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 Earth We 

Technology rewards us with conversations and closeness. We share like and subscribe. We zoom, link up and link in. 

little square boxes

of people chatting online -

a live meeting

But what about our natural environment. The destruction is overwhelming. Building crumble like the tossed paper balls of am irate writer.  Machine guns and tankers deface the landscape. Where are the trees? The earth cries as blood is spilt.

TV screen shots -

the anguish of a mother

as her child goes limp

The fishes in the sea;  who cares about them as trash finds its way from rivers and streams to its depths annoying sea animal and plant life. Fishes must be crying too.

feet along the sand

plastic bottle clean up -

here's a garbage bag

© gillena cox 2024

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 Never Ending

A circle has no ending

It just goes around and around

Such is this mystery mesmerizing

An echo without sound

It just goes around and around

An infinite measure of sky

An echo without sound

And through it time flies by

An infinite measure of sky

Such is this mystery mesmerizing

And through it time flies by

A circle has no ending

Never Ending - a pantoum © gillena cox 2024

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 Tell Me

What would i do without you bird song?

You; clock of the dawn so well sung

Where would i have been this morning?

Had i not opened a window to let God's breath gently filter in

It is the stuff of mundane things;

Like the eyelids in blinking,

That makes for a wondrous chink  

Understanding of energy don't you think?

© gillena cox 2024

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A poem of address is a poetic form that allows the poet to “speak” to a subject.

 Most of the time the subject doesn’t talk back because it’s a person who isn’t with the poet, 

or because the person is no longer living, 

or because the subject can’t talk back because it is an animal, 

a place, or a thing so this type of poem is usually in the form of a monologue.

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Still Life with Fruit, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Medium: oil on canvas FROM Bing.com

Let Down Your Hair

Friday's proposal

to the day around the corner;

Let's relax, let our hair down,

Drink a toast,

The week has come to an end.

Saturday is waiting

In the shadows,

With her empty basket,

To market to market,

The mangoes and pineapples

We'll buy.

© gillena cox 2024

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

 READ IT AT THE BLOG HERE

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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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