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[Muchacha de espaldas, Salvador Dali. From google. Fair use
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SOUNDLESS SILENCE
Colour of silence is dawn, just before roosters
sound their crowing. Smell of silence is night rain,
when earth rises to meet tears of cobalt clouds,
flattened into shadows of sky. Span of silence is
unfathomed eternity stretching on and on and on
soundlessly.
SOUNDLESS SILENCE © gillena cox 2018


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Sounds of Silence
Prompted by Dwight Roth

Revisit
31 July 2017
silence 2016
silence 2015

Monday WRites 165

[I used images from the internet to form today's mosaic, fair use]


A GORGEOUS RED GOWN
After her fabulous moon party where she donned her gorgeous red gown, on July 27th, shadow dancing with earth and her other guests, today finds Ms Moon a waning gibbous holding on to about 94 percent of her roundness.

a morning clear and bright -
birds songs betwixt rosary beads
add to azure's tone
© gillena cox 2018

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Good Morning, its the last Monday of July 2018, This year is moving at such a pace.
Did anyone view the eclipse of July 27th. I didn't. I read about it and slept through it all.
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Ruby Tuesday Too -


Revisit
30 July 2017
Moon 2016
Moon 2015


Enjoy The Music

Monday WRites 164

MADAM POINSETTIA

a flower adorns
the season of Christmas -
poinsettia blooms
Suddenly, as if by some sort of magic, Anansi found himself in the rainforest of Mexico. How he got there...[page 17 excerpted from 'Anansi and The Twelve Days of Christmas © gillena cox 2018]

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Ruby Tuesday Too -Storefront


Revisit
The Little Seed and His Brother
Third Planet from the Sun
Under the Chinaberry Tree

582

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SEVEN ROSES
Seven roses to consider
Seven years of poeming
Seven roses to consider
Seven words to google
Septet septuple rondelet
Seven seasons of sharing
Seven roses to consider
SEVEN ROSES © gillena cox 2018


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Septets for dVerse’s Seventh Anniversary
Prompted by Frank Hubeny

REVISIT
19 July 2017
'Fox' Rondelet
...an August night

581

[free clip art from Bing.com]


CLOUD POWER
Soft as cotton candy
Misty
Moody as a femme fatale
Shift shaping
Dragons fly and Magi store
Laughter

Where do oceans get her fill -
Swelling her ever-pregnant belly;
From rivers, streams, drains
And these in turn from
Source

Clouds of azure
Clouds of Overcast
Clouds of storm
Clouds of power

Soft as cotton candy
Misty
Moody as a femme fatale
Shift shaping
Dragons fly and Magi store
Laughter
CLOUD POWER © gillena cox 2018


Blog hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Greatness
(in honor of Nelson Mandela International Day 7/18/2018)
[Prompted by Susan]


Revisit
...shape shifting 2017
18 July 2016
...morning cloud 2015


Enjoy The Music

580

[dove free clip art from Bing.com]

WHO KNOWS
Can an itched be solved?
Scratch that question
Why little bird asleep on my doorstep
Rest still after daybreak whistlers
have done calling?
Perhaps just a tired dove,
Perhaps angels do sleep,
Perhaps just common happenstance.
Who knows where wings will roost little birds.
WHO KNOWS © gillena cox 2018


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Happy 7th Anniversary & Quadrille #60
Prompted by Grace.

Revisit
17 July 2017
flight of a dove...2016
17 July 2015

Monday WRites #163

A GREEN MUG
A green mug, from which i sometimes drink:
soup, tea, coffee, reminds me that this precious gift,
we sometimes call life, so multifaceted,
it aches my bones to think there are some of us
who still want to waterdown flavours to only,
yet bittersweet dreams of strife, strained
to the gregs of a history's future days.
A GREEN MUG© gillena cox 2018



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Congratulation to France World Cup Winners 2018
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Shadow Shot Sunday


Revisit
16 July 2016
COFFEE MORNINGS
tea and ixoras 2015

578

DOWN TOWN
'Times the Cathedral bells still ring to summon attention
Some prayer still remain trapped in its hall, on its pews,
In its arches above, hopefully rising ever so sloooowly

A spire finger pointing clouds on puffy azure days
Remaining cold silent and reticent in many overcasts
To gaze vagrancy asleep on Woodford Square benches

Downtown Port of Spain when the season of Poui trees
Silent in splendour rival the bells of the Cathedral
When the sunshine stings our conscience to remember

We do remember days of the soapbox verbous campaigner
Who later packed the childrens' futures into their schoolbags
Cramming their little heads with big dreams of statesmanship
DOWN TOWN © gillena cox 2018

'Trees Woodford Square'. You can play this Puzzle online




Blog hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ City
[Prompted by Sumana Roy]


Revisit
Woodford Square a haibun
to the Woodford Square trees
this poem is a city


Enjoy The Music

Monday WRites 162

PATTERNING A NEW DAY
To paint the patterns of morning
Bird songs canvas the art of daybreak
Wind daubs the colours of dawning
Lightening sky with tints of clouds and
Shrill whistles to patterns of morning
A host of feathered choruses sound
Flowers lift cherry faces of praising
Then why not you and i our hearts to
The gift of new day in our welcoming
Faith another station to the structure
Add to paint the patterns of morning
PATTERNING A NEW DAY © gillena cox 2018

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Macro Monday: Leaf


Revisit
New Day 2015
...feathered friends 2016
Clouds of morning 2017

Monday WRites 161

INTENSE
After a day of intense World Cup football, we here in T&T were served some intense stormy weather: complete with lightning and thunder. This morning its bright and sunny. And in my area, looks like it never rained at all last night. As for the flowers the wild ones, the planted ones, they all seem to be smiling a littler brighter this morning

who loves the rain most-
surely
the flowers do
INTENSE © gillena cox 2018

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Hello July we are into the second half of the year
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Macro Monday 2: Datura


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Blue Monday: Numbers



Revisit
speed of lightning
stormy gusts
rain showers