Chasing The Sun

Photography: Jetta Marie

Poetry: Jetta Marie

Gratitude Of The Day: Being able to start each day chasing the beauty of the sunrise, and keeping that beauty in my heart for when the day starts to get challenging. Photography has given me new, happier eyes, and in learning to see beauty through my camera lenses, I am learning to see it in through my "gratitude goggles" too. 

Chasing The Sun

As it rises each day,

At sets each night,

I make my meager mortal attempts 

To capture moments of the sun.

Though I know I can never succeed

My attempts to hold its colors,

Its warmth,

Its life, 

In that small window of time

That I have to photograph its peak

Bring the first

And last rays of gratitude for each day

The colors I do get

The moments I get to freeze 

Of its incredible awe,

drives me to do what I do;

To wake in the wee hours of night

So that I can be in place 

When it reaches that perfect place

And its colors are the Epiphany

 Of what perfection is

And a reminder of the beauty 

Still vaguely visible in our world today. 

In my journeys to chase the sun

I have succumb 

To a much calmer way of life;

An understanding of myself

And the world around me

That I never before 

would have noticed

 nor acknowledged if I had;

Had I not begun each day

With the warmth 

Of the morning ambient light

And a reminder that the world

Is not completely dark just yet

The darkness surly

Would have consumed me.

Oh, to start my day 

with the warmth of the sun

And gratitude in my heart;

In chasing the sun, 

I have learned to accept myself

And this world,

And appreciate the beauty 

That still surrounds us. 

For it is there 

For eyes willing to see

And it is that glorious sun

That breaks the darkness

And will allow us to see

The marvelous still present

In the lives we lead. 

Search for the sunrise!

Start each day with a light in your heart

And something joyful 

To hold onto when life bares its weight.

Cling to the shred of bliss 

That started your day,

And let that moment of grateful thinking

Be your guide to finding 

The beauty 

That always surrounds us.