"At My Desk, Beside the Window" by Frequent Contributor Lauren McBride

At My Desk, Beside the Window

                 "An hour lost in the morning is chased all day."

                                             --Variation of a Yiddish proverb

Voluntarily waking to an

alarm clock at this hour?

You might think I've lost

my mind; except in

the dark, pre-dawn stillness, the

alluring quiet of morning,

I can work, uninterrupted. This is

my favorite time, sleep chased

away by coffee, night yielding to dawn, all

colors of sunrise vying to announce the day.

--Lauren McBride

Poet's Notes: This poem follows the Golden Shovel form, where each line ends with the words from a quote. In the true form, the quote is taken from a line of a poem. Here I have used a variation of a Yiddish proverb that my grandmother used to say.  A memorable poem I read in Songs of Eretz introduced me to this form: "Get a Real Dog" by Sylvia Cavanaugh http://eretzsongs.blogspot.com/2017/03/nooks-and-crannies-by-sylvia-cavanaugh.html.