A morning in December we were bicycling to work when dawn broke with with the most amazing gold. Dusk settles early, but it’s wonderful to meet the daylight on your way to work, but day begins and nothing gold can stay:
© Björn Rudberg
Nothing gold can stay
Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
You might have noticed that we favor words for the Quadrille that can be used as both nouns and verbs. Or maybe you would like to make it dawnlike.
Dawn is also a great word that can be used as a metaphor for change. Change is something happening, and we might anticipate, or we might fear it. But one thing is clear changes come and changes go, just like one day follows another.
So as usual the challenge today is to write a poem using exactly 44 words including dawn in the main body of the text. Visit and read the others. Write a second or a third. Have fun.
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Good evening… here it’s well past dusk and not yet dawn. Quadrille me poetry on dawn to bright my night.
Wonderful! I love quadrilles and dawn is a great theme.
I think we need some brightness at the darkest time of the year. (or the darkest year…)
It’s not looking rosy for many people, is it?
Maybe still for most… but we need the darkness to see the ligtht
If it goes on too long though, we forget what it was like. One happy quadrille coming up 🙂
Such a lovely photo and poem Bjorn ~ Dawn is such a hopeful and promising word ~
Happy Quadrilling everyone!
Yes I felt we needed a happy word today.
Good evening Björn and thank you for hosting tonight! I love your photograph of the dawn and have linked a simple dawning on shared dream journeys :o)
Ah.. Love to share a photo that made sense… It’s the background photo for my PC now.
Ah a lovely uplifting prompt. I was feeling a bit Eyore, so be forewarned.
Ha… for some a daybreak can be the worst of things. “Today I woke, which destroyed the day”
Perhaps #2 will balance that out…
Thank you for the prompt Bjorn—your photo is fantastic and I enjoyed the Robert Frost poem. Dawn is a beautiful word and as you say, an integral part of our lives as a verb and an event.
Thank you. The photo was pure luck, I have passed the same place for many years and never before the light have been that way.
Hi All…pulled out a poem from a darker than usual place but it is what it is…It’s been such a busy time I missed the last prompt but I will try and read what I can and perhaps pen another poem this eve.
Welcome Paul… it is darkest before dawn..
Hi Bjorn…kinda my theme with a twist.
Oh lovely. We need some pink and goldness at the moment, some light on the horizon. Looking forward to reading these.
I really thought we needed a dawn today,
Good evening Bjorn and the dVerse Poets! I’ve just got home from a wonderful anniversary meal and am ready to post a poem inspired by the dawn. I’ll have to come back and read in the morning and am looking forward to it.
Congratulations Kim… and yes I look forward to your poem
today, I felt the need to write a sonnet. 44 words made it challenging, but I always love a poetic challenge!
A sonnet in 44 words… that’s a squeeze…
We need some light at the darkest time of the year….and dawn does it for me! Thanks, Bjorn….
We do need all the light we can get…
The darkness is overwhelming right now….on all fronts.
Thanks for another great prompt, Bjorn. I always enjoy the Q, but this was one of my favorites to write.
I loved your entry, and yes the Q is always fun to write to.
I will not wait up until dawn so now I’m heading for bed.
See you tomorrow ~
Inspiring photo, Bjorn. If I join in, can I use your photo and give you the credits? 🙂
Looking forward to your share Olga 🙂
Late to the party. Back later to read. Happy writing to all.
Great to see you De ~
Lovely prompt and photo, Bjorn. 🙂
Hi Imelda 🙂
A gorgeous sunrise indeed, in the photo! May we all experience a beautiful new dawn, no matter how unlikely it seems right now. (Isn’t it always darkest before…?) But it’s only an incidental aspect of the problems uppermost in my little world right now.
I hope it won’t be even darker…
Always a good day to let the light wash over you!
We love any daybreak.
Happy Birthday Bjorn 😀 hope you are having an awesome day, sharing my poem “From dusk till dawn.” Hope you like it ❤️ I will be back later to read and comment.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
Thank you Sanaa… Birthday almost over… but it’s been a good day.
Well I finally did it – used all the words. Once in the order of the quadrilles, and again in reverse order. I probably won’t do it again, but I had to try it this once. (I mean this twice.)
I’m really impressed Rosemary… wonderful pieces…
I’m a day late, but I may write another! Love these! Happy Birthday Bjorn! (Facebook reminded me.) Many happy days friend!
I hope everyone has a good week I will be around to read these, so much fun! Hugs!
The monday prompts are open a lot longer so links will keep coming.
I’m so happy about that. I’m finally getting back into writing (keeping up with the prompts) since my break last fall.
I came late to the party — and I read it’s a birthday party at that!
So happy birthday, and my timid 2nd quadrille. Tho the dawn is not as beautiful as your photograph.
Hello Lorraine… Birthday is coming to an end.
Remember — you have 364 unbirthdays in which to celebrate as you choose. (Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland)
Thank you for this. I’m trying to start the day off with a bit of hope. 🙂