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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

   OpenLinkNight #392  

 

REVISIT TO READ

20230925
20170925
20150925

Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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

LISTEN

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 Poetics Tuesday: Happiness is…   

 

REVISIT TO READ

20220923
20160923
20210923

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 Peonies? Lily-of-the-Valley? Pick your posey!

 

REVISIT TO READ

20220922
20160922
........

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

  MTB: The Colour Motif and Amy Lowell’s Imagism,

 

REVISIT TO READ

20224918
20218918
20170918

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 

Poetics: Reflections, Reflecting

 

REVISIT TO READ

20224917
20218917
..........

1312

1311

Voiced for 13th September 2025 OLN [live edition]  If you did not attend you can listen now

 
 

 OR Revisit to read HERE

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 

  Open Link Night #391 (with Live edition) 

REVISIT TO READ

20230911
20150911

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 

 Don’t shoot the messenger; or Tolstoy’s birthday 

We are given quotes from Tolstoy and asked to, write a poem about a time or times your actions aligned with the idea you chose and a time your actions did not.

REVISIT TO READ

20210909

 20200909
20150908

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

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

 Quadrille #231: Making Much of Poems 

REVISIT TO READ

20220908

 20210908
20160908

1307

August

you came in with

wide anticipation 

frenzied steelband recognization

farewell 

© gillena cox 2025

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

   MTB: cinquains revisited  

REVISIT TO READ

20230904 

 20170904
20160904