Pic and a Word Challenge #178: All my sunrises

What can I say… I’m more of a sunsetter.

All my sunrises

 To rise and sigh to sunrise,
 to size rays with your eyes.  
 
A sizzling rise from the sun
 where there was none.
 
To be awake for the birth
 of one more day is worth
 
rising with the sun
 at least eight times.
  

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Written upon realisation that I have had exactly eight sunrise photo shoots since I arrived in Italy. Next month will be six years.

Here they are: one is from my parents’ bedroom in Ljubljana, Slovenia, one is from the roof of our home, and all the others are from our garden here is south Tuscany.

How often I went back to sleep immediately after? The sun is not telling.

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  1. The morning of sister’s birthday.

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  World Trade Center, Ljubljana.

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  2. The most recent one: Last day of last year.

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  3. The first one, in January 2016. First I walked bestia.

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  Then I went up on the roof.

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  It was a proper lightshow.

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  And then it came.

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  “Hi, did you miss me?”

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  4. February 2016.

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  A more gentle approach.

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  5. December 2018.

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  With an extra moon or two.

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  6. October 17 2016.

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  The neighbours’ terrace.

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  7. October 17 2017. Yes, I repeated the photo shoot on the same day in two years by coincidence.

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  8. Last May: It looks like I’m flying.

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  Pretty clouds.

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  Above our pine trees.

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  It was the day after my birthday and mom made me this ikebana.

In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #178: Sunrise