Thursday, January 30, 2025
1248
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
1247
Easy Peasy
NAME: she scribbles on the form,
Use this basket for completed forms,
Completed means you can leave the form,
She arose from her seat, form
In hand, near the standup fan,
Can i help you? asked the clerk,
Remove your pen from the clipboard,
"Sure" she replied.
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
1246
Delish
She cut a slice of
The warm sweetbread,
The butter melted quickly
Into the aroma of the slice .
She bit happily into her treat,
Hmm, her nose actually quivered,
A hint of nutmeg,
Her favourite spice,
What' s not to love
About this afternoon's snack?
© gillena cox 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
1245
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
1244
A CHANCE FOR FRESH IDEAS : Erasure poem
What will you quit?
Quitting dosen't mean you lack perseverance;
This sudden declaration,
This announcement
Will offer a chance,
To seize this moment of transition,
To foster growth.
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
1243
Fires ablaze, the winds rough enough to spread mayhem and catastrophe. People left homeless. Such is the mood of January in LA as a world watches and weeps at the plight of one another
Power shifts and power sits. With its quota of conspiracy theories on an important and significant day of memories
One significant question is posed: “where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
In Trinidad and Tobago the vibe is hot and busy. Preparing for the street event of Carnival where a State of Emergency lurks in the shadows overseeing crime and criminal elements detrimental to life and peace. This truly is a world of chiaroscuro. © gillena cox 2025
“where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”–From Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” is to be used in our prose or flash fiction write today
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
1242
Yet Another
The sounds of last year fights
The eve of New Year;
Booming noises, sparkling lights,
Questions arise,
As sounds of last year fights:
With our hope spirits,
Will it be better even if in slight?
Pondering is always the mood;
As this margin in time so slight,
Becomes the reality of yet another,
For sounds of last year fights.
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, January 13, 2025
1241
The Situation
When their ship left harbour,
Those sailors were already lifted,
Voices echoed in risque shanties
Out there on seas unending
Rough wind and waves befriend
Birds may squark, but to them
Was not music enough.
Anchor lifted to sounds of men
Tied by situation.
© gillena cox 2025
Friday, January 10, 2025
1240
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
1239
Silent beauty, Taenaris catops;
Monday, January 6, 2025
1238
Rain and rain and more rain. To round off The Rainy Season, to add a contrast background to Caribbean Christmas trees sparkling and blinking, indoors and outdoors.
The choice to be festive like the Christmas trees transfering your hope into the radiance of lights, or go for the gloom the misty grey clouded mornings, seeping depressed days into the soul.
rainy season ending
with 9misty morning clouds -
Christmas trees blinking