Six more cinquains & two poems - Joy Carter Wilson

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Cinquain #7

BASTET
A feline cat
Purred in ancient Egypt
Symbolizing fertility
and joy

Cinquain #8

Purple
Flowers hanging
From jacaranda trees
Soak up smoke from fragrant quail grills
Roasting

Cinquain #9

Keas
Mountain parrots
Natives of New Zealand
Endangered species three thousand
Talk less

Cinquain #10

Two men
Sit on benches
Playing dominoes with
Apple-cured 'bacco water pipes
Puffing

Cinquain #11

Billies
Angora goats
Hanging out to dry
Smells like decline in business not
Mohair

Cinquain #12

Tulips
Quilting its bulbs
Across Holland like a
Living patchwork carpeting art
For miles

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TRIPPIN' IN COLOUR

Take a trip to see Africa's
fiery red sky
The Mediterranean Sea
in blue
Morocco's Marrakech
between red and pink
Ireland's landscapes
in green
Holland's
rainbow of tulips
On a black and white
Zebra

A DRESS CODE SOMEWHERE IN MOROCCO

Wind's intoxicating power
Blowing a spirit of mystery
Through the town
Turning locals into
Ghostlike figures
Men wrapped in striped burnooses
Women in their haiks
This age-old costume
Loomed of uncut threads
Folded several times
Into a distinctive sophistication

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Joy Carter Wilson for the Intercultural Platform.

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