Tuesday, November 7, 2023

1116

 

Visa Card

My smile is as broad as it is wide,

Its perfect and its genuine,

'Somewhere in the future'

 The signpost reads.


All my books are in every bookstore,

And kids say look mum

I want this one;

Mum smiles too, as she reaches for her visa card.

  © gillena cox 2023


Option 1: Take a few minutes to create your own Time Machine Bucket List. Try to come up with ten or so of them. Once your list has been completed, go through it one by one and let the one that speaks to you be your choice, and write a poem about it.

ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
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 REVISIT TO READ


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Monday, November 6, 2023

1115

[Image courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

A Secret Wish 

She; across the seas, had heard about this relative since she was knee high. They said he was a tyrant and a boisterious no good fellow. He valued only his opinions and thought that he alone should  have a voice.

She left him high and dry. Search high search low, he couldn't find her - his wife of  three years. Three years was more than enough time for her to admit she had made a huge mistake. She made good trusted friends, saved some money and found herself somewhere else to live.

Here she was in the big apple for the first time. It was November. And her curiosity proded,  to see this creature everyone wanted to stay away from. One of his wife's friends reluctantly agreed to take her there; but in her mind she was thinking, snow would be the easy way out.

© gillenacox 2023


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Prompt -Use the lines in a  prose not more than 144 words
‘Snow would be the easy
way out’
 

REVISIT TO READ


ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 419
HELLO! NOVEMBER
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).  
verses

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

1114

[carnations from google]

Quietly Away

She set sail into that ether sea

With nary a goodbye nary a wave

Seems she knew there had to be

More than this earthly green cave


Prayerful countenance compare

Non to be as she was dear


The smell of bread baking follows me,

Ever to every bakery where,

Non can acheive her fait accompli;

My mother now rests at peace.

© gillenacox 2023

#Elergy for my mother - Mrs Mary Mitchell; (30th May 1930 to 7th July 2021)




ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
❧✿❧


 REVISIT TO READ
[Card from Pinterest]


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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

1113

 [book image from google]

"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Options And Choices
What do birds sing of
If not the arrangement of day
Each a new and gifted legacy
To do what with and leave behind
In yesterday.

When all is stated, narrated, said;
Still, there is no conclusion;
Only options and choices,
To act out and deem the day
Lived
© gillenacox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Prompt: to choose a dead novelist or poet, one whom you have recently read or is simply a favorite, and write a poem on a work of theirs.
I read Middlemarch a few monts ago with my bookclub

ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
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 REVISIT TO READ
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Monday, October 30, 2023

1112

 Autumn foliage from Pinterest


Fall Is Not Just A Season

I remember falling in the street;

I was not dizzy, it was no treat.


Falling on the church steps,

Be assured, there was no vortex.


In the car park, after lunch;

And after such a good munch. 


Street smart and healthy,

I remember falling.

© gillenacox 2023


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Prompt - Write a quadrille (44word poem) Fall is the required word
 

REVISIT TO READ


ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
❧✿❧
 
THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 418
By By October
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).  
verses

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Friday, October 27, 2023

1111

[Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia from google]

 Meloncholy Misery: Or The Scream In My Dream.

Dark place;

The stumble through dreamscape, 

Falling falling dropping, into

Nightmare;

Scenes borrowed from screen dramas

Backdrop a canvas of muddy fright figures;

Suddenly, omnious weapon of death threatens;

Is this then the end, the way to go?


Steeped in despair, 

Surrender should quieten this black soul of depression;

Only, the surpise of flight and a scream ensues,

The transport to reality hones questions such as:

Isn't this want you wanted when you decked yourself for a pity party?

How now then;

The unwillingness to accept the Fates' gift to nothingness;

Ah but:

Absolve, is a gift of guarding angels

© gillena cox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
❧✿❧

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

1110

[rose gif from Pinterest]

 Too much blood has been spilt;

Too much lives have been wasted.


Time to give peace a try;

Time to talk not kill one another.


Share a sapling to grow a tree;

Share a hug to comfort and soothe.


Make planet earth proud;

Make her wobble and spin happily


Sit at the table round;

Sit and sip with a sentence.


Change heal renew humankind;

Change for brighter histories and futures.

© gillenacox 2023


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Prompt: to write an anti war poem

ENJOY THE MUSIC 
Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas
 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.
❧✿❧

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