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[Bing AI created this image for me]

This Chair

This chair stood among the clouds,

Surreal and empty, tired from wandering;

You would think it didn't belong,

But it certainly did;

For what are spaces for,

If not to delete a void.

Every footstep in life to pilgrimage

The emptiness, the aloofness;

A chair without a table, resting now,

A chair without a sitter;

One wonders how not why,

How did it get here among clouds

Cumulus in thought,

Puffy with intent,

Alone  and surreal.

Every footstep in life to pilgrimage

Perhaps the sitter fell off,

Like Jack fleeing a giant,

Grasping a beanstalk,

Or maybe there was no sitter;

Only a chair among clouds,

Just the way the dreamer crafted.

Every footstep in life to pilgrimage

This Chair © gillena cox 2024

 

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

dVerse Poetics — Pilgrimage, Wandering, and Walkabout

The challenge i rsponded to: 

4. Find or create an image and write an ekphrastic

 poem about pilgrimage, wandering, or walkabout to it. 

REVISIT TO READ

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[image created for me by Bing AI]

 On The Windowsill

All the banging so much noise,

What are we building of toil?

Is butter softer than the heart of love?

Can sugar sweeten already made honey?

When bees toil,

Is the buzz noisy?

A box of dreams sits on the windowsill

All this noise the banging never stops,

The blood of innocents cling to greed;

The soil and sea cry out do you hear,

Through all the banging?

Useless or wasteful still noise;

Drowning out real beauty real joy,

Loudest is the stressed-out heart,

The fake meanderings of toil.

A box of dreams sits on the windowsill

It is that time of beginnings,

The whistles and songs of birds

Sound out of transitioning,

A sky inky will streak of silver,

Then turn to pale azure,

Gilt with sunlight.

A box of dreams sits on the windowsill

 On The Windowsill - A Bop poem © gillena cox 2024

 

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

MTB: Boxing Clever to The Bop 

How to Write The Bop

and including this same 1 line repeat after each stanza:

‘I found a box and put a room inside’

OR ‘I found a box…[adding your own words to complete the line]

 

REVISIT TO READ

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