Thursday, October 9, 2025

1323

Memory is the happiness of being alone. ― Lois Lowry, Anastasia Krupnick
[image from google]

I Do Miss - Fold
The smell of freshly baked bread,
Still haunts me in a pleasant way,
And the comic books i read,
And swapped, those were fun,
I miss, smell of freshly baked bread
I think the most, from my growing up,
All these reveries carried in my head 
They keep me busy enough
I luv my aloneness but instead
Sometimes folks question my aloneness
Yes i do miss, smell of freshly baked bread
© gillena cox 2025


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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

1322


in Cocorite and WestMoorings. Trinidad

[image from google]



MAKING MYTHS [8] LET GO
Anxious. For night, 
Angry is its might
October demons capture Wind
Twisting her so
She pull away
And in so doing
Oops! roofs are ripped away

Let go you demons
Let go of Wind
That she may finds butterflies
To scallop and sway

Oh but jealous of
Tonight's supermoon
The October demons
Make faces at the sun
Torturing Wind to daytime havock
© gillena cox 2025




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Monday, October 6, 2025

1321

[image courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

Quadrille - Boo

 What a bootiful day,

The October moon must say,

She's larger than life,

And booting hidden stars of strife.


Since she's so big and bootiful,

There are books a plentiful,

To read as bedtime boosters,

So sleeptime will not be at all boorish.

© gillena cox 2025


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Thursday, October 2, 2025

1320

[AI generated using Bing]

Goddess - A Fold

I am goddess; if you agree,

How would your adoration then

Befit that i-creature in me?

Would you send supplication?

To this goddess, if you agree.

Heaven is her abode and destination.

Do you understand what you see?

Power and mercy are her instructions,

But only, if you realize the i in me,

Ponder this! smile but never smirk,

At this goddess she, if you agree.

© gillena cox 2025

 

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

1319

[this photo first posted HERE]

The ocean's song

In island crossings, we dare to listen

To the ripples of the vast ocean,

To the engine's roar across its surface,

To the rocks we engrave with our stares in passing.


Nothing from the distant mountains

Can tell us, not to journey bright;

But from the splash of a baby turtle,

Will the pattern of watery entertainment sing.


Our lifejackets securely donned,

We stare into the vastness of 

An ocean, a picture, a song of trust,

Ah! the wind will silently caress our cheek,

If we open windows to the view of her songs.


From jettied shore to rocky shore,

The songs of adventure in careful prattle,

Fill the pirogue of curious care,

From here we left by watery way,

Now we safely get there.

© gillena cox 2025


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Monday, September 29, 2025

1318

Response

A warm Caribbean morning progresses, with clear sky and pigeons in flock, out in the street. Here we have no Season of Autumn. Clouds are forming and patterning in creative shapes, left to the mind of onlookers to interpret. There will always be the storybook mind delighting with their imaginings. The rain drizzles and ceases. No one hears the breeze; still, a plumeria responds.

on the grey paved walk

a white flower has fallen -

its center yellow  

© gillena cox 2025

 

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

1317

[AI generated image]


 A Play of Lights - Rengay between Gillena Cox & David (ben Alexander) Bogomolny 

with my eyes i trace 

a pattern of stars at dawn -

praise for a new day/gc


tears blur one small boy’s efforts

to outline big sheriff’s badge/db


a yellow alert -

the way colours shape our

weather and warnings/gc


night rains streak the glass -

she runs the red turns too quick

on slick, empty road/db


office noises left behind

returning to home alone/gc


an owl keeps steady

while headlights veer and scatter 

through the storm-soaked dark/db


Collaboration Note: The Rengay is a short form created by Gary Gay

 'A Play of Lights' is a Rengay between Gillena Cox - St James, Trinidad & David (ben Alexander) Bogomolny  - Jerusalem, Israel.

Start date: September 15th 2025

End  date: September 17th 2025

Written: via email


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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

1316

[image - AI generated]

 The art of happiness - a quadtille


Feeling the need of some happiness?

Maybe because you are sad,

Or people in your space are sad.


Do something nice for someone!

Smile with someone!

Listen to Soca music!

Dance as you listen !


Say a prayer for world peace.

'Happiness matters',  speak it!

© gillena cox 2025



 

Monday, September 22, 2025

1315


 Posey

Yellow ixoras you stay open,

Once bloomed, through day

And through night;


Sleepless under Caribbean skies,

In your sweet umbrella forms,

Put you in a posey,

What would you represent?


Loveliness, continuity, happiness,

hopeful, joy, alluring

Ay yes, 

I know, you would be enduring. 

© gillena cox 2025


Thursday, September 18, 2025

1314

Lady Sings The Blues an old movie memory,
The music of sky from azure to cloudy 
Blue plumbagos when they pop open like umbrellas.

These are a few of my blue thoughts today

And then there are mountains blue,
From the roundabout to stare at to be amazed,
A drink the colour of smurfs,
To delight children, restaurant fun.

These are a few of my blue thoughts today
© gillena cox 2025

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

1313

[The Studio Boat (Le Bateau-atelier) by Claude Monet from google]

 model

lips cherry red 

lounges in sheer demur 

she longs to stir about yet still

she smiles


smiling

she maintains her  outward relaxed

sweet apperance for him

hair shining gold

his muse

© gillena cox 2025


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Monday, September 15, 2025

1312

 The yellow  fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, shed tears so much so, that leaves tremble under its weight, and loosen into the streets flooding areas


It is the lash of a season of hurricanes, even though the punishment is not meted out evenly


The thunder and lightnings sound their loud reports. They just cannot be about their business quietly, for it is the nature of thunder to sound out, even sometimes outside the season of Atlantic hurricanes

© gillena cox 2025

Saturday, September 13, 2025

1311



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Thursday, September 11, 2025

1310

[photo courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

This Moon Is Enough

After an early supper,

There was she, hung

Bright bold and round,

The night moon;

I thought she was a supermoon,

Oh but no,

She was just the Februrary moon,

Shinning for me,

To end my birthday,

The waitress said,

There is a new ice cream shop,

On the floor below,

I said to myself,

This moon is enough.

© gillena cox 2025

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

1309

Did he ever say it?

I love you i mean,

Of course he did!

Is the sky blue?

Well not always.


So he may have loved me, somewhat

Is delrium a mystery of male makeup?

Or maybe sometime,

Or even mistakenly,

Or he might have thought he did.


Isn't the "i do" factor

A happily ever after story line?

So then why does the griot

Stumble and mumble at

Where is he? 

Where is she?


Might "happily ever after stories"

Do have a time frame, or

Could it be, it contained the word

Together?

Which got lost in time.


You know,

Words and phrases

Can be quite fickle,

That way.

© gillena cox 2025

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Monday, September 8, 2025

1308

[image courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

 It was much more than sitting,

Much more than applauding,

So much more than an evening

Out to see them dancing.


So much more than bodies twisting,

More than engaging

In those fine stories unfolding, 

To the attention of a spellbound audience,

Much more.

© gillena cox 2025

Thursday, September 4, 2025

1307

August

you came in with

wide anticipation 

frenzied steelband recognization

farewell 

© gillena cox 2025

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

1306

Ismael Nery (circa 1931) - 'Eternidade' courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub

Eternidade: The Fold
Gotta focus, spot on,
Every corner ever shadow,
Is drawn, to the dream-tron,
Into the spectacle
That is eternity, spot on;
Where is the nuturing heart?
Will it recover the forlorn?
The disillusioned?
The desire to belong?
To something greater than self,
Just gotta focus, spot on.
© gillena cox 2025

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

1305

[AI generated image]

We Went To See Them Dance

 They have silenced us, 

With their craft of excellence,

These dancers,

Bending, stretching, cavorting.


They have silenced us,

With the years of discipline,

They have endured,

To get to tonight.


They have silenced us,

Yes, the audience is in hush,

Not even my cough,

Dares to sound out.


They have silenced us,

And we are still stilled,

When an applause blooms,

But not from us, the audience.


Then a tiny voice ask,

"Who's clapping?"

"I dont see anyone clapping"

"Sound effects", 

The other tiny voice whispers. 

© gillena cox 2025




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Monday, August 25, 2025

1304

AI generated image

 Rumpus Quadrille

What a rumpus, boys fighting on

the floor, 

I looked but i'd never seen them before,

Where did they come from? two naughty boys,

Disturbing the peace, upsetting our joys;

They rolled then rumpus-thumped

Out the door,

I swear! i'd never seen them before.

© gillena cox 2025




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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

1303

[image from google]

The wish for history and past thought

Steers him to the exposition

Wandering from room to room


Like a man in a museum

Eyes captivated by so much

Ancient issues, he muses

Why is this day so long 

© gillena cox 2025




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Monday, August 18, 2025

1302

[image from google]

 Although the future gathers in vine, bush, and tree: Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape; still, Aesop's fox cared not for tomorrow, but only for the destruction of his opponent's now


Imagine looking at a lush bunch of green grapes and calling them sour! Left to me i'd ask to sample one before purchasing, not relying on or accepting his lie.


Fruit and nut although delicious ingredients for a Christmas black cake, i relish the rum, ceiling in the flavours, adding a much cherished, umph! 

© gillena cox 2025

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Monday, August 11, 2025

1301

 Don't jibber jabber,

It's World Steelpan Day,

Send a greeting,

Beat a pan,

This musical instrument,

Is here to stay.  


Listen to some steelpan music

I know you will like it.  

Dance, dance, dance, it's good exercise;

It's World Steelpan Day,

Don't jibber jabber.

© gillena cox 2025


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Thursday, August 7, 2025

1300

[image: Margret Hofheinz-Döring, “Schulweg,” 1953; courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

walking in sync


two bestfriends

returning  from school


the shadows beside them

seem to melt away from

a high tiled wall

© gillena cox 2025


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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

1299

[photo first posted at my blog lunchbreak at 1179]

 Rain Forest Trek

Sneakers treck through the rain forest

Eyes a wandering through the tree tops

What's that sound we want to know

In the city we do not hear this


The marvel of the monkey ladder vine

From ground to the trees grows strong

Strong enough to become furniture


To listen to your guide is wise

For some of these plants can grab and hold you

Never wanting to let you go

But its okay to breath in the sweet

 Fragrance of the incense trees

© gillena cox 2025


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