[Van Gogh image courtesy dVerse poetry pub]
Aroma of a sautee lingers
On night breezes;
Layers of romance lighted
By moon not at all shy.
Peeled away like an onion,
Desire waned, to succumb
To heart's solution;
Of not what is, but ought to be.
Storing your embrace to memories,
I turn from onion
To matryoshka dolls,
Treasuring every sequence.
© gillena cox 2023
APPRECIATION FILLING
Hunger is such a wasteful occupation
A useless penny on the sidewalk
A penny for your thoughts echoes worthless care
Appreciation throws itself into fits of
Falling kudos like night sky fireworks
Flattery wider than oohs and aahs
Take care not to surrender your thirst
To muddied water stagnant like a toad
Squelching underfoot the sound
Of wooden sapats when children walk gingerly
Over the mud a plank spans thoughts
Ripe for making of wise decisions
Eat slowly from the bowl of knowledge
Hunger is such a wasteful occupation
© gillena cox 2023
Cast to a windy day
All resolve is spoken in the colour pink
And consciousness knows no kindness
How many rocks need be stationed
To the rigors of love unrequited
How many hearts smashed on the altar of
Fruitless strawberry bushes
Should she stay there bruised
Like grapes underfoot
Like garbage strewn
Like an eight day week
UNREQUITED © gillena cox 2023
There at the very edge of longing
A glass of water pursued her lips
Ruby like bunched grapes
From a compote hanging
What is it to quench perseverance
Purposed of passion's desire
It is but a glass of water
In the middle of reverence
© gillena cox 2023
STEAL AWAY
Those times when sandy beaches
called out our names;
So loud and clear, we answered,
with aeroplane rides;
When the bloom of love flowered
in every season;
To steal away was natural,
it was so easy.
© gillena cox 2023
Poetics:Vacation reminiscences
