Dawn Parting

Pushing aside the fluidity of morning,
you’re aware that outside day is dawning.

You’re half asleep, dreams flutter on your lashes,
unaware that a brand new day is dawning.

Woken by a blackbird singing in the garden,
your eyes open to the gentle day’s dawning.

Stretching and yawning, you rise and dress,
in preparation for another day’s dawning.

How eager Kim’s lips as she kisses you goodbye,
and you mourn her parting into another dawning.

Kim M. Russell, 8^th April 2025

On the eighth day of NaPoWriMo 2025, the featured resource is the Museum of Bad Art, and the optional prompt is ghazal-based.

The ghazal originated in Arabic poetry, is often used for love poems, and consists of five to fifteen couplets that are independent from each other but linked.  The lines all have to be of around the same length, and both lines of the first couplet end on the same word or words, which then form a refrain that is echoed at the end of each couplet. The example given is Patricia Smith’s ‘Hip-Hop Ghazal’.

Our challenge is to write our own ghazals.

 I’m home after another hospital procedure, not really up to writing a new poem, so I’ve reworked an old draft from 2016.