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CHILDREN DRIFT

What do you mean everyone

How they will find

Their way back i said

Joseph led Chloe over to the fence

When they got close 

And snapped his fingers

Then they went to bed 

And slept for almost a day

CHILDREN DRIFT © gillena cox 2023

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MTB: Patchworking some Prose

Today's challenge goes like this:

Choose TWO books of prose

Pick ONE page from each

Extract SHORT LINES from each page*

ALTERNATE them to make a poem

Use italics and plain font to differentiate the text sources

Use one of the source lines or a combination as TITLE

I used lines form page 42 of Gone to drift by Diana McCaulay 

AND

  lines from page 112 of Children of The Spider by Imam Baksh

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 INHALE 

The morning air i chance to breathe

For such is destiny

A night now gone and sleep to ease

Oh breeze blown hastily

I've found today a gift so rare

Unwrapped is life anew

The slate of yesterday not bare

I add now words a few

What greater gift than just to be

To wonder or to sigh

The greatest part of being me

Is gratitude oh  my

In this my empty nested life

A bird song weed or cloud

Are much to be and without strife

And i can sing out loud

 INHALE  © gillena cox 2023

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Poetics: Hidden Gifts

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 QUESTIONS ON SUBTLE CHANGE

Who slurped the stars off the night sky?

And the rooster who crowed the three o'clock chant of dawn?

Who shifted the compass needle of rainy days and days of sun,

To thread instead a motif of haphazard wind and dust?

Tell me! who.

QUESTIONS ON SUBTLE CHANGE © gillena cox 2023

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Quadrille #169: A Star (Poem) is Born

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You've heard about the Monday Blues 

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well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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A GOOD INTENTION

I am no where near perfect,

So yes, i should resolve

To improve myself each year.

At the end of each day,

 Fold your clothes and put them away,

 No matter how tired you are.

A good resolution for this year  

A GOOD INTENTION © gillena cox 2023

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Poetics: Resolving to Resolve

Prompted with five random pieces of advice, to weave any one of them in a poem.

I chose  

[At the end of each day, fold your clothes and put them away, no matter how tired you are]

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NATURE'S SECRET IS LOVE

 I walk around in my garden, touching leaves, flower petals, the earth, the grass. I am alive and so are they. We share a common bond; a mystery of creation.

And so here we are; a part of something larger, something designed, something beautiful. I tell myself, i intend to be beautiful everyday of my life.

I breath in the air of early morning. I hold energizing my being. I exhale gratitude and praise for something higher, mightier than them and me exist; and it is good.

different colours bloom -

there's no heartbreak in this space

only beauty dwells

NATURE'S SECRET IS LOVE © gillena cox 2023

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Blue Monday & Ruby Tuesday Too: Desert Life

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You've heard about the Monday Blues 

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well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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Stars in the planetarium,

As they whirled overhead, 

Awesome.

Viewed in yester millenium,

What a dynamic spread,

For some.

Fishes in the aquarium,

How lovely they all said.

Buy some,

And also an anthurium

For the vase by the bed,

Saw some

© gillena cox 2023

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Meeting The Bar: Memento 

Prompted to: Write a poem following the poetry form, Memento.

Memento

Memento, created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of the two stanzas.

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REMEMBERING DEE

 Cinnamon and cloves i think of her

Chives and thyme also call her to mind

At Saturday market she was a seller

Cinnamon and cloves i think of her

Her ground cocoa beans never a failure

In a small hand mill she would grind

Cinnamon and cloves i think of her

Chives and thyme also call her to mind

REMEMBERING DEE © gillena cox 2023

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Grandmothers… 

Sarah asked us to writing about grandmothers. 

My Grandmother, my father's mother, we called her Dee 😊

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