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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Quadrille: pass the pepper please 

HOT LIKE HELL

Someone picked peppers by peck. 

So i read a long time ago. 

That's quite a mouth full of peppers to speak. 

I wonder, 

Were there any scorpion peppers in that peck.

Here in Trinidad and Tobago, it is those brave, who would taste it. 

© gillena cox 2023

AND

Mosaic Monday #33

REVISIT

29 May 2019
29 May 2017

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 397
Hope You Had A Happy Month of May.

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (Capsicum chinense) is a chili pepper native to the village of Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili at that time, with heat of 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs).

[ info from the internet]

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HIDING IN THE HEAT

Best stay indoors with whirring fan;

Siestas at anytime take.

These sweat-soaked days dazzle the mind,

But butterflies still loop along.

Brillance of sunrays on glass

Best stay indoors with whirring fan.

Buses, houses, cars, shop windows;

Everywhere a sparkle of light;

Watermelons at the sellers;

Can lure us out into the street.

Best stay indoors, with whirring fan,

After you've made a purchase.

There are words a-whirling around

In the mind, with caution gather

A few at a time, to poem

 with. Best stay indoors, whirring fan.

 © gillena cox 2023

REVISIT
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20180525
20170525

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

Poetry Form: Quatern

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Paintings by artist Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937)

 Then One Day - a quadrille

Pressed petals distort the glamour

of courting years,

When words were fresh and unfurled with such ease,

The ghosting of love poems,

Matched his vanishing.

She wasted years, wasting away;

Until one sunny day,

Shielding her eyes from the sun,

She ventured out resolute.

Then One Day - a quadrille © gillena cox 2023

REVISIT

20160523
20160523

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

An Artist Gets His Due/

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Memories Echo Their Truths.

It seems so very long ago; guess because it really is. Faces of two small children and a husband and i, filled this space called a home.

Spilled toys out of place to adults, but just where they should be to kids. Paint brushes, pencils drawing papers on the dinner table. That's not where an adult should leave them. Well anyway it's not what adult husband and father in the house thought.

Seems things were always out of place, but really, they were all in place, in time, in a harmony juxtaposed with the way it was and should be.

Now a lot of space fills that space; and memories echo their truths. Time was back then; when family was scribbled in the mind of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son.

raindrops echo

the music of today -

what of tomorrow

© gillena cox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Haibun Monday 5-22-23: Memory

AND

Mosaic Monday #32

REVISIT

22 May 2019
22 May 2019

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 396
Wishing all a Happy Month of May.

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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 gillena cox photo

Ah! here we are again. Another OLN, another chance to hear voices live. I always prefer to read an oldie and today's  is from 2015. You can read it HERE 

Now Listen to my reading

Blog hopping today with

OpenLink 339 May Live edition Edition 

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[photo courtesy dVerse]

WHATS IN A NAME

I looked in the mirror

To see what i could see

I saw a beautiful lady 

She was staring right at me

I asked her name

She said her name was self

Self i thought to myself

What an odd name for a lady

© gillena cox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Quadrille: Mirror Mirror on the Wall

REVISIT
20180515 

20170515 

This is Monday WRites 395

Wishing all a Happy Month of May.

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

❧✿❧

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sunset: a 2021 photo by gillena cox

MUNIFICENCE

 For nougth but day, the light doth shine;

 Stars move in easy pace, to spaces bound;

 Look not toward heaven, with sad divine;

 Within the mind, there dwells, honed report; 

Thy heart, cherubic as the light doth shine;

 In this, the transience of mortal blight 

Why searcheth far away, to places not of thine; 

Here now he dwells , while amongst as afar;

 A wasteful effort, an insult, the searching

 tine; 

The wild daisy thrives in heat and wind,

Generous charity, for the light doth shine.

Munificence: a Fold © gillena cox 2015

 [first posted HERE ]

 REVISIT
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20160511
20170511

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

Open Link Night #338: Summer is Coming!;