Dawnings
A morsel
By Nicholas Hooper
A morsel of truth
would be good today
if I could find it
a grain of knowledge
of the spiritual world
I wouldn’t mind it
But the surly of time
brings a wall to my mind
and things finish and finish
row upon row
as the landscape contracts
to an accumulation of facts
and my mind longs for the small
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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