VERSES: October 2023

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

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"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Options And Choices

What do birds sing of

If not the arrangement of day

Each a new and gifted legacy

To do what with and leave behind

In yesterday.

When all is stated, narrated, said;

Still, there is no conclusion;

Only options and choices,

To act out and deem the day

Lived

© gillenacox 2023

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Poetics: A Bookish Mood/a>

Prompt: to choose a dead novelist or poet, one whom you have recently read or is simply a favorite, and write a poem on a work of theirs.

I read Middlemarch a few monts ago with my bookclub

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Monday, October 30, 2023

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Autumn foliage from Pinterest

Fall Is Not Just A Season

I remember falling in the street;

I was not dizzy, it was no treat.

Falling on the church steps,

Be assured, there was no vortex.

In the car park, after lunch;

And after such a good munch.

Street smart and healthy,

I remember falling.

© gillenacox 2023

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Its Quadrille Monday

Prompt - Write a quadrille (44word poem) Fall is the required word

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 418

By By October

You've heard about the Monday Blues

well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea).

Friday, October 27, 2023

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[Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia from google]

Meloncholy Misery: Or The Scream In My Dream.

Dark place;

The stumble through dreamscape,

Falling falling dropping, into

Nightmare;

Scenes borrowed from screen dramas

Backdrop a canvas of muddy fright figures;

Suddenly, omnious weapon of death threatens;

Is this then the end, the way to go?

Steeped in despair,

Surrender should quieten this black soul of depression;

Only, the surpise of flight and a scream ensues,

The transport to reality hones questions such as:

Isn't this want you wanted when you decked yourself for a pity party?

How now then;

The unwillingness to accept the Fates' gift to nothingness;

Ah but:

Absolve, is a gift of guarding angels

© gillena cox 2023

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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[rose gif from Pinterest]

Too much blood has been spilt;

Too much lives have been wasted.

Time to give peace a try;

Time to talk not kill one another.

Share a sapling to grow a tree;

Share a hug to comfort and soothe.

Make planet earth proud;

Make her wobble and spin happily

Sit at the table round;

Sit and sip with a sentence.

Change heal renew humankind;

Change for brighter histories and futures.

© gillenacox 2023

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Poetics: Why war?

Prompt: to write an anti war poem

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Monday, October 23, 2023

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[From Google...the garden of saint paul's hospital ('leaf-fall') by Van Gogh, 1889]

Maybe if he were at home, he would be caught under layers of paint literally, instead of looking out the window, as if enchanted, deep in autumn's meanderings.

A divine hand seemed to be mocking him, with tons and tons of yellow leaves painted to trees just a while ago, would have been green. And he, in his melancholia lost to staring at all that yellow.

stirred emotions --

leaves go a-whirligig

in fall gangs of wind

© gillenacox 2023

##Since in my clime there is only Rainy Season And Dry Season i chose to write an ekphrasis, in the haibun form.

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Haibun Monday 10-23-23: Fall foliage or Spring blossoms

Prompt - Write a haibun that alludes to either Fall foliage or Spring blossoms.

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 417

Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing hot days with some Stormy-day interludes.

You've heard about the Monday Blues

well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea).

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

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[The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin 1789 – 1854 from google]

Our Swelter

We swelter in a spell of hot days,

Not knowing what hell is, yet

Giving affirmation to heat and its ways.

Will our minds expand to set;

Standards, none of which exist?

Scientists warned of climate change,

But verily some insist,

That scripture seeks our spell to range,

Between good behaviour and bad;

All is lost are the sayers of boom,

Lets make their faces to look sad;

So we kill and ambush to our doom.

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Meet the Bar by writing from a collective point of view

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

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Vincent van Gogh, Window in the Studio (1889) courtesy dVerse poets pub

To Our Dismay

There is in the wall a window appalled;

Shutting in or shutting out installed

Questions, those

Puzzlers, even

The mind most peacefully set, is enthralled.

© gillenacox

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Haunted

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Monday, October 16, 2023

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Way Of The Wind

Let's see how this chapter enfolds.

I've always wanted to go on a visit,

To see the age old cherry trees,

In the Japanese festival.

To catch a sakura petal in my hand;

Or bask in the tremendous splendor

Of flowers carpeting a wonderland.

©gillenacox

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Quadrille #186 – Fold

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 416

Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Spell

You've heard about the Monday Blues

well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea).

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

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image from google

A VOICED READING OF COLD SNAP for today's OLN

Revisit to read Cold Snap HERE

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

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[image courtesy dVerse poetry]

Soup Of The Day

Soup of the day bubbling hot

Whose the owner of this pot

Bubble bubble if you must

We all know that it is just

Corn and pumpkin that's our lot

© gillena cox 2023

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Poetics: Time for Soup!

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Monday, October 9, 2023

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An Inhertitance

Large pumpkins heavy like alien suns lay sprawled in the patch of garden. The old farm house had been neglected for too many moons. This was the perfect time to regain her inheritance. She had roamed the country far and wide here is where she belonged.

Halloween was fast approaching. She opened the creaking door of the wooden barn. This place needs a coat of paint she mused. She checked her carving knives. All that she needed was hère.

Pushing her hands in her pocket she pulled out the last stick of gum, carefully unwrapped it and stuck it in her mouth and began to chew. You cannot pluck moonlight to bring in your pocket, she mused. Mmn this taste like apple.

© gillena cox 2023

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Prosery: The Voice of Helen Hoyt

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 415

Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Spell

You've heard about the Monday Blues

well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea).

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

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Five Lines In A Copybook

On the first line i will write my name.

Teacher ask for date;

Day, month and year,

Followed by subject;

Maybe my address should be next.

Second line question:

What year is it?

To tell all will be to expose

My age, though i have no qualms there.

My house is in the country.

Third line will be poetry,

Written with a capital P,

About yellow hills,

Painting a canvas of small words;

No 52 on the road where i live.

The secrets of line four of this Chaguanas girl,

Will soon be exposed to

All in the class room,

Reading aloud to some snickers,

All in a day's English class.

The fifth and final line

Summons applause like

A limerick written to shake

The earth under a rose bush miles away

Here in San Juan; we students had planted

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MTB: Writing The Five Directions

CHALLENGE to write a poem in five stanzas of five lines per stanza (quintain)write as a Pentastich Quintain (unregulated rhyme, meter etc)each stanza is one of five ways to your house (real or imaginary)can be literal or metaphorical, measured in time, direction, etc or a mixthe title is your own choice but must begin: “Five…………”include a reference to Hererra’s poem somewhere in your post, include references to Herrerra’s poem by including the follow words in order in each of my stanzas: 1 yellow hills; 2 canvas door; 3 the earth; 4 desert secrets 5 a name.

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