Vadim Stein 

“The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun and burn.” ~ William C. Hannan 

Ali osman Ak

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

’tis morning, ’tis morning…

Jackson Carvalho 

The mist has left the greening plain,
The dew-drops shine like fairy rain,
The coquette rose awakes again
Her lovely self adorning.

The wind is hiding in the trees,
A sighing, soothing, laughing tease,
Until the rose says “Kiss me, please,”
‘Tis morning, ’tis morning.

~ Paul Laurence Dunbar

One grateful thought…

Carmen Moreno 

“One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.
A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.
A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday – for gratitude is light against the darkness.” – Smile Anyway

Photography, Carmen Moreno

Wake..

“there is the rocking of hips,
a gentle pressing of lips,
my hands splayed on your chest,
fingers along the curve of my breast,
because when I am not wide awake,
it is my dreams that you do make.”

–Julie Grace

(Image by Tatiana Mikhina)