At long last “Missing Sunrise” saw the light of day early this morning.

The author shared with his audience last evening that he sometimes lies wake in the middle of the night with “compound words” in his head that compose themselves into a verse or poem. “Sleepy-head, lazy-bones, slug-a-bed” was a combination of three such words that had come to him a few days before, but they were just sitting there in in iPhone, not yet born into a verse. When he shared it this morning, he said, “Let no sleeping doggerel lie…”

Verse– Missing Sunrise

Sleepy-head, lazy-bones, slug-a-bed,
where were you when the sun raised its head?
Purple and violet, rosy-red:
you lie there like you’re already dead…
Get up and greet the day! Live instead
of hiding–cat and dog must be fed!
Alarm dinging, birds are singing, led
by sunlight bringing New Love ahead…

– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL

Thanks, Steve, for a wonderful evening at last night’s Dialogue here in Minnesota.