AM Hours

A poem about the solitude found in the wee early hours of the mornin

Am Hours

The traffic light it whistles
With it's serious yet subtle sound
The wheel stops and stiffens
As it grips onto the ground

The lights flicker and falter
As the current fades away
And the lamps are now not needed
To light the fading day

My Train of thought is like a wave
That does not break on shore
It is these AM hours
Which I truly do adore

Author's Note

Written a couple of years ago as part of a long lost collection entitled "Poetic Autopilot" and re-written from Memory

Reviews

[Wórdsmíth]

Some moments you`ve captured into the words. Morn`s always been the greatest one to divine the shades of life; barren roads & it`s quiet interesting to get a chance to write such stuffs on "A.M" hours. Nice imagery!

[Daniel Maguire]

Thank you very much, it's the time of day during which I think my best thoughts

[Wórdsmíth]

Pleasure, well.. yeah, me too find this time the best one when the heart & mind get manipulated by the thoughts. Do you write daily in that time?

[Daniel Maguire]

I don't know if I would say i write at that time of day, but a lot of things come to me walking home after a night out

[Wórdsmíth]

Most of the professional writers too say (when they`re asked `bout their writing time) that they do write right after waking up in the bed having a hot cup of tea; sitting nearby at the window & devout 15-30 minutes daily to write whatever hits in their heads first. Me too find this time very cool because, i`ve myself happened to experienced it.

[Daniel Maguire]

Things usually just come to me out of the blue and then vanish before I can make it to pen & paper. I used to drink an Irish coffee, listen to jazz and type on my Grandfathers typewriter. I always just ended up drunk with no writing to show for it

[Wórdsmíth]

To me, the thoughts come across the presence of life but yeah... they easily get vanished.. if I don`t let them swag ov`r the pages of life. Coffee`s & Tea... these two are the good remedy for "writing". Have you published your stuffs out the web?

[PloughBoy]

I couldn't agree with you more, Daniel. It is in the wee, early hours of the morning that my muse is most active. The quiet stillness, the serenity afforded at those times while everyone else is sleeping is very refreshing.

An excellent verse, with some great examples of alliteration. Nice flow, rhyming and tempo when read aloud, as I do with all poetry I review to get the artists full effect.

Nicely done.

[Daniel Maguire]

Hey man thanks I had to re-write it from memory so I wasn't too sure about parts of it but I'm glad you liked it

[PloughBoy]

The pleasure was all mine, Daniel. Well done.

[Zanne]

I like this, I've always preferred the morning before sunrise, they are by far the nicest (though loneliest) hours of the day.

[Daniel Maguire]

Thanks I'm glad you could relate to it

[AlisonJohnDoyle]

Parts of this echo the way Dickinson writes, but I like it.