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NEW NORMAL
Here in the silence, birthing a new normal
Today, life stretches and life ponders,
And life slowly releases, strings informal,
Which binds history and legend, and
All that makes sense, birthing a new normal
Today. This expanse of imagination: fertile,
Vivid, lucid, as wildflowers vital
In and to every sphere of existence,
For the sustainable continuation, shall
Bring us forth mightly wiser, as
Humans, birthing a new normal.
NEW NORMAL(Fold) © gillena cox

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Weekly Scriblings #17: For certain, it's enjambment

[Challenged by Sanaa: today to write using the literary device Enjambment. Feel free to address the current world situation, or perhaps delve into a memory of your own. Challenge the reader, surprise us with humor and wit, go solemn and dark or perhaps tender and romantic. The possibilities are endless! ]


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Monday WRites 243

[in all the photos: Ixora blooms]



Wishing all A Happy Monday
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #243: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Mosaic Monday
#77:Looking Forward


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Haibun Monday
Portrait of Two Masters
Frank prompted that we: Write a haibun that references Basho or Shakespeare (or both!)

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LOVE COMPARED
I shall compare our love to evenings, made mellow in wind songs and fragrant bayleaf, swaying as if mystified, dunked in infatuation.

The breeze is an ardent lover, embracing: tree, flower, leaf branch. It casts spells, whimsical, magical to leaves and petals. Spellbound some fall spinning dazed to tenderly kiss the ground, there to lay as carpets spread.

eventide cooler
than the drought parched dog day -
resplendent Poui
LOVE COMPARED © gillena cox 2020

#Poui a flowering tree
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REVISIT
27 April 2018
27 April 2015

no linky today keeping it simple ..working from my mobile phone..the charger for my lap top doesnt seem to be working dont know why

Monday WRites 242

[in today's Mosaic are origami folds i have done in response to a family fun challenge, via WhatsApp ]

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Wishing all A Happy Monday
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #242: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#76: A Silver Lining


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Quadrille #102 – Don’t Forget To…
THE ICEBREAKER GAME
Game had started
The latecomer's cheeks flushed bright raspberry
Take as many squares as you wish

Toilet paper roll accepted
She took three

No dear, you do not have to go to the toilet
Join the others
To tell us three things about yourself
© gillena cox 2020

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REVISIT
20 April 2015


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Monday WRites 241

[ in today's Inspiration Mosaic all photos mine, edits done in PicsArt]

DAYS OF QUARANTINE.
The open air concert planned for The Promenade, would be the first 'Bandleaders Thank You' to mas players, costume designers and onlookers.
Persons could stream in and stay the length or take in the day's event in parts, choosing what time and which singer they desired to hear.

The days were still sunny and the age old tree branches spread, some in inflorescence. Surely no one would want to sit in this fete. Benches would be empty of those old geysers who came to play draughts for coins, even though they couldn't spend the coins,
not in today's high cost of living. One had better have some dollar notes if needed to buy a loaf.

Then out of the clear blue - Days of Quarantine. Stay home, all media options cautioned. And so, no one left and no one came on the bare platform stage.
© gillena cox 2020

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Wishing all A Happy Season of Easter
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Mosaic Monday
#75: Let's Go to the Beach!


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Prosery: Edward Thomas
Prompted to use the lines no one left and no one came on the bare platform, from the poem
Adlestrop in a flash fiction of no more than 144 words


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REVISIT
13 April 2018
13 April 2017
13 April 2015

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PANDEMIC UNDER PINK SUPERMOON
A pink moon, how did they know?
Her blushing at our world below.

Sans hugs and kisses sharing so much love ,
Caring in crisis wearing hand in glove.

Hers was just a fleeting glance so,
Wept not for the dying thousands though.

That would have put her in a panic,
Had she understood our plight of pandemic.
© gillena cox 2020


Blog hopping today with

Poets and Storytellers United
Weekly Scribblings #14: Let's use Pathetic Fallacy, shall we?

Monday WRites 240

QUADRILLE CLOSED
Sign on the door says 'Closed,'
Maybe, too early would have been better.

People need to wear face masks,
Is this a bar? Shouldn't they be open though?

The early bird catches the fattest worm, but
Doors in this pandemic have no worm quality.
© gillena cox 2020

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Hang in there, heed the cautions, be safe, be healthy. A blessed 'Holy Week' to those who observe.
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #240: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#74: Let's Go to the Beach!


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Quadrille #101:
What’s Neither Closed Nor Cancelled? Poetry.


AND

Ruby Tuesday Too



REVISIT
Apr 6th 2018
6 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2015


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