Saltfish accras were a breakfast treat
I'd sit on a kitchen stool to eat
Shuurr the sound of falling into oil
Hot enough to fry or boil
Food and fancy are still
The taste memories never at will
Let go of her cooking
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, July 28, 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
1295
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Fireworks
The night sky alive with the sound
Of booming colours lit,
Showers
Its impermanence though not found
Distinguishable fit
Flowers
It is more spectacle than awe,
Keeps the eyes peeled skyward,
Even
Curiosity of night law,
Colours drift and award
Heaven.
© gillena cox 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
1294
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Watermelon Daiquiris
Watermelon Daiquiris
Still awaiting?
Mr. Goodbar aint a coming!
He done that to many ah
Bit-O-Honey
You can call that his signature;
Charleston Chew and Sugar Babies,
Waiting at the bar,
Order: one more double, battender!
Three Musketeers enter;
Aint you a little bit young
To be sitting on the stool Sweetarts?
Mike & Ike shout across the room,
Let them be Watchamacallit!
They pretty enough to be 'ere
And they send over watermelon daiquiris,
For the Dots.
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, July 21, 2025
1293
[AI generated imagel
Would i have owned, the wisdom of maturity “I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones.”
Would i have owned, the wisdom of maturity “I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones.”
But no, my childish tantrums, prevented me from hearing the thunder and loving it. Seeing the lightning and being awed by the spontaneous brightness of a dull sky.
This is how betrayal, fools the unassumming, the naive, the young and unspoilt.
© gillena cox 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
1292
Banished
From the earth was fashioned,
From the likeness of God, the man;
And the breath of life,
Breathed into him.
From Adam's rib,
Was fashioned,
A helpmate called the woman;
And the breath of life,
Breathed into her.
The garden, their paradise given
There to live in,
To have of fruit with exception.
But the two they fell,
Into a trap laid well,
By the wiley wiley deceiver;
Clever clever he;
Approached the woman,
Knowing she, was held high
In esteem by her man;
With skillful debate
Was she baited, she ate;
Then she to the man to sate
Tasted of the fruit forbidden,
From their eyes, veiled
Innocence slipped;
Exposing to them at the hip,
Their loins in full nakedness,
Which they taught to cover
With leaves.
From the Lord God ever,
There is no hiding;
He knew of their deeds.
His compassion meted them,
Garments made of skins;
His wrath, banishment
With statuses new defined;
So then the woman,
By Adam, was named Eve;
Fitting her function given
By The Lord God; child bearer.
Banished then, and sent ,
Out from their garden home;
They went;
Wanderers for a new home.
Then Adam slept with his wife
Eve; child bearer.
© gillena cox (first posted to Wordchines.com 2009)
Thursday, June 26, 2025
1291
[AI generated image]
Next sunrise, there he was
Bending through the morning wafts
Of breezes scullying through
Fronds of banana and papaya
Plants stationed to his garden
Over seconds he would speak
We meet again like new clouds
Mapping an unburdened sky
No coincidence of mine more like
A universe hurl of broken planets
Then suddenly like a mountain sweet
As petrichor after the rain
He says in the most tender way
Let's be friends
I felt like a rocket launched
© gillena cox 2025
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
1290
AI generated image
was in awe
She didn't understand what was standing before her
A holy fear welled up inside her
Look at his size
Look at his socks
Look at his horns
No no no
He is not to be trusted
Not a feather on his body only fur
He is not to be trusted
Here she was feeling broken
Here was chicken all alone
Having been left behind
By those who should have cared
Here was chicken unarmed
In the face of a giant
Not a rifle
Not a stick
Not a dagger
Chicken was left to her inner source
Her faith
Her hope
Her tears
She quickly realized
She had to survive in the face of this giant
She honed into her inner source
And there she found ways
And survive she did
© gillena cox 2025
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