How can you describe a sunrise?

Do you like sunrises and sunsets?  I do!  But I know that as a writer it's difficult to describe them!

Here's the start of a poem by the American poet Emily Dickinson about a sunrise:

I'll tell you how the sun rose

A ribbon at a time

The steeple swam in amethyst

The news, like squirrels, ran...

She is so creative in the way she uses metaphors ("A Ribbon at a time" and "The Steeples swam in Amethyst").

As an English tutor, I love to help students with their descriptive and creative writing.

My Hartland English Guides  distill over 30 years of teaching. I use their content in my online tutoring and they are available to purchase as ebooks.

You can find out more here.

Photograph: sunrise over Dartmoor, Devon