HOT DRY HEAT
The flowers bloom,
Obvlious of the heat,
The hardy ones;
Like bougainvillea,
And ixora.
The sky is bright,
A blue sky for sure,
Cumulus; like bagged
Cotton candy at a fair,
The flowers bloom.
Some with thorns,
Some without,
Isn't life like that,
For those pretty ones?
The sky is bright.
You just have to look up;
What is it about azure,
The colour of wonder,
And of blooms,
Some with thorns.
Like barbed wire,
Keeping out,
And sometimes keeping in
Screams, even when
You just have to look up.
Those fearless birds,
Tired of chirping,
Sit and rest;
Some even preen on lines,
Like barbed wire
© gillena cox 2024
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Beautiful Bougainvillea flowers in your pictures. Your poem of warm spring time in Trinidad works very well.
ReplyDeleteActually it is hot hot Dry Season. We have onky two seasons. Dry Season and Rainy Season.
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I. Love. This. The staccato emotion from frail and pretty to dark and doomy, like barbed wire and screams, echoes how everyday life can be gorgeous and lush while at the same time erratic and tragic. Great job!
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I like the short lines and rhythm of this poem, Gillena, like tentative steps and gradual blossoming, and I love: ‘Some even preen on lines, / Like barbed wire’.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Kim M. Russel
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I love this, the joy of being close to the bloom and those birds... so different.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Björn
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a cascade of petals Gillena - loved the ease of these words falling down
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Laura
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Oh heat I know...although not dry, certainly not this year. I love the bougainvillea in bloom, it is glorious. I love the colours of your cascade poem flowing down a bit like the bougainvillea itself.
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A masterful cascade of petals, Gillena.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Dora
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This is wonderful, Gillena! Thank you for the lovely flowers on top.
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