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TASTE AND SEE
Mouth-watering promise, thin, wafer like
Fleeting, yet satisfying, cloud like
Seemingly angelic words, emit light
Or light emitting words, when however
A dream embodies its way in, ever
Never allude to doubt, for surely
Stars are alive. watching, merely
Holding words the weight of wisdom
Yet of ages still to come
That day, that night, that grasp of intervening
Heart hears, mind sears, reeling
On the eons of moonbeams, whirling
Set in proscribed readiness gear
Guardian Faith admonish fear
“Taste and see that the Lord is good”
And yes, its all good,
For a pirouette into constancy,
Now pivots this soul.
© gillena cox


Written for the prompt
Midweek Motif ~ Watershed Moments


My husband whom i loved dearly, left, after seven years of marriage, on the pretext of going away to further his studies. Left me with a broken heart, two adorable children and yes the feeling that he's coming back soon everything will be alright. This feeling phased into a reality of abandonment, fear and disillusion.
Hmm, all that holy water in the font, (i'm Catholic), and i would leave church, still feeling angry; till one very early dawn (1995), i experienced a wide awake, dream like experience, when a voice spoke to me, in a beam of light. That, somehow, transformed me into an enduring faith filled person. Sorry no turning back; come what may.
Though still married, i am living alone, and loving my lonesome life. My children are happily grown, and i'm now a grandmother of a lovely little two-going-on-three-year old girl. I feel blessed, even on the worst of days.

Monday WRites 27

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You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites ( musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea ).
Welcome to Monday WRites #27, ❧✿❧ whats your mood today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites



FORGED FROM THE LOVE OF LIBERTY
Forged a nation sturdy
From the smithy, swelter of dense purpose
The love of country to propel us always
Of liberty we sing, we dance, we worship

From the smithy, swelter of dense purpose,
Mountains peaked in tridium rise
Against strong winds there to fortress
Regaled are we in this land of trinity

The love of country to propel us always
Kindness in word and deed will retain us
On a path of betterment and continuity
Leaving behind a legacy of wise stewardship

Of liberty we sing, we dance, we worship
Bird songs to serenade in azure skies
Oceans resonate in conch shells, as we blow
Breath of each day back to our source in prayer
© gillena cox



"Forged from the love of liberty" is the first line of the National Anthem of Trinidad and Tobago.
❧✿❧Happy Independence Day 2015 to everyone in Trinidad and Tobago❧✿❧
The month of August is also Steelband Month in Trinidad and Tobago






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JOY OF POETRY
Just for the fun of it,
To dance with the shadows on the wall,
Disappearing into the stream of morning,
Right with the life of new light

For the song that thrills the heart
To hear,
No,
To listen to the song bird,
When dawn clambers up the ladder of night,
Fetching the coat tails of dark clouds

The quiet rippling waters, pretending
Nothing of tsunamis dwell here,
Only Neptune, on an obsidian throne
With trident intentions for waves

The fantasy in reality, tearing from
Old books; history, story, memory,
Worthy of a griot's voice, and eager ear
Or eyes, to seek the beauty of an ixora

For wanton pleasure, and absolute void,
Sensing words, in universal spheres,
Where touch is sight, and sight sees
The fragrant day, in a falling blossom.

Truth be, the cocoon buds to bear
The weight of the winds, wafting
With the gravity of saying and telling
Hidden crevices that wing their way out
© gillena cox



Written for the prompt at
Midweek Motif: The Joy of Poetry

Monday WRites 26

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You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites ( musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea ).
Welcome to Monday WRites #26, ❧✿❧ whats your mood today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites



TOMORROW
Escorted on the wings of gift giving
Another day with taste of promise
With the sketch of every possibility
Breaking through a curtain of shadows

Another day with taste of promise
The forever i love yous dwell in this coocoon
A butterfly can have spotted wings silken
If not just to taste the nectar of pollen

With the sketch of every possibility
Bees and ladybugs crawl and bumble
For such as those destined will allow
The day to absorb them in its colours

Breaking through a curtain of shadows
To draw the reflection of clouds over water
That shimmers or ripples but never stands
Still for such is the process of tomorrow
© gillena cox







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CLUTCHING ASSUREDLY
Perched today, a loner,
a daredevil;
Preening, on high voltage wires,
Resting wings for journeys afar,
Taming danger, clutching tightly
With destined claws assuredly
© gillena cox

Written for
Play it Again, Toads!



CHALLENGE to submit an original poem from archived challenges of this Imaginary Garden. I chose Words Count with Mama Zen "Power Image" to be written in 25 or less words
...A power image is an image that a writer returns to time after time. It's part art, part personal mythology, and part creative shorthand. It's a thing, a sound, an angle of light; it's anything that a writer imbues with a greater meaning than it would ordinarily have and adopts as a signature symbol...
Ha!! power lines are in my power write. However it fits the challenge since i had written time and again about birds on power lines (◕‿◕｡)

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ZEE' FANCY DANCE
Zee loves to look at 'Charlie and Lola'
It so happens Zee also loves to dance
Zee can say the spanish word hola
And she is fascinated by leaf cutter ants

Dance Zee dance; dance Zee dance
For Grandma and the leaf cutter ants
Which trinis call bachacs
bach.. bach.. ack.. ack.. fast moving bachacs
© gillena cox 2015


Written for
Tuesday Platform

Monday WRites 25

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You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites ( musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea ).
Welcome to Monday WRites #25, ❧✿❧ whats your mood today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites



PONDERING WAVES
Ever sat at the seashore pondering waves?
Some arrive in a dragon's mighty splash
Some hunch and whimper like tired slaves
Whether calm or fury an ocean to unlash

Some arrive in a dragon's mighty splash
Sunshine beats down on near nude backs
Of the young, not so young, and the brash
Wet toes trudging sand to nibble on snacks

Some hunch and whimper like tired slaves
Cradling knees in the hot barefooted sand
Perhaps a pebble to find, treasure to crave
Bird songs like praises to a glorious land

Whether calm or fury an ocean to unlash
Pearls from below rise in undulations
Watery kingdoms at the ocean floor stash
Such wealth of heaven safe from intrusions
© gillena cox 2015







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