Saturday, June 1, 2024

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[image from Bing]

Kiskadee - a magic 9 poem

Kis  kis  ka deee! kis  kis  ka deee!

This song is their name.

It is not just for me,

The kiskadee bird sings this song,

In the morning you see.

It is because birds open the day,

With bird song, whatever it maybe.

Because it is their aim,

Calling in the daylight for you and me.

 Kiskadee © gillena cox 2024


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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

1180

 Wed In Red - a magic 9 poem

She a bride wore red

She didn't conform to the day

Of white veil that led

To travails of aisle and crown

What a pity her friends all said

They are so beautiful together

But their vows were civil-ly read

She let them have their say

Yet she the bride wore red

Wed In Red © gillena cox 2024


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Monday, May 27, 2024

1179

 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


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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

1178

[image courtesydVerse poetry pub]
Music To My Ears - A Cento
In this magical village, 
I walk briskly in October’s chill, but the tune I hear is adagio, 
My footsteps morph from clomp to skip, 
As shadows lengthen outside; 
I imagine what could be accomplished in this world, 
It cast a long, untiring spell on me, 
By a power I still can’t comprehend, 
I put down the mirror 
Pretty in red, I climb into the folds of bed. 
 Music To My Ears - A Cento - gillena cox 2024

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: “A cento is a poem formed from lines of poems written by other poets.
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the cento is composed like a collage or quilt,
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Monday, May 20, 2024

1177

 Times Flies?

Time has no wings yet, we say time flies another May is upon us already the fifth month spans its days.


white butterflies how

they scallop across flowers

here in my garden 


 Today we celebrate them: Happy International Bee Day. Honey makers: queens, drones they all add to the sweetness of life


not only today 

a bee having breakfast in

the ixora bush


Its nearing the time of rains and floods. A tease of rain a few days ago. By May end,  the whole day rains will follow.


a mockingbird skips

across the wall deceiding

where to fly off to


Time Flies? © gillena cox 2024


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Thursday, May 16, 2024

1176

[free image from Bing]

 


stood at the cusp of morning

dainty rose on a thorn etched bush

light of day was still at dawning

ethereal the sky in cloudy scape

through a window view warming

dew still wet and ever present

ever the heart watchful adoring

oh but the birds they will not hush

such is their task of daylight opening

© gillena cox 2024
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

1175

[Norman Lewis. Girl with yellow hat, 1936; courtesy dVerse poetry pub]

 Left In A Jet

It was the time of happily ever,

After the changing of diapers,

The buying of toddler's toys,

Selecting of schoolbooks,


It was the time just after her surgery,

After the healing processed,

When the psyche still lingered in pain,

That's when! he ghosted her.


"Two beautiful children;" friends

shook their heads in lamentation,

Clouds absorbed him and his luggage,

For desertion was his forte.

 Left In A Jet © gillena cox 2024