New day
After Mary Oliver
Its newness greets me
in the simplest of ways.
A
breeze lifting
plump bushes
of purple heather;
overblown tulips,
nudging
one pink petal
loose
from its bowl of light.
Perhaps more will fall
when darkness
hugs the mountain.
Birds sang in chorus
as the sun rose.
I didn’t hear them
but how exciting
to know
wild creatures
make music
while I sleep. 
Baroque Dawn -- David Lloyd Glover
Mary Oliver began writing poetry at 14 but did not publish ger 1sr collection, "No Voyage and Other Poems," until 1963, when she was 28. Her 5th collection, "American Primitive," won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984, and her "New and Selected Poems" (1992) won the National Book Award. Most of her poems dealt with nature.
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