Thursday, September 22, 2016

288


[image from yahoo dot com]

FOLLOWING THE LEADER
Sancho this Sancho that
Who fights with windmills
Who does that

squark squark
a knight in shinning armour
scattering chickens

is he serious
is this any life for a grown man
thrusting spears

rusted sails threaten
they call him a crazy guy
behind his back

pah! on my trusty ass i
Sancho Panza follow him
FOLLOWING THE LEADER © gillena cox 2016


Sancho Panza quotes
[Sancho: Dying is such a waste of good health.

Sancho: They say one madman makes a hundred and love makes a thousand.
Aldonza: What does that mean?
Sancho: I'm not sure. ]


blog hopping today at
Sidekicks in the Spotlight
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
Rommy is prompting

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

287


[a pinterest image]

SPHERICAL IDEAS
Take thee half this day for sunshine,
Then be thee not overcast, as mirth steps forward,
For her envy of joy, is boundless.
SPHERICAL IDEAS © gillena cox 2016

Susan has prompted us to write a new poem for Midweek Motif on the theme Equinox, Equator


Where i am, there are only The Wet and The Dry Seasons, so the phenomenon of equinox, would mean more or less equal hours of sunlight and dark for us.

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Equinoxes
As the Earth moves around its orbit, it reaches two points during the year where the tilt of its axis causes it to be straight relative to the Sun. These days are known as equinoxes. During these equinoxes the rays of the Sun shine directly on the equator. This happens on approximately March 20th and September 22nd

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

286


[image from google dot com]

IDENTITY
Inner feelings come to the fore
Destiny allows curve in the road
Eager to solve new mysteries to wit
Nose to fragrant roses, tears of thorns
Truth is the path called to walk
Introspection leads to prayerful faith
Toed to kindness gift of mercy
Yeah!! for motherhood joyfully blessed
IDENTITY © gillena cox 2016

Revisit
You open the window to grackle songs
The smooth gaze of velvet stings

You shut the cords of angels eyes...
OPEN AND SHUT SURGES


I sound my name, sound my name, sound my name
Again and again
But who cares for my worthless repeat...
WHAT'S IN A NAME


She wasn't about to let this moment pass, no way not this diva. See, she was a witch. She had the power, she had the panache...
DIVA WITCH


Written for Sanaa's prompt That which we seek; deep within will find – “IDENTITY” [9]


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Monday, September 19, 2016

Monday WRites 75


[image from google dot com]

SEPTEMBER MUSINGS
Through bars of engine roars, a tiny chirp;
The early breath of day, slowly haled within usurp;
Even more than a physical hunger have we,
Poets to sate the inner gnawings become thee;
Silent watchful ones in searching introspection,
Like flowers innately beautiful from creation;
A song sings of the dawn, to a sleep muted cloud;
Resonating in spurts of motor vehicles loud;
Autumn winds of the warm Atlantic storm,
As the season deepens becomes the norm;
The turbulent swing of terrorism too, remember;
As the flames of candle light outlive the ember;
Healing willed in life cycles, the loss and the pain;
Respect for life in peace to gain
Morning dew crafts a jewel on the leaf of life,
Promised to an end of strife;
Tease for an appetite of life anew;
But din of callous disrespects eschew,
A kind of man, a species he,
Determined not to live in harmony;
For to love, is to yield power unto another;
From a field vast and wide an in coming zephyr,
Tosses and tumbles from a soundless bundle,
Of experiences drafted like a Milky Way trundle,
Willed to the spirit of motion without rhythm;
Life without love, without yielding, without a lesser;
Without colour, without a poem, without a flower;
Motion, movement, sway, wind, debris
A musical score; engine roar and chirpy chirpy.
SEPTEMBER MUSINGS © gillena cox 2016



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).
Welcome to Monday WRites #75, ❧✿❧ What's your mood like today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites ❧✿❧ Today i'm sharing an old poem This is a 2009 write. Those days i was not writing in response to prompts. I was at that time, just sitting down to write as my muse dictated. September Musings was first shared at PoemHunter dot com



verses




Blog hopping at the
Tuesday Platform
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Sunday, September 18, 2016

284


[image from yahoo dot com]

HALF N HALF
One of the old photos, fixed to the wood,
In my living room, it's stare is good,
Its aura is benign, it speaks of love,
I just smile and nod, cause i'll have none of
Its quiet verbose boast, in telling,
There is too much abstracting,
In its sublime stating,
I prefer what i've read of love;
Patient, kind, and responsible, that's love;
See why i smile,
And don't reply,
If he is my better half
Pity me! left, with the worst half
HALF N HALF © gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping today at
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
in response to Outlawyer's prompt
Following a Thread - Weekend MIni Challenge

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

283


[image - cloud queen, from google dot com]

OF LADY DEATH - HER SONNET
She is, who knows the notes of feelings,
The crescendo of rising into an ether,
That wondrous lilthing defrocking,
Soaring into chorus of Allelulias above

She is, who knows the scent of joyous,
Colour of nebulos, and taste of arise
That flight sensous, sonorous magical
Redirecting into curtesy of applause

She is who knows the mystery of victory
The emblems of infinity in counted curves
That first step into belonging, becoming
Vanishing into distance of textured clouds

Lady death a visionary, a shadow of thoughts
To a book already written in a scribe's hand.
OF LADY DEATH - HER SONNET © gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping at
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
Written for Susie's prompt Bits Of Inspiration ~ If Death Were A Woman

Susie shared with us this excerpt from
If Death Were A Woman by Ellen Kort
I'd want her to come for me
smelling of cinnamon  wearing
bright cotton purple maybe  hot
pink a red bandana in her hair
She'd bring good coffee papaya juice
bouquet of sea grass  saltine crackers
and a lottery ticket  We'd dip
our fingers into moist pouches
of lady's slippers crouch down to see
how cabbages feel when wind bumps
against them in the garden


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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

282


[Chivalry - image from google dot com]

PERCHANCE TO BE SWAYED
The quill dips, into chocolate covered wordiness,
Lightly, tracing breath on soft furls of mist,
And a kiss sprouts to bloom in morning sunshine

How did this spell mutter itself into daisy petals
Plucked, incensing he loves me, or not
A drizzle of inexorable sighs, lubricates awareness,
Where trust, appreciates the worth of weaving love
Into tantrums of giving wrapped in ribbons silver

A pendant adorns the sky by night, dangling stars,
Myriads of sparkling spectrums, wishing genuflections,
Knees bent, knights to princesses swooning hoops.
PERCHANCE TO BE SWAYED © gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping today at
in response toMidweek Motif ~ Appreciation

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