Sunrise

Sunrise
Sunrise on Sunset Beach

Index of Poems

Journey, Travel:
Journey to Embarkation
Kilauea to Sea
Haleakala
Sacred Rainforest, Disturbed
Egyptian Sunrise
Jessica's Blessing
A Friday Morning Devotional in Iglesia Evangelica Metodista
The Memory of a Summer Postcard
A Sunday Afternoon Island Dream
The Diminutive of Grace
Yangtze Blues
To Go to Patagonia
The Night Music of San Rafael de Guatuso
Boothbay Gray
To the End of Haight (earlier version titled "Haight Plus Forty Four")
Heading South on a January Adventure
The Girl's Guava Tree
Waiting for Advent in Istanbul*
From the Deck of the New Horizons
To Cross the Northern Tier - The Mountain West
To Cross the Northern Tier - The Great Plains
To Cross the Northern Tier - Lake Country
To Cross the Northern Tier - The Great Lakes
To Cross the Northern Tier - Appalachian East
Morning After My Fifty Year Reunion
Inner Sunset, Morning Rain
Stumbling Toward a Brampton Manor
Dawn Dreams in a Glasgow Cafe

Spirituality:
Haleakala
To Bring You Beauty
Telemachus Tends His Driveway
Advent Reflection on Light
Heron in the Wood
Awaiting Passage into Fall

To Heal the World - Mat Meditation 1
To Heal the World - Mat Meditation 2
Between Birdsong and Boulder
An Old Field Encounter
Autonomy, a Prayer
Afternoon Joe
The Second Soul of November
Jessica's Blessing
Cosmology, Beyond the Elegant Equations
Compassion Lies Outside the Land
A Way Out of Wilderness
It Takes a Great Naïveté
An Overture to Adam in Strings and Sax
A Friday Morning Devotional in Iglesia Evangelica Metodista
A Springtime Promise
The Dueling Harmonics of Unending Fall
The Diminutive of Grace
The Night Music of San Rafael de Guatuso
In Praise of Imperfection
To the Poet, Too Soon
To Mothers Watching Offspring Part
To My Daughter, Turning
Light Bodies
Lessons for the Fallen
The Comfort of Fading
The Short Side
Cold Rain Comes
A Way In the Wilderness
A Prayer of June in Green and Brown
Cloud Play in White on Blue
Watching After August Rains
Weeds Have Names
The View from Grandma's Kitchen
The Ache at the Edge of Autumn
The Harmonics of Fall
Waiting for Dawn and the Sunday Times
Heading South on a January Adventure
Fractal Shadows
The Girl's Guava Tree
A Springtime Apparition
A Prayer for Angie
Last November Sunset
A Winter Blessing
Reading on My Back Deck One Balmy Winter DayOn the First Wave of Spring
A Dream of High Spring

Family:
To My Two Year Old Daughter a Quarter Century Later 

A Farewell to Summer 
Old Riverside Oak 
A Summer Morning's Leave
To Our Children Leaving Home
Cathedral Dreams in Salt and Sand
The Memory of a Summer Postcard
Ladies of the Lake
To Mothers Watching Offspring Part
To My Daughter, Turning
Catkin Time
Summer Lakeside Grace
The View from Grandma's Kitchen
The Sense of Cicada

Inner Sunset, Morning Rain
Christmas Baking

Outdoor, Sports:
A Way In the Wilderness

A Way Out of Wilderness
False Memories 
To Run the Wild Beast

Knowledge:
Winter Clarity
The Reality of Sunsets
False Memories

To Make a Poem Live
Cosmology, Beyond the Elegant Equations
An Overture to Adam in Strings and Sax
To Go to Patagonia
The Spell of Elegance in M-Theory
To Remember a Moment*

Nature: 
Kilauea to Sea
Haleakala
Sacred Rainforest, Disturbed
Heron World
Heron in the Wood
A Way Out of Wilderness

Between Birdsong and Boulder
An Old Field Encounter
Cathedral Dreams in Salt and Sand
Yangtze Blues
Vacuum Collapse
In Praise of Imperfection
Boothbay Gray
The Short Side
Catkin Time
A Prayer of June in Green and Brown
Cloud Play in White on Blue

Watching After August Rains
Weeds Have Names
The Ache at the Edge of Autumn

The Harmonics of Fall
To Remember a Moment*
The Sense of Cicada
A Springtime Apparition
The Crown of Creation Has Arrived*
After the Next Rain*
The Eternal News of Early June*
Last November Sunset
To Make a Frost Flower
After the Storm
Morning After my Fifty Year Reunion
End Times, Again
A Winter Blessing
Reading on My Back Deck One Balmy Winter Day
Myrtle Warblers
A Dream of High Spring
The Business of High Spring
When in Late May
On the Care and Feeding of Rodents

Mortality:
Journey to Embarkation

Heron in the Wood
A Farewell to Summer
Old Riverside Oak
Awaiting Passage into Fall

A Summer Morning's Leave
The Hawk is Hunting
Vacuum Collapse
An Ode to Aralee
Catkin Time
A Prayer for Angie
Heart Scars

Political:
Raking Fall Leaves with Paul and Camus
Waking to Vertigo
Egyptian Sunrise
On the Fate of Unloved Facts in the Pursuit of Public Discourse
Compassion Lies Outside the Land
Two-Thirty Bedside Blues
Old Hipster Slow Rockin' Blues
Tryptophanic Sugar Buzz Blues
In the Aftermath of an Engineering Binge
Lines Composed While Fleeing an Unpacked Garage During Fall Cleaning

*Note - poems marked with an asterisk are published on a parallel private blog. To view these, please send me a brief note (bobambrosejr@gmail.com) and I will add you to the list of readers.