Using the same poem you can change the tone of the theme.

You can change theme emphasis by changing emotion.

Here are two examples of what you can do.

Sunlight sneaks through the curtains

bathing the room in slithers of light

I stretch and blink and turn away

I see the end of the bed getting clearer

the hump of our toes under the duvet

like a batch of smokey chimneys.

The bottles on the dressing table start

to march across the surface in irregular groups

I hear the beat of their feet their silibant whispers

the light pushes in further fighting the shadows

stridently announcing its presence

asserting a new day a new day

as I pull the duvet over my head.

Version 2.

Sunlight pushes through the curtains

bathing the room in beams of light

I stretch and blink and turn away

the sunlight flirts with the contentsof the room

the hump of our toes under the duvet

appear like the Rocky Mountains.

The bottles on the dressing table start

to pirouette across the surface

chased by errant sunbeams

I hear the beat of their feet, their giggles

as the light creeps catlike illuminating them

in the mirror as they call new day new day

I stretch smile and leap out of bed.

Can you see how diction can change a pieces emotion and toneFrom chilly miserable and disconcerting. To happy.

Mary B.