poem to tide you over until then. In the meantime, be sure to catch up on all the episodes of “This Show is All About You”, and the Facebook Live recordings that followed JDK’s shows with Tawny Sanabria and Tennyson Jacobson. And, I almost forgot - JDK included a short note for you before the door hit him in the arse on his way out…
Hi, All. I’m out of words for the month, so in honor of the arrivals of spring and more daylight (finally!), here is a poem that evokes all the best of what comes with the beauty of new beginnings. I hope you like it, and I’ll see you next week. Until then - Chins Up, Everyone.
When You Wake Before the Sun
By JDK Wyneken
When you wake before the sun
You’ll see what’s alive before Dawn lights it.
Whatever you need is there for the taking
And the gifts that come will delight with surprise
Even as the birds have not yet awakened to add their songs
To the one your heart plays in harmony
With the final notes of last night’s dream.
You can paint your canvas before
The day even begins its own
And it will find its own divine inspiration
In the simplest splendors you live,
From how you sip your coffee
To your first steps into the garden
To soak in the morning breeze.
When you are your own light
The day doesn’t lead your way;
It can only follow along
To take its cue from you
And then tell the moon and stars
To watch over what it knows is
True beauty
Until you again wake before the sun
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Thanks for reading My Sunday Poem. Here are some important updates from my past week:
Soul Book of the Week: The Heart of the Enlightened by Anthony De Mello
Book On My Nightstand: Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Best Show / Movie I Watched: Everything that wasn’t Zack Snyder’s four-hour Justice League cut. Yikes.
Strongest Earworm Song: “So Alive” by Love and Rockets
Longest Walk / Run of the Week: 5.98 mile walk / 18 mile ride (Saturday)
Favorite Hangout T-Shirt of the Week: This one. Because I want a final season of Ray Donavan.
Coolest Thing of the Week: Finding out my sister is coming to visit soon - it’s been way too long.
Thing I Know Now That I Didn’t Last Week: That honey is the only food that will never spoil.
Most Helpful Perspective / Advice of the Week: “Use your damned Peloton app.”
Current Wanderlust List: 1) Any warm beach; 2) Fenway Park; 3) that erupting volcano in Iceland
