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OF PAIN LIVING QUESTIONS
Moon of the morning,
Misshapen, how is it
You watch our pain unflinching?
Are you birthing our pain?
Lingering there? Moon of the morning.
Fixed is your stare.
Is it dare? or are you warning
Us to come out seek the light?
For life, is indeed of living;
In joy, or of its retreat,
Still to shine, Moon of the morning.
OF PAIN LIVING QUESTIONS © gillena cox 2018

Revisit
3 May 2017
...to mask the pain...
3 May 2015


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden.

Bits of Inspiration ~ Frida Kahlo
Prompted by Susie Clevenger. Challenged - For today's challenge choose a quote, a photo, one of Frida's art pieces as inspiration or like Frida, choose yourself to paint with words

ENJOY THE MUSIC

Monday WRites152

[all internet images used in this mosaic. Fair Use]


UNDER MILLION STARS
Wine me a heady sweet muscat
Bright moon sentinels no chat
Music me with guitar strums
For night of repast surely is at

Dance you stars in somber sky
While we amazed to wonder fly
By whispers sweet and sensuous
Fill our tryst with arduous high

When sated love uncovered now
Wrap entwined its fantasy cow
Trinket poems in garlands strung
Like lamplight to moth staying vow
UNDER MILLION STARS © gillena cox 2018

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HAPPY MONDAY. And last day of April. 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 #152, ❧✿❧ What's your mood like today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites




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Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day. Phew our task ends today.

Thirty poems in April: a final in verbs
Prompted by Brudberg: Challenged - Take some nouns and use them as verbs and put them into a poem. Unlock all the objects, let them dance, let them swirl.


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# 83


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REVISIT
30 April 2017
tryst 2016
30 April 2015


Enjoy The Music

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[image: James Amstrong - Pan; from google dot com. Fair Use]


his first big competition

this wasn't the school concert hall
these were strangers called the audience

he could hear them cheering
just before the curtain rose
that's when he fainted
STORY OF A PAN MAN © gillena cox 2018


Revisit
29 Apr 2017
29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2015


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

Fireblossom Friday : This Is (Almost) The End
Prompted by Fireblossom


ENJOY THE MUSIC

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['broken hearted' BY chris bradley; Fair Use]


ARCH OF COLOUR
If i curved a question into arch of colour,
Would yellow be the taste on my tongue?
With sweet aromas of tomorrow, to her
Bosom cling, like spring time daffodils?
If i bridged raindrops into arch of colour,
Would deep overcasts, shoot innocence
Into wretched despair? To sadden mothers:
Gut, joints, blood, bones, dust, and tears;
Into scenarios, macabre enough to holler,
Enough! of horror from gadgets loathsome.
Let love alone; rainbow into arch of colour
ARCH OF COLOUR © gillena cox 2018




Revisit
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2017
a 2016 Fold


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

Fashion Me Your Words to FOLD ~ In April
I am prompting today


ENJOY THE MUSIC

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[image courtesy imaginary garden today]


When i jumped on the bannister with my cute style,
All the boys were frightened but only for a while.
The girls with their pigtail,
Wanted i to sway without fail.
But boys are the hearts i won there with a smile.
© gillena cox 2018

Revisit
27 Apr 2015
hands of a child 2016
witch 2016


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

Day 27 - Let's Join the Children...
Prompted: Margaret Bednar. Challenge Write a new poem... always adored children's artwork and recently attended an exhibit which highlighted some pieces that have received awards this year...

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image from Pinterest


DOT LIMERICK
Once there were five dots wanting to be four.
So they went in haste to the grocery store.
There were melons and bananas,
And tomatoes singing Hosannas,
But nary a dot minimizer ever there to score.
DOT LIMERICK © gillena cox 2018



Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

A list with a twist
Prompted Imagined By Isadora Gruye. Challenge Write a list poem of five. Five of anything.

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[image from google dot com; Fair use]


KINDNESS UNSPOKEN
A smile a nod, not a word said
Such is kindness on a day foul or fair

A smile a nod, not a word said
Gentle hand outstretched received in prayer

A smile a nod, not a word said
Soup steaming hot in the belly of hunger bare

A smile a nod, not a word said
Umbrellas shared in a drizzle with flair

A smile a nod, not a word said
That hug, dearly departed laid to rest, for fare
KINDNESS UNSPOKEN © gillena cox 2018


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unending green the leaf of trees

unending vibe of hot sweet kaiso
even on days prescribed to be holy

Caribbean sunshine
always overhead, around us
and in our warm hearts
Story of Ever-Summer © gillena cox 2018


Revisit
25 April 2016
25 April 2015
sweetening bird songs 2015


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

Virtue or Vice
Prompted by Rommy. Challenged: to consider virtues and vices, or more specifically the Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Heavenly Virtues. The Seven Deadly Sins are Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. The Seven Heavenly Virtues are Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness and Humility. Your poem must include at least one of the names of the Virtues or Vices (and I know several of you will be tempted to use more than one - that's Pride right there).

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Midweek Motif ~ Summer
Prompted by Sumana.


Enjoy The Music