Toward the Sun – a poem by Ray Greenblatt

Toward the Sun

As we grow older
our bodies as well as minds
seem to  turn toward the sun;
even the sunflowers
at dawn yearn upward,
we hear their petals
whisk by the shutters;
curling up a trellis
morning glories flick
off the early dew
to crane a look at the sky;
what we all hope for
--I like to think—is
the streaking of a comet
or the twinkling of a star
that should not be there.



Ray Greenblatt is an editor on the Schuylkill Valley Journal and teaches a “Joy of Poetry" course at Temple University-OLLI. His newest book of poetry is From an Old Hotel on the Irish Coast (Parnilis Media, 2023).