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[Image by Hannah Timms, courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Just Once

Once in a lifetime, the fog will be kind 

to you, 

absorbing love laughter and too, pain

like a smokey dragon, 

inhaling instead of exhailing, 

so much so, 

your mind is muddled to a squash, 

delicious only if cooked to right consistency, but leaving you 

absent of the hunger needed for a repast, 

then you realise 

without the hunger, the anguish and the longing

for what isn't 

you lose nothing.

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

 Poetics: Once In A Lifetime 

 ‘The Window’  by .Mary Jean Chan here

Challenge: Re-read and explore Chan’s poem,  particularly the use of line breaks and caesura to build rhythm and evoke emotion, and the three-word movement: “anger is like the sun, which is like love”.

Now write a poem in the first person, beginning with "Once in a lifetime"

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AUGUST IS STEELPAN MONTH 

HRRE IN T&T🇹🇹 

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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[ Choy Moo Kheong, “Echo Through The Canyon” (2024). Courtesy dVerse Poets Pub Acrylic on Canvas, 152.4 × 101.6 cm]

How they did stare eyes peeled to the evening sky, an eclipse is what they wanted to see. Too bad for them, there was no eclipse, on this occasion.

Molten light sparkles like stars in the night and the iridescent image swims

through a mirror that flows into time, that serpentine meander of fantasy and realism.

Yet they stayed, sitting on blankets, wrapped in shawls, eyes wearing fantastic googles, approprate sheilds.

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

 Prosery—Luminous Accountings 

Using a line from “King of the River”  

to use in a prose piece

and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows

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HRRE IN T&T🇹🇹 

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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[The Circle Theatre by Edward Hopper, 1936: courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Staid

We should just stop here,

For healing and sustenance,

Are all contained in this block;

The empty billboard -

Is it a sign of no stars?

Is there no one good enough?

What is important,

That will surely be obtained,

Excesses - not important;

Even the clouds, look!

Seeming quiet and staying,

While folks, are roosting indoors.

© gillena cox 2026

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  Open Link Night #413 with Live Edition 

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Raining - A Fold

 It's raining it's raining i close the window

Well, because only that one was opened

Sweet and low

My eyes snapped a blossom

But  before i close the window

I look up at the sky

There above not below

Crying its heartfelt rain

In the rainy season's sun glow

Steelpan music all day long

Irregardless it's raining, i close the window

© gillena cox 2026

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 dVerse Poetics — Have You Ever Seen the Rain? 

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[AI generated]

 Jumping In

To jump or rather not to jump,

I fancy my thoughts would 

Contemplate, before words 

Enter a blank page 

Having had the mentorship of 

The words, the punctuations 

Then would bravely follow. 

Comma is the contemplating sage 

The jumps is an adventure after all 

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

 Quadrille #353: Jumpstart your Poem 

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[AI generated]

 No Nada

Even if i'm sad

I will not cry

Enough is enough

My station is empty

Should morning evade birdsongs

I will not scowl

Nor shush the daymoon away

When it rains

I will not join in

With my lonely memories

Caring for yesteryears

Is it not the nature of life

To spin changes through

Ever occuring joy and sorrow

No i will not make a fuss

 © gillena cox 2026

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

  

MTB – Just say no (again)

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[ Green marble, rice paper and wandering skipper, butterflies from google]

Butterfly Fold

Two butterflies scallop through my garden

They seem to have great fun

They fly high and fly low to sadden

Even the sun in their playfullness 

I would display there in my garden

Had i known their names

Maybe i could ask a warden

Neither Green marble, Rice paper nor

Wandering skipper, i beg your pardon

Just two whites skipping and tasting

Sight of butterflies two in my garden

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

  Poetics: But no, a butterfly 

To choose at least 3 butterfly names from a given list to compose a poem

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