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Today’s prompt springs from the form known as the aubade. These are morning poems about dawn and daybreak. Many aubades take the form of lovers’ morning farewells, but . . . today is Monday. So why not try a particularly Mondayish aubade – perhaps you could write it while listening to the Bangles’ iconic Manic Monday? Or maybe you could take in Phillip Larkin’s grim Aubade for inspiration (though it may just make you want to go back to bed). Your Monday aubade could incorporate lovey-dovey aspects, or it could opt to forego them until you’ve had your coffee.
This poem started life as a long, thin, one. Then I decided a potentially crowded day would be better expressed in longer lines with no punctuation. Working Mondays are a memory for me now, but it’s still easy to feel overwhelmed by the rest of the stuff. Choices have to be made …
Aubade – Dawn Chorus
You could get up spring clean dust wipe polish
check voicemail email texts bank balance
tweet post facebook status instagram selfie
watch news hear headlines read straplines
call friends make breakfast feed family
commute negotiate contribute to the team
or …
you could turn over and listen to the dawn chorus.