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THIS SIDE OF TUESDAY

See how she kiskadees

In conversation with him.

Why can't she just say I,

Like everyone else.

There she goes again,

See how she kiskadees:

Mother will make it dear,

Leave the ingredients here.

So she bakes them cookies,

Her little cricket team will be happy;

See how she kiskadees,

Mumbling praises to herself.

"Ms Baker," she whispers,

These chocolate chips,

Are surely the best, this side of Tuesday.

See how she kiskadees?

© gillena cox 2023

#Note: The kiskadee is a bird which sings out its name: kis ka dee, kis ka dee.

I am using kiskadeeing as a verb  to mean using one's name instead of saying  I. How this works.

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Acting like animals

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Quadrille: pass the pepper please 

HOT LIKE HELL

Someone picked peppers by peck. 

So i read a long time ago. 

That's quite a mouth full of peppers to speak. 

I wonder, 

Were there any scorpion peppers in that peck.

Here in Trinidad and Tobago, it is those brave, who would taste it. 

© gillena cox 2023

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Mosaic Monday #33

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 397
Hope You Had A Happy Month of May.

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (Capsicum chinense) is a chili pepper native to the village of Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili at that time, with heat of 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs).

[ info from the internet]

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HIDING IN THE HEAT

Best stay indoors with whirring fan;

Siestas at anytime take.

These sweat-soaked days dazzle the mind,

But butterflies still loop along.

Brillance of sunrays on glass

Best stay indoors with whirring fan.

Buses, houses, cars, shop windows;

Everywhere a sparkle of light;

Watermelons at the sellers;

Can lure us out into the street.

Best stay indoors, with whirring fan,

After you've made a purchase.

There are words a-whirling around

In the mind, with caution gather

A few at a time, to poem

 with. Best stay indoors, whirring fan.

 © gillena cox 2023

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Poetry Form: Quatern

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Paintings by artist Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937)

 Then One Day - a quadrille

Pressed petals distort the glamour

of courting years,

When words were fresh and unfurled with such ease,

The ghosting of love poems,

Matched his vanishing.

She wasted years, wasting away;

Until one sunny day,

Shielding her eyes from the sun,

She ventured out resolute.

Then One Day - a quadrille © gillena cox 2023

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Memories Echo Their Truths.

It seems so very long ago; guess because it really is. Faces of two small children and a husband and i, filled this space called a home.

Spilled toys out of place to adults, but just where they should be to kids. Paint brushes, pencils drawing papers on the dinner table. That's not where an adult should leave them. Well anyway it's not what adult husband and father in the house thought.

Seems things were always out of place, but really, they were all in place, in time, in a harmony juxtaposed with the way it was and should be.

Now a lot of space fills that space; and memories echo their truths. Time was back then; when family was scribbled in the mind of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son.

raindrops echo

the music of today -

what of tomorrow

© gillena cox 2023

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Haibun Monday 5-22-23: Memory

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Mosaic Monday #32

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 gillena cox photo

Ah! here we are again. Another OLN, another chance to hear voices live. I always prefer to read an oldie and today's  is from 2015. You can read it HERE 

Now Listen to my reading

Blog hopping today with

OpenLink 339 May Live edition Edition 

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[photo courtesy dVerse]

WHATS IN A NAME

I looked in the mirror

To see what i could see

I saw a beautiful lady 

She was staring right at me

I asked her name

She said her name was self

Self i thought to myself

What an odd name for a lady

© gillena cox 2023

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Quadrille: Mirror Mirror on the Wall

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sunset: a 2021 photo by gillena cox

MUNIFICENCE

 For nougth but day, the light doth shine;

 Stars move in easy pace, to spaces bound;

 Look not toward heaven, with sad divine;

 Within the mind, there dwells, honed report; 

Thy heart, cherubic as the light doth shine;

 In this, the transience of mortal blight 

Why searcheth far away, to places not of thine; 

Here now he dwells , while amongst as afar;

 A wasteful effort, an insult, the searching

 tine; 

The wild daisy thrives in heat and wind,

Generous charity, for the light doth shine.

Munificence: a Fold © gillena cox 2015

 [first posted HERE ]

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Open Link Night #338: Summer is Coming!;

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I always thought clouds were light like cotton candy although not as sweet.

The cumulus look like stolen wool pilfered from some sheep.

If you must plough a field of dasies in time for next spring blossoming,

You should check with a farmer's almanac so as not to be wasting time assuming.

Ah; when the broken heart of aesthetics

Choose to leave one saddened, step to it
© gillena cox 2023

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Poetics: Slipping into Surrealism with Erik Johansson;

images from Erik Johansson's website 

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[Centennial Tree," by Andres Montie from google]

There she stood, such a weird woman; on this day without a date, on a back street, dusky. Who would have thought she was a poet extraordinary. Hers was the task of spinning stories, like those silent industrious spiders. Making magical, diaphanous threads of homespun words.

In every leaf hidden a line; verbs doing something; changing from green to yellow and such like. Every branch, a rib of a larger skeleton holding meanings, only the careful reader could translate. Such a weird woman mumbling; arms outstreatched pointing at a tree.

© gillena cox 2023

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dVerse — Prosery — Charles Simic: Finding Our Pack;

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morning sky photo by gillena cox

TO SCULP MORNING

You left me taking away

Kisses sweet and long lasting

Thrust of your love gone astray

Banished to hours of longing

Gold clouds of sunset shape

An evening fit for a lover's plate

I supp on tears of ducting tape

Unable to fix this sad fate

A beautiful moon once acclaimed

Is lost to a hazy night's sky

Tonight again would've exclaimed

Were not his treacle words a lie

Ah, but dreams are locked out

For blissful sleep is more healing

Than wasteful time without a doubt

Doors against betrayal unyielding

Tomorrow's first bird song kiskadee

I can sing my name to

With poetic words I shall shape thee

Morning; joyful i will carve too

© gillena cox [written in 2022; edited for today's dVerse challenge, first posting today]

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NEST BUILDERS

Whistling together on the branch of a tree

Then sunset came around

Their song of you and i and we

Was hushed in tones of gold surround

Worn beaks that carried twigs and straw

Were want to silence in feathered breast

Oh sunset to us two, oh the awe

As if just to watch with no thought of rest

Tomorrow we continue in patterning sticks 

Tis hard works carrying to and fro

So that we can welcome  cute little chicks

We deceided we'd give it a go

The twigs crisscrossed like basket weave

We chirp well done until the little ones leave 

© gillena cox 2023

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Animal Architecture

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Out there in land of sleep,

Fantasy awaits some we keep;

Forgetting night's dream

I awake, with a blank mind,

For a day that's kind;

With  vast  world  before me, 

It's happening can't you see,

There above us, oh so high,

Clouds mapping sky.

© gillena cox 2023

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Quadrille #175-Mapping Out Our Poems  

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2016 Road Trip

2017 mapping sunlight

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