Mary Quigley

Mary Lenore Quigley, founder of NCAP-North County Authors & Poets (2004), an organization that promotes San Diego authors and poets, is the author of two novels: "God Danced" and her memoir "Indelible Ink"; one book of poetry, "By Fools Like Me" and several chapbooks.

A New Song ...

Clouds cover the early eastern sky
Yet something lifts her sleepy eyes
To that measure of morning's dawn
Where mist drifts dreamily down
The still drowsy hillside.

Faint, yet audible, she hears the symphony
And tries to discern which instruments
Carry the billowy new notes.
Is it the hawk lifting, extending,
Brushing nighttime from its heavy wings?

Or, perhaps the feathery fog strumming
Along low hanging Willow strings?
It could be the creek lazing down
And around moss covered pebbles
As dawn fills the sky with nursery hues.

Each day, she hurries from slumber,
Opens the door and waits
For a new song to reach her ears.
Some days black quarter notes
Skip across the horizon like Spanish castanets,

Crows punctuating the sky as they hurry
To their morning hunting peaks.
Other days, like today, only the mourning dove,
Inconsolable in her pleading,
Carries morning's unforgettable cantata.