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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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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*rhyme, a b a c a d a b a, 
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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

Monday, May 13, 2024

1174

image from Bing

 Quadrille - Place

Is there a place called Heaven

High up and far beyond

Where joy and peace live happily

After a hard day's toil below 


Or is there a thing like the poet's hope

In a place yet to be found

Without out windows or doors.

Quadrille - Place © gillena cox 2024


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Thursday, May 9, 2024

1173

Black Woman with Peonies painted by Frédéric Bazille; courtesy dVerse poetry pub
Flowers For Mother
Everyone's buying flowers for mother,
It's her day so why not,
She cherishes them one and another,
It's the gift that counts
Such blessings, buying flowers for mother,
Petal by petal she admires them all,
There's never enough beauty to court her,
She deserves so much more;
This one, that one, and this other,
Peonies are bright and bold,
The world over is, buying flowers for mother.
Flowers For Mother: a Fold poem© gillena cox 2024