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Gillena Cox, TT
 

 

 

 

 

Gillena Cox, TT

 

Beloved*

A Ten Waka Series

 

In my humanness;
Closed, coy and secured in me,
There I chose to dwell;
Where no hurt would pounce at,
My wounded, warm, loving heart.

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A butterfly’s wings;
Softly, silently open;
Your eyelids flutter,
I pick up every nuance;
Tenderly, storing each.

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It was portended,
Our being together,
A too short sojourn

Like the blossoms of *poui
Before a heavy rainfall.

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A lifetime promise,
There before all and sundry
Made to each other

As if wagging tongues ever
Stopped the inevitable.

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Like *ti marie,
My heart, held tightly closed,
Responding to you

Delicately, affirming
A healing that was to be

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I feel that we can
Decline whatever boundaries,
And ever know love

Predictable as sunrise,
Rhythmic as the rooster’s crow.

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I feel your soft gaze,
Without looking, yet seeing;
Your mind’s eye on me

Watchful, protective, lovingly;
Only a fool would crave more

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When first I saw you
Covered in splendid white light
Like angels are

You flooded my future with
A tremendous worth of knell

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Looking back without,
The longing of fools in love,
I taste, I see, love

In the sway of a blossom.

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Today’s happiness;
That quiet kind of ripple,
Stems from within me;
knowing, sensing your presence,
As if you left me wired.

 

BELOVED first shared in 2007 at Poemhunter

*Blooms from Poui a flowering Tree
*Ti Marie
also called Sensitive Plant; genus mimosa

 

 

Free Verse

 

Closed Windows

 

August rains,
And the night lays,
Within its august silence;
But for the sound on the rooftop;
A gust of wind,
Blows the rain indoors,
Without the slightest bit of angst,
I close the windows;
Bowing to the weather's august
Decree.

 

 

 

 

 

Read Additional Writing by Gillena Cox

 

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