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 [image 2CELLOS - Wherever I Go  from google]

Starless Night Ponder

Night performs her haunting echoes

She is neither shy nor unwilling

Yet she is holding back her shine

There are no stars out tonight

Not even a Bethlehem guiding light

Who can fathom the depths of desire

When not even a blink from heaven 

Strays into the thought of face

 Looking upward hoping to hear of 

Stars watching lowly humans below

Why is life moaning under a weight

Of contours, of borders, of delineations?

Who will spill a jar of watercolour

Wet on wet without care of spaces

Only shapes misting on smudgy

Areas to suffice

© gillena cox 2023

                          BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Without Words

Challenge today: is to choose a piece of instrumental music (no songs,

 but I am happy for you to choose a piece of jazz or instrumental rock if you don’t

 like classical music) that speaks to you, and write a poem either about the piece,

 including information about its composer and content, 

or whatever it conjures in your head. 

If possible, add a link to the piece of music. 

Here is a selection of poems about music:

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REVISIT TO READ

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MUSIC OF A DREAM

Call the genius out

Listen to him spout

The questions already answered

The music already mastered

Life in a bottle he says

Is anticipation in a stream

Tapping to the music of a dream

Call the genius out

Listen to him spout

The grant of three wishes 

On a sunny April afternoon

© gillena cox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

To use two titles from a given list of Linda Perry's albums. 

I used in my poem 'Life in a Bottle' and 'Sunny April Afternoon'

Poetics: Let Music Speak

REVISIT
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Calypso Music by David Rudder

Monday WRites 182

[Ixoras from my garden, photo taken July this year]

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PAN NIGHT AND DAY: DIAMENTE
music
indigenous magnetic
inviting enticing enchanting
a twentieth century wonder
charming fascinating beguiling
cultural folksy
rhythm
PAN NIGHT AND DAY: DIAMENTE © gillena cox 2018

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Our host over at Mosaic Monday, talks today about a hundred year old piano, so I thought I would mosaic again our Twentieth century wonder Steelpan. Happy Monday and have a great week.
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You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). A Happy Monday to all
Welcome to Monday WRites #182, ❧✿❧ What's your mood like today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites.





Blog Hopping today with

Mosaic Monday #4 - The Legacy Continues

AND


Shadow Shot Sunday 2:Storm Clouds

AND


Macro Monday Too Signs of Autumn


ENJOY THE MUSIC


REVISIT
Pan at NALIS 2017
25 November 2016
25 November 2015

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Kerry over at the imaginary garden gave us this photo as our weekend prompt. Since i'm already in mood Christmas i wrote this tanka

giving all she got
she sweeps the nard with her locks
across his feet
just like the little Drummer Boy
giving of his music
© gillena cox 2017


Note
John 12:3 - nard a biblical reference
The Little Drummer Boy- a Christmas carol


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden

Camera FLASH!

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TIMELY MUSIC
these are morsels tasty, fed from your finger tips holy
mother - harmony of sky and earth; a crescendo of praise
rising, on notes of elation, the echo of sound melodious

these are aromas sweet, delicate as a lullaby hushing
to sleep, baby eyes in buntings warmed with the kisses
of humming quavers, in skies darkening for shadowy moons

these are the silvery linings rimming dawn's trimmings
as yet another tomorrow sneak peeps a day ahead to yesterday
singing all the songs; of lament, of cheers, and of hosannas
TIMELY MUSIC © gillena cox 2016

written for
PROMPT NIGHTS On Popular Demand – Such passion music can raise and quell [3]

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MAKING MYTHS [1]
sparks electrified, bounced off his eyeball
he wore garments, shredded in the din of shadowy call
then rocked the moon, and non too soon
swirling planet-oids curled back in a swoon,
forming the rock of drama gamma beta sigh
there, Prometheus ate from the fire of desire; my
how the warmth of Olympus fell, short
by wintry blizzards wort;
stirring through the loins of satyrs
birthing music, where ever, felled stadiums scatter,
augmenting phi
to highest high;
then enters, curtail call,
and all -
is Silence!!!
MAKING MYTHS [1] © gillena cox 2016


Written for the prompt
Words Count With Mama Zen

The Challenge - "Shock me . . . make me feel better! Or, worse. Or, whatever. Just shock me . . . in 77 words or less"

AND

linking to Prompt Nights - On Popular Demand
– When Poetry Meets Myth [2]

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image courtesy Poets United

SOCA LAND is written for the prompt today at
Midweek Motif ~ Food


...
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare [excerpt]
ACT I SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO's palace.

Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending
DUKE ORSINO
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die...

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[Exit all - Enter : A New Day]
SCENE II SOCA LAND aka T&T

Soca, is my name
No one can call me tame

I feed on the hips of the young
Not so young, and think young

Carnival is my meal
Sumptuous hearty yield

I know how to make dem whine
Without grapes, i make dem whine

[Exit A New Day: Enter Bacchanalia]
SCENE III: The Road Monday and Tuesday

Party all day all night
Feathers and plumes, plumed feathers
days of Carnival --
fun in the sun, hot hot dust
in yuh face, but who? who cares

[Exit Bacchanalia: Enter incense and ashes]
SCENE IV: Sobriety

Ash Wednesday comes
Pigeon peas pelau left overs
from Tuesday?
the family meal is served
with ashes on the fore head

food for thought -
on the high voltage wires
piece of a costume
SOCA LAND © gillena cox 2016



Process Note
Soca - genre of songs born in Trinidad and Tobago, a mix of Soul and Calypso; sung and also played by Steelbands
T&T -Trinidad and Tobago
dem - them
yuh - your
pelau - a rice and pigeon peas cook up can be done with or without meat
ashes - on the Wednesday, starting the Lenten season for Catholics, ashes is applied to the forehead of the congregation, by the priest, or appointed ministers; at Holy Mass.