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an image created for me at Bing AI; i took the image to picsart, added 2 stickers and text

This is what i hope to read at the live meeting on Saturday 13th April LISTEN
 

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Unfailing Mercy

Every flower as it unfurls, 

Is a sign of, 

God's love for us as it unfolds,

With each new day; 

Every bow arranged in colour 

After the rain 

Spanning the sky from cloud to cloud 

Adds a promise 

Of God's mercy unfailing, and

Redeeming grace. 

Unfailing Mercy   © gillena cox 2008 

first posted at Wordchimes

 a minute poem   (8484/8484/84)

Read also Ps. 103

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free clip art from google

 The automatic doors open,

You are swallowed like Jonah

In the belly of the whale

Only here, you get to pick the meat

Off the teeth in the jaws,

Grocery shopping in a cool space;

You shop according to colour,

Or you shop according to taste,

The cashier ask you to tap or insert;

Paper receipts shuffle out of the device,

The automatic doors open,

You are outside in the glaring sunlight,

With a plastic grocery bag,

Having left the ground floor of the building.

.© gillena cox 2024

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Buildings

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Blossom Speak

This year i see the yellow patches on the mountains. I spot the pink infloresence around the Queens Park Savannah and i exclaim as i always do. 

We are in Holy Week the week leading up to Easter,  when i think,  every said poui tree on the island would  exclaim here i am in blossom speak.

In your clime you talk about cherry blossoms at the same time here in my clime i speak of poui

from the car window -

craning my neck to view

pink poui blossoms

© gillena cox 2024

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[one of my watercolours edited in picsart]

Overlapp

And when cometh the dawn, when she in

Her shadowy aspect of night to day, dare

To sketch such hues and tints, no match wherein

The artist's brush, should either crave or bear;

Who honestly should be jealous of this spin

Dabbling at hours of mystery there.

Perhaps this birth of spurious time is hatched

Only in the illusion of colours overlapped

© gillena cox 2024

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[René Magritte, Golconda (1953), oil on canvas; image courtesy deVerse poetry Pub]

 Rain On A Clear Day

On a clear cool day,

Why this needless nuisance of rain,

Past rooftops, routing a straigth path

Down from free fleecing azure.

Who cares? cause the windows are shut;

Maybe every engaging human,

Has had wholly enough,

Of outside influences.

So they therefore shut in

All casual coincidences of life

Leaving legacies of strife to 

Flowers free on the meadows

© gillena cox 2024

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Everything We See

Challenge: to be inspired write about tone of the paintings by  René Magritte, 

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The Trees Wore Scarves

My friend, one of the Adult Literacy Tutors; invites me to an afternoon in the Botanical Gardens to witness some of her online students read in person. So i go along, and i have a heart-warming time; meeting new people old and young, from all over the islands; sharing snacks and listening to splendid readings.

ALTA Online is an interactive, web-based programme of literacy instruction built around Caribbean life skills content and designed for independent use by persons aged 9 and over.

There were also options for authors to read as well: A source of inspiration and encouragement for students in the programme.

scarfed trees -

applause rise and

gusts of wind

© gillena cox 2024

Quadrille Sharp

The trees looked sharp

 In their brightly wrapped scarves;

And the dry leaves crackled underfoot.

After the noon sun on Saturday,

There was left much to say.

From far and wide they gathered,

This day they will have their say,

And say they did.

© gillena cox 2024

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