Thursday, June 25, 2026

1421

Can a poem stand on one leg
Sure it can if it were a heron
With tall words whose meaning
Spanned cultures and societies
When worded like butter spread
On bread slices for a yummy breakfast

When the honey sweet from the bee
Adds willingness to a teaspoon of medicine
Then the tranformation of images
To new ideas poems readers consciousness
Building castles no knight need to guard

The poet magically pulls the rabbit
Out from his hat with abra ca dabra
Words formed from syllables of dreams
No red wagons need have wheels
It's a poem wrought from a dream

And love can be courted yet not counted
For words are infinite to a poet's muse
The span of a butterfly's wing
The depth of a whale's dive
All of these measures a poem records

© gillena cox 2026



Tuesday, June 23, 2026

1420

[images in this collage; courtesy dVerse Poets pub]

 Celebration: the bloom of fireworks sounding night sky,

Statements: louder that birds whistling-in the day,

And yet: a purple weed is bowing low,

In solemnity: of a life spanned that once was aglow,

You must have had: a yellow center imaging the sun,

That was when: life was full as pregnant moon,

Oh wait: are those sparks to light the dark,

Really: can the night ever lose her charcoal,

When: can the question of blooming be parallel to soul,

Maybe: when futures meet again

Revisiting the past: in prophecy of tomorrows.

© gillena cox 2026






Monday, June 22, 2026

1419

A two season clime, we look toward Rainy Season and Dry Season. And now-a-days, folks will tell you these seasons are less clearly defined, since climate change is now the norm.

Still, here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 solstices are defined by the sun's maximum tilt, marking the longest and shortest days of the year. Because the islands are close to the equator, daylight differences  are less extreme than in higher latitudes. The longest day of the year yields about 1 hour and 15 minutes more daylight than the shortest day.

And too, here, solstice is more so a nuance, and something, realized by those of scientific or meteological minds

coolness of morning -

through the opened window

bird songs and whistles

© gillena cox 2026


NOTE: I googled for info on the solstices as it would apply to Trinidad and Tobago




Tuesday, June 16, 2026

1418

 Blue Blue God Loves You

Sky is a wild party wooing grace

Look to prayers jetting into universal space

Responses chirp in morning twitters

Newness is a carnival of emotions


Maybe just maybe an astronaut

Is returning to our planet blue

Where what is old and what is new

Parallel the highways they traverse

© gillena cox 2026



Monday, June 15, 2026

1417

[image composed at Picsart]
Green Face Man
Succesfully as a belt for whooping,
Was 'de green face man' 
Parent-wielding myth,
All about the town at night,
Was he a supposedly frightful sight,
A calypsonian sang:
"De greenface man is all about
De devil in de town so hush you mouth."
© gillena cox 2026

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Thursday, June 11, 2026

1416

 Mountain range view from St James,🇹🇹 

Who dares crop the mountain,

Not me maybe you not i,

Bulky bulge enormous insane,

Clouds can sit in passing by,

Giants jealous of passing rain,

Shelter with umbrellas and sigh,

If you raise your mind to gain, 

Out of respect to the higher guy, 

Buzzards pass watch  you strange,

Crazies! on the mountain range.

Hoping they will bring about change

© gillena cox 2026



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Legs Eleven 

  Writing in the form:
2. The Eleventh Power by Christina Jussaume,
11 line poem
1 stanza
11 syllables per line
rhyme scheme of abababccddd or ababababccc,
an uplifting theme




Tuesday, June 9, 2026

1415

 When the morning opens and

The moon shies herself in fadng moods

When the sky takes back her box of crayons

And roostings wings flutter

Then beaks wide open sing songs of rebirth

That is when 

Earthworms wiggle beneath the surface

For they have no need of azure skies

Theirs is the gift of dirt and how to shovell it well

But the winged ones

Those are the event bringers i celebrate with

Birdsongs are prayers to the newness

The thanksgiving chants for

Waking to another day

 © gillena cox 2026



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Monday, June 8, 2026

1414

[image from Picsart]


 A terribly hot day. Even so we still deceided on a hike. Back packs secured, our sneakered feet started walking, up the hills so dry, so dense the underbrush, that where I pushed my way the giant hush was changed to soft explosion of hurrah we can do this.

And so we walked on through scrub and trees we could not name, until the forest darkness changed to light of sky. This is certainly the most successful hike ever

 © gillena cox 2026


Thursday, June 4, 2026

1413

[Kiskadee image from google]
kis kis kadeee
everyday at sunrise
these birds pass
on the baton to another
day of destined living
© gillena cox 2026


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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

1412

[image from Pinterest, edited at Picsart]
Something

Something old - those photos faded now, seem strange and somewhat awkard, faces disappearing within past times


Something new will perhaps be so, for mere moments; time and technology in a fierce battle of existing and continuing. 


Something borrowed - does anything really belong? is anything even really owned? Food, clothing, rites and rituals


Something blue like the sky, which scientists report is not coloured so but only appears thus. Not to be confusing. So don't overthink it

© gillena cox



Monday, June 1, 2026

1411

[photo from Pinterest]

 A most embrassing moment,

Why did he accept the challenge?

The band leader shouted,

Blow boy!

He put the horn to his lips and  with all his might.

He blew.

The horn is not his instrument.

What he grew up playing, is the pan

© gillena cox



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