Sunflower at Sunset

You gather every fading ray
before darkness dominates.

Until sunrise, you search eastward:
the promise of reviving light.




Sunflower at Sunset © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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18 words (prompt limit).  Sunflower at Dusk brevity challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782672-Brevity...-18-words-or-less

For more about sunflowers turning toward the sun:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/how-sunflowers-follow-the-sun-day-after-day.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved

Submitted: July 4, 2021









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