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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Judith Vaughn reads her poem at its conclusion.
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Forest Flower Sunrise/Sunset
A black orpheus, Charles Lloyd, calls the sun to
waken, to sleep, with his horn. Music her very source.
She rises in the east, her radiant eyes open
the dawn light, fanfare streams across the land.
In the stream golden yellow, red-orange koi swim
in a pond, glance at the reflection before them.
In the stream pink porpoises frolic to the light.
Music with all its colors shimmers above.
In the stream great pandas feeding their young
stop. A morning ritual broken as they listen.
Sun sets in the west, her arms fold on the horizon,
her eyes close as black night descends.
We join the stream of music in sun’s descent.
Softly into morning glow she rises again.
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Listen to Judith Vaughn read her poem
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Judith Vaughn lives in Sonoma, California. She is a member of PoeticLicenseSonoma who read their poetry the 4th Tuesday of each quarter at Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol, CA; and Redwood Writers’, a branch of the California Writers Club.
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Listen to the 1966 live recording (at the Monterey Jazz Festival) of Charles Lloyd performing his composition “Sunrise,” with Lloyd (tenor saxophone); Keith Jarrett (piano); Cecil McBee (bass); and Jack DeJohnette (drums). [Rhino/Atlantic]
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And…from the same performance, his composition “Sunset”
[Rhino/Atlantic]
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