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[Caris Reid, “Liminal Lunar Water Watcher,” 2016; courtesy deVerse poetry pub]

Door to Decision

Here, in this space between sweet and salty,

A fruit called mango hangs from a tree.

Should one pick the tree dry,

Deciding there and then, what a bountiful crop!

Some can be used to curry,

Some left to ripen,

The possibilities of sweet and savory,

As wide as the Caribbean Sea,

As boundless as every man's sky.

The door to decision remains open,

So choice can just walk right in,

No humbug no hindrance.

Put some in a pie!

The Grackles will flutter about for scraps,

And morning songs will still be sung by Kiskadees..

Door to Decision © gillena cox 2024

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Dance of Unicorns and Dragons: a quadrille

To desire or not;

That is the conundrum

Of tomorrow's figment,oft

Stored there in fantasy.

For flights of unicorns and dragons,

know no woes,

Strangled once in labels

Of madness, few dare to expose.

Still few escape to survive 

Reality in another realm.

Dances of Unicorns and Dragons © gillenacox2024

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[Art of Catrin Welz-Stein]

Choice of Words

The words have chosen not to lie still 

Frozen in time and history,  

Not to conform to some printers will,  

But instead to frolic and gambol. 

Teasing, cajoling, near a windowsill; 

Like a cat to a bird on the other side,   

When days of rain seem to fulfill,

Dreams of a hunt with no misery

Of the hunter's unsuspecting thrill.

Choice of Words © gillena cox 2024

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Art by Catrin Welz-Stein

 Trading Places

Wisdom, they say belongs to

The owl, a creature of night

Glaring in the dark, to hunt to

Rummage to hoot its songs.

How can a stranger fit into this

Scene? clearly only by bending

The light, making wisdom her 

Own, and trading skirts for feathers

 Trading Places © gillena cox 2024

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 Tomatoes on every plate

Tomato a limerick poem

She named the precious puppy tomato

Though his colour was more like potato

He would wag his tail 

When you gave him a hail

She didn't care much for avocado

© gillena cox 2024

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[image from Bing]

Kiskadee - a magic 9 poem

Kis  kis  ka deee! kis  kis  ka deee!

This song is their name.

It is not just for me,

The kiskadee bird sings this song,

In the morning you see.

It is because birds open the day,

With bird song, whatever it maybe.

Because it is their aim,

Calling in the daylight for you and me.

 Kiskadee © gillena cox 2024

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 Wed In Red - a magic 9 poem

She a bride wore red

She didn't conform to the day

Of white veil that led

To travails of aisle and crown

What a pity her friends all said

They are so beautiful together

But their vows were civil-ly read

She let them have their say

Yet she the bride wore red

Wed In Red © gillena cox 2024

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