Monday, August 17, 2026

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[ Choy Moo Kheong, “Echo Through The Canyon” (2024). Courtesy dVerse Poets Pub Acrylic on Canvas, 152.4 × 101.6 cm]
How they did stare eyes peeled to the evening sky, an eclipse is what they wanted to see. Too bad for them, there was no eclipse, on this occasion.

Molten light sparkles like stars in the night and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows into time, that serpentine meander of fantasy and realism.

Yet they stayed, sitting on blankets, wrapped in shawls, eyes wearing fantastic googles, approprate sheilds.
© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With
Using a line from “King of the River”  
to use in a prose piece
and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows


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18 comments:

  1. HelenAugust 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM

    A 'serpentine meander of fantasy and realism'. ~~~ how incredibly lovely. What a joy to read your poem.

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    1. Gillena CoxAugust 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM

      Thank you for your appreciation, Helen

      Much love

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  2. Dwight L. RothAugust 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM

    I love it, Gillena. They did get a good thrill out of this eclipse!

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  3. Gillena CoxAugust 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM

    Happy you dropped by Dwight

    Much love

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  4. DoraAugust 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM

    Your narrative, written with poetic finesse, was such a pleasure to read, Gillena! We didn't get much of a show here either but an eclipse, just the thought of it, does spark a sort of "serpentine meander of fantasy and realism" nevertheless.

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  5. Gillena CoxAugust 18, 2026 at 1:18 AM

    Thank you for your appreciation, Dora

    Much love

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  6. Kim M. RussellAugust 18, 2026 at 5:59 AM

    I missed the eclipse too, Gillena, and feel their disappointment. I love your description of the night sky.

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  7. Gillena CoxAugust 18, 2026 at 7:53 AM

    Thank you for your appreciation, Kim

    Much love

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  8. ReelikaAugust 18, 2026 at 10:52 AM

    I am sad that I know what they felt because I was sitting on my balcony, waiting for what never came because of the clouds...

    But the night sky is also beautiful...

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  9. Gillena CoxAugust 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM

    Thank you for your appreciation, Reelika

    Much love

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  10. brudbergAugust 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM

    I saw it a bit, but not in such vividness as this...

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  11. kaykualaAugust 18, 2026 at 1:44 PM

    It would have been fun, Gillena if they got to see the eclipse!

    Hank

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  12. ms_liliAugust 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM

    Gillena, I love this: "time, that serpentine meander of fantasy and realism."

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  13. Gillena CoxAugust 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM

    Thank you for your appreciation, Lisa

    Much love

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  14. pvcann.comAugust 24, 2026 at 10:47 AM

    Of course down here there was nothing. But I enjoyed the story and the way you used the line.

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  15. Gillena CoxAugust 25, 2026 at 7:05 AM

    Thank you for your appreciation, Paul

    Much love

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