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CONTEMPLATION ON A COUCH
Sometimes a surprise is painted in bright colours
To seep through the windows of a dull lonely gaze

In the stillness of seemingly inertia
A change propels the momentum of a wider view

Look beyond the skin the flesh the bones
Deeper maybe a soul lurks somewhere hidden

Shut tight behind a golden bolted door which
When a sincere knocking was ever wrought opened
CONTEMPLATION ON A COUCH © gillena cox 2017

My Poem Inspiration
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth


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Fashion me your Words~The way you see it
I am the prompter today


Revisit
23 April 2015

387

[image from Google dot com]


AFTER COFFEE CORNFLAKES
Don't discard the cereal carton Tony.

Let me shape words for you.
High,
To clouds touching steeples,
Knowing seams of adhering.

Curved, like a slow steady gaze;
Far,
Into vast tomorrows,
Where heartbeats sync.

Forming shadows, bold and daring,
Play;
Rhythms of sunlight to ribbon,
Pale cool slow moon kisses.

I shape my words for you, Tony;
Round,
Like rings in eternal galaxies,
Where only laughter resides.
AFTER COFFEE CORNFLAKES © gillena cox 2017

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Poems in April - Poetry through the eyes of Carol Ann Duffy
Sanaa is prompting- The object of this challenge is to write about love, using a common everyday image

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Revisit
19 April 2016

Monday WRites 104

[image from google dot com]

RENEWAL
Streets lights go out,
I swear by those invisible threads

Morning birds carry through the air;
Singing their age old choruses,

Weaving their patterns of destiny,
For earth, as her wheel spins on cue,

Her angels, traditional patterns
Must continue, in renewal, in repair.
RENEWAL © gillena cox 2017

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Revisit
17 Apr 2016


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Over // Under // Through

385

[Raphael, 1516–1517. Christ Carrying the Cross;
from Google dot com]


CRUCIFY HIM
Tag him hustler, for soul's ransom
Label him scammer, for healings done
Seize him
Nail him to a tree awaiting

As for Barabbas the prisoner, free him
For wishes of mob must we accrue
Then in a tomb stash away folly
For such as is the mark of history

Now for limitless celebration
As a bridge we shall sell to angels.
CRUCIFY HIM © gillena cox 2017

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Get Listed - April Ain't Fooling edition

Monday WRites 103

[Holy Week Clip Art from Google dot com]

HOLY THIS WEEK
Of The one so holy
We dare ascribe a span of days
Insufficient
To the measure of being

We dare ascribe a span of days
Diligent in our liturgies
Notwithstanding
The sinfulness of our nature

His mercy gifted
Happy in our remembrances
HOLY THIS WEEK © gillena cox 2017

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10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2015

383

3 POETS TWEET (AND GIGGLES)
the chamber door
a rustle of purple curtains
oh curious midnight !

By the merest chance
Edgar; do you have a cat
named 'Jennyanydots' ?

praying the rosary
dawn falling away in my garden
I espy
new flowers on an old shrub
I could wear that colour lipstick
3 POETS TWEET (AND GIGGLES)
© gillena cox 2017


Process Note
The poem goes like this:
Edgar Allan Poe tweets, from The Raven to T.S. Eliot, who reply-tweets from his The Old Gumbie Cat. Then i tweet using motifs from Saturday night to today, Sunday midday.
After church yesterday evening, a stray cat slinked through my front gate, before me. Then last night
I dreamt that my neighbourhood was turned into a wasteland, there i stood in my dream-defiant mode:
i wasn’t leaving; so i pulled out my cellphone, called my husband and complained. Old grey dreadlocked wizard that he was, he quickly whisked me back home. So here i am folks, out of dreamscape today Sunday. I prayed my rosary this morning. And i'm here with my tweet poem sharing now.

Blog hopping today at

Twitter Me a Gothic Poem

Magaly is prompting today. She has asked for: a new 3-stanza poem, where each stanza contains 140 characters or fewer and follows these guidelines: the 1st stanza will be a tweet from one of the thirteen writers listed below. The 2nd stanza will be a reply to the first tweet, by a different writer from the list. The 3rd stanza will be your reply/input/commentary to the exchange between the two writers.

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Revisit
9 April 2015

382

[Child and Mask, 1955 by Kaoru Kawano;
from Google dot com]

RICE CAKES
A smile rules the doll's house
A story now is told
Ever a cuddly audience
Assembled there to hear

The Buddha sits in silence
Rice cakes set in his plate
The sweet scents of incense
Rise to dissipate

When sticky little fingers
Of a urchin standing by
Edges close to Buddha's plate
His rice cakes to deplete

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garden Buddha
incense and birdsong
an offering
for ancestor's tales
retold in Spring buds
RICE CAKES© gillena cox 2017


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Kerry Says ~ Let's Paint a Picture
Kerry Gives the option to choose works from selected artists and write a new poem using the technique of Ekphrasis.

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Revisit
7th April 2015