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MOI?

"Me? Why me of all people. Why do i have to leave my house to go on a picnic. The last time i did such a thing my children were toddlers. My husband was smitten with me and the Hollows was as green and eco friendly as God's Paradise. So why now. Why this. Do you owe me a favour i do not know about."

"And bring no book, for this one day We’ll give to idleness." He said. 

And i muttered is he some kind of poet nut or some such sort?

© gillena cox 2022

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Prosery 1/20/20: “The Rock cries out…”
Prosery - Bombarded
Prosery - Here’s the thing about existing

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MARKET PLACE TALES

 Tattletale and Fish scale

Found themselves at the market place.

Tattletale was the one to speak,

There be herrings? let me sneak a peek.

Fish scale, no one wants to take home.

These days of the busy buyers aplomb.

The pumpkins were  rough and pulpy and round. 

Buyers all wanted a cut or a pound.

No one stopped to listen to Tattletale;

Always one for gossip and ale.

Fish scale decides to play it cool,

Laying on the surface of herring smooth.

I'll take the whole fish!

Was a buyers wish,

Who grabbed a cut of pumpkin for soup,

This left Tattletale in a bit of a loop.

Everyone so busy

No time to listen

To gossip or to tales,

Masked buyers at the market space,

For these be pandemic days. 

© gillena cox 2022

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3 poem tweets and giggles
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[Yanda cutting her cake at her birthday dinner November 2021]

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prosecco gets the nod,

for a child carried in the womb, in the heart in the mind.

and she greying, now a half century old, 

who can sit at table with her, and not give the nod

to  prosecco?

the night is cool, the salmon baked,

the stories: some of praise, some of struggle, some of mischief

all of wondrous miracle.

there's a sunflower on the cake

a real sunflower

no-one will eat that, the sunflower i mean;

along with the yellow roses, big and bold,

thanksgiving and heartfelt gratitude is

lifted to divine source.

i am a mother, happily so.

© gillena cox 2022

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gratitude 2020
gratitude 2019

Monday WRites 331

Today's mosaic collection is titled 'Going Going Gone'

I will be taking down my Christmas tree, Christmas curtains and all other Christmas paraphernalia today😀 Hope you had a nice Christmas.

Happy New Year

Hello 2022 glad you are here with us.

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 Muse Cues

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QUADRILLE - MUSE

Amusing, oh how these days, 

Coy of old things, of old ways,

Pulling back and marching forward,

Sound the dawn, with ontoward 

Expletives, of drunkard reverie.

Yes, bars are opened again so verily,

Shadows will walk staggering,

Steeped in oratories slurring

With stories revealing.

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10 January 2016
....present muse
...to my muse

Monday WRites 330

Today's mosaic Jesse Tree days 11 -17. Symbols: scepter, sun, wolf & lamb, whale, lion, Bethlehem, praying hands

Again we await,

a Divine miracle

to Vision the love of God:

ForEver given, unconditionally;

of soN, andsaviour, Jesus

given To be our joy

[page 36 of Pink Crush © gillena cox 2011]

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Pink Crush is dedicated to: my daughter Yanda and son Khama

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Hello December glad you are here with us, AND we are in the fourth week of Advent

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 HAPPY ADVENT

tis my favourite liturgical season 😊

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MW 274 Season of Advent 2020
MW 183 Sunday at the mall 2018
MW 223 Season of Advent 2019

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MERRY CHRISTMAS BACKDROP

World lockdown days;

We got to that state,

Kenopsia:

The paved road stretched out,

Before in a distance of maybe,

One person along the way,

For buildings and buildings ahead.

And slam bang !

It happened here,

After days of annual and usual,

Carnival frolic and bacchanalia;

Aftergloom:

Sharp poignant and instructing.

And here we are today;

A new normal of

Openings vaccinatings new strains like Omicron,

Still teaching us lessons along the way,

Heartspur:

To the tune of Merry Christmas.

© gillena cox 2021

Notes:

Aftergloom: the pang of loneliness you feel the day after an intensely social event, as the glow of voices and laughter fades into a somber quiet.

Heartspur: an unexpected surge of emotion in response to a seemingly innocuous trigger- the distinctive squeal of a rusty fence, a key change in an old pop song, the hint of a certain perfume- which feels all the more intense because you can’t quite pin it down

Kenopsia: the atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

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sweet sorrow 2016
sorrow salts the dust 2015
sorrow with 2016

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Monday WRites 329

Today's mosaic - Jesse Tree days 10 -16. Symbols: coat, tablets, rope, shepherds crook, crown, temple, fire

Hello December glad you are here with us, AND we are in the third week of Advent

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 HAPPY ADVENT

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Quadrille #142 

to write the '44 word poem' using any form of the word tinsel

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS LORE

Adorned the Christmas tree

Tinseled and sparkly

Awaits the oohs and aaws

A Christmas morning cause

Adorned the Christmas tree

Decked so magically she

Is ready for the night before

The eve like days of yore 

To dance for Santa

A jolly little rhumba

© gillena cox 2021

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Chapter 1. Cinnanmon Sticks

tinsel and baubles -

the sound of paper tearing

between giggles

And so it is, that rainy morning, the spidery Anansi, awakes to eight arms full of his two anansi children, tugging at him from every direction; pleading with him to come downstairs, to open a gift under the Christmas tree.[excerpt from Anansi An Unusual Experience by Gillena Cox]

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13 December 2017
13 December 2015
a haibun styled reading

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