Feeling
the
first
sun
is
the
beginning
of
the
greenness
in
the
trees
and
grass.
It
is
the
happiness
the
unfurling
of
the
new
as
if
a
dream
has
just
taken
root.
—
Daniel Barbare has been recently published in Rapid River Magazine. A few of his poems appeared in Wild Mountain Times in North Carolina. He has been writing nature poems for 43 years.