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.
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
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
Saltfish accras were a breakfast treat
I'd sit on a kitchen stool to eat
Shuurr the sound of falling into oil
Hot enough to fry or boil
Food and fancy are still
The taste memories never at will
Let go of her cooking
© gillena cox 2025
This Apple
Honestly, if i eat this apple,
My love will appear right here,
In front of me;
Like syrup of maple,
Our kisses can span the rigors of time,
Like clouds under azure sky
Like ripples over ocean skin
Live Anthony and Cleopatra
Honestly! Honestly!
© gillena cox 2025
Tangle - Quadrille
Untangle this,
If you should miss
The opportunity, to
See groups of two
Colours, their strands
Relating where you stand,
Then the better to see
You, my dear can be
Drinking soup from a bowl,
Red as your dear soul,
Aflamed with filial love.
© gillena cox 2025
Who Alters
Who alters the skies
To form sleep time
To form wake time
The Great God of it all
Who alters that rain
Should cool too hot sunny days
Only the Great God of all
I've hear of him
Seen his power
Seen his wonders.
© gillena cox 2025
A Heartfelt Prayer
Engrave your whistles morning birds,
So every clock is useless,
And let me awake to your hirds,
For dawn is always more or less,
That invitation to all the words,
Spoken from the a sunless,
Sky waiting for when moon,
Vanishes behind cloud curds.
© gillena cox 2025
Quadrille Indigo
The Western Main Road is abuzz,
Onlookers dance to soca music,
The children in costume frolic
Under azure sky, where layered
Cumulus, puff up like cotton candy
In the afternoon sky;
Here comes a masquerader
His indigo motifs resonate his
Dancing in blue sneakers.
© gillena cox 2025
Birthday Party Quadrille
Its all happening online
Its all going to be sooo fine
Is promised - music and a good time
Come, let us lime
There'll be drinks and tidbits
Ah but no chairs on which to sit
Tomorrow i'll be five&seventy
Come to my amazing birthday party
© gillena cox 2025
NOTE: Birthday Party Link Opens Tomorrow
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BANG Quadrille
Christmas bells chime for me
Golden on my Christmas tree
With a ho ho ho and he he he
A holiday season oh so merry
Santa will drop by with a bang
Who will set the corn a-popping
Making loud sounds in the kitchen
© gillena cox 2024
But When
The dawn sky in chameleon mood,
Glints silver- grey, pale orange, or pink,
Sometimes, the moon smiles at me
Through a cloudless blanket.
And happiness floods my being,
Coffee becomes the cherry on top.
But when;
My granddaughter comes to my house,
Joy follows.
© gillena cox 2024
Vampire quadrille
insatiable to warmth and life,
monsters of night bringing strife,
for their cold rapport no sunlight,
only discord to warrant fright,
a click of fangs,
to soothe their pangs,
these bloodthirsty beings of dark,
even the ravens will cry out, hark!
beware the night!
© gillena cox 2024
Quadrille - Spin
Come now children sit thee in a circle
I'll spin a yarn, yes i'll tell a tale
No one will leave until i say crick crack
And the story ends.
Tales of dounes and silk cotton trees
And spiders spinning their very finest web
© gillena cox 2024
Swing low
Oh morning shadow
Still on early bend of dawn.
In nearby forest maybe little fawn
Might rise from bended
Sleep now ended
Some trees are wide awake
For daybreak's sake
Now birds will twitter
And a child in her knicker
Will yawn
© gillena cox 2024
Quadrille Summersault
The circus is coming
She will be going
What better event to enjoy
Now school vacation is here
Tickets already bought
Expectations riding high
Therre'll be lions and tigers
And rings of fire
The clowns will certainly
Do their summersaults
The circus is coming
One Light
There is just one light
in morning's sky, silent
With clouds the colour of charcoal,
And a breeze cooling as melon;
Find me a space here,
tucked into the silence,
I will stay a little longer;
Waiting for at least,
One bird to sing.
© gillena cox 2024
Dance of Unicorns and Dragons: a quadrille
To desire or not;
That is the conundrum
Of tomorrow's figment,oft
Stored there in fantasy.
For flights of unicorns and dragons,
know no woes,
Strangled once in labels
Of madness, few dare to expose.
Still few escape to survive
Reality in another realm.
Dances of Unicorns and Dragons © gillenacox2024
Quadrille Dark
Wake up, get up, nudges my muse
I will when the dark recedes,
When birdsong clears morning sky
Even though the waning gibbous moon,
still shines
How is it to the rising east
This morning's cloudscape is so
Ominously dark?
Wake up get up!
Quadrille Dark © gillena cox 2024
