Fill my cup with
tasty aromatic coffee,
for morning light has struck
a pose in the sky,
vanishing cobalt tones
to later and anon
© gillena cox 2025
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
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.
© gillena cox 2025
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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
© gillena cox 2025
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We got paintings by Georgia O’Keefe
as well as a selection of words to use in an ekphrastic poem.
Monday, May 5, 2025
1276
[image courtesy, dVerse Poetry Pub]
Tangle - Quadrille
Untangle this,
If you should miss
The opportunity, to
See groups of two
Colours, their strands
Relating where you stand,
Then the better to see
You, my dear can be
Drinking soup from a bowl,
Red as your dear soul,
Aflamed with filial love.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
1275a
[image made with Bing AI generator]
She-lm
all the newness in the news
tell stories of super gals,
women born to wonderful
rule, rarely letting go of
duty, destined to their lives,
she surely can at the top,
be bold and courageous too
© gillena cox 2025
#Note: Subsequently, The President, The new Prime Minister, and The new Leader of The Opposition are all women.
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1. Poetry formulae for Complex Alliterisen:-
a 7 line poem
2 alliterations on every line
choose a syllabic count of 7 or more thus:
.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
1275
[Martin Jennings’ statue of Philip Larkin (2007) courtesy dVerse poetry pub]
Piercing The Silence
When i heard his shout,
I thought yes, he has returned home,
The bell on the ice cream cart
Tinkled, a hot Sunday afternoon.
Children in the nearby houses
Screamed, running barefooted
Into the dusty country road,
For ice cream, in tubs and on sticks.
Bring me a large plastic bag!
I want to buy some ice cream sticks,
To keep in the fridge,
For when the grand kids come by.
© gillena cox 2025
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