Thursday, May 22, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
1282
[image made with Bing AI generator]
Shane
I never knew his pedigree. Did he even have one, i know not.
I remember his colour though, white. It was i who named him Shane, after a Western movie i had seen in the cinema.
Today i really do not remember the nature of the character Shane, but i do remember, that dog my first pet.
welcoming me back
his wag tail at the bus stop -
returning from school
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
1281
[ArtFromElenaV, google]
Quadrille Quiet
Quadrille Quiet
Rain in torrents
Daylight dim
No birdsongs sent
Given from Him
Rain and floods
Reading time
At home or at odds
quiet as a mime
TV lady talks
Of moisture in the air
Under umbrella walk
All is fair
And loud rain in torrents
© gillena cox 2025
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
1280
Fill my cup with
tasty aromatic coffee,
for morning light has struck
a pose in the sky,
vanishing cobalt tones
to later and anon
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
1279
[image courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]
Animo
Swamped in state of apachurrado
I felt i had no where to go
Except in the direction of ecabronado
That for a looong time was so
Until i came to wise ni modo
Absorbed in the ways of church once more
What ensued was merciful animo
Now i care for nothing more than
That facinating estrenar
See what the Lord has done for me
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Words I Used
(Given a list of words from I Have No Word in English Fo By Sandra Cisneros (The New Yorker print edition, September 16, 2024)
Apachurrado. Hat run over by a truck. Heart run over by unrequited love.
Estrenar. To show off what’s new gloriously.
Encabronada/o. A volatile, combustible rage.
Ni modo. Wise acceptance of what fate doles.
Ánimo. A joyous zap of fire.
Monday, May 12, 2025
1278
[image made with Bing AI generator]
“Calling Things What They Are.”
If you are sad say so. If you are happy let it show. Being straight saves a world of misconceptions, lots of time wasted, and more best results.
Don't call tears raindrop, or smiles up side down frowns. Calling things what they are, is the best way forward. Leave poetry to the poets.
Life gets real when you face it head on. I have no skills for flight or wings to skim the waves effortlessly, like the wind itself. A balloon is a balloon. A spade is a spade.
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Challenge: To include the line
“I have no skills for flight or wings
to skim the waves effortlessly, like the wind itself.”
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
1277
[image Georgia O’Keeffe, The Black Iris (1926), oil on canvas, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, gift of The Burnett Foundation: courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]
From the atelier window,
I looked out to be absorbed,
By an iris, an abstract work
Of God in the evening shadows,
A vanishing point of day,
Not just a sunset, but more so,
A polychromatic overlap of emotions,
This was the expressionism gift
That later artist would receive
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We got paintings by Georgia O’Keefe
as well as a selection of words to use in an ekphrastic poem.
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