Rhapsody in Red: It Follows the Theme of the Latest Quartet Featuring Emotions and Colours

By Ian Wilcox

Dear Readers,

If you have survived my diatribe to this point you deserve a tip.
I will give you a certainty.

Each of this Quartet of Books features various Guest writers.
Some have already published and some are yet to publish.
Make a note of their names!

In my personal opinion they are amongst the future leading writers of modern literature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: May 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984594839

Ian Wilcox

Ian Wilcox is a 50+ London born man of many thoughts Although I have been penning verse for over 40 years, it was just a hobby that passed some time. Following a Heart attack and Stroke that left me, among other things, registered visually Impaired I made poetry a reason to learn to adapt so that I could write again. I have a loving Partner and Daughter who are both from the Philippines and are the reason that I smile everyday Messages for Mj is my second Book project this year following the publication of Letters to Lodieta

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Rhapsody

in Red

IAN WILCOX

Copyright © 2020 by Ian Wilcox.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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Rev. date: 05/04/2020

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Contents

A compliment of sort

Culinary Caesar

Make magic

Finished article

The New Pandemic

I am yours

Eye and I

Our latest treats

What makes a moment?

The inner inspiration of creation

Bose Enduwe Adogah

Joy

Rule One

Head hurt

Flipper was forgotten

First Poem

Found a fortune

Walking in the wake of wonder

Walking in the wake of wonder

3 Eggs

An ocean full of Rye

Corona capers

Yay! I’ve finally finished!

I mag 1 Nation

Tipsy-turvy

Lurgy lingers languidly

I, it, and may it last a lifetime

From out of the fire an Acorn grows

Languid in the land of lamplight

Solidarity

Hmmmm

Murder Game

Cat’s Cradle

I am the greatest

An argument with an Ant

Eximious Character

ResiLient

Music moves a mood

The one that rises above

First Poem

Punctuation and dictation

In all the days of work and play

Mythical mysteries

Crimson Sunrise

The Petal

Caught in the moment

A penny for your thoughts

Sweet as Honey

Say the same

Answers to Life

The cord it stretched

Renegades in the shades

This week

Accumulation situation

The last love letter

Don’t belong where

What do you mean?

The want for more

Antelope in Accrington

Milkshake made

The cycle of recycle

As wake up juice will drink

Just Biz

Think what think

Humanity still walking

If was

A, R, S and R

The last thing

Let me see your eyes

I am the

Violins in the velvet void

Been, Bang and so sang

Whatever

ProLificity

Another flatulence of the Walnut

Tough time Tobias

The elasticity of eccentricity

Shades and shadows

Bamboozle

Have you seen the Fish?

In

A Book can last a lifetime

Do it again

Way back when

Little Grey Riding Hood

Dr Ink

Zombie like

Fish fingers in Custard

Hidden Secrets

CoƏסsT

Sentiments in reflection

The awkward advance

Anthem

I know for I hear

The Tapestry

A frolic at the Fun Factory

Walked

Zit

I still lived in past

Said Goodbye

A Glass of wonder

Pedantic pain

Lockdown

The clarity of cooperation

Making moments

Tender chases

Clotted cream

Most of all I dreamed of me

The legion of lovers

Ang Aking Mahal Na Pamilya

The same old tune

Each Foray

WTF

Freedom

Tragedy has befallen me

Click and flick

My signal’s had a seizure

Echelon the bygone

What is the real virus?

temp●rarily

Ever felt that need

A Moth

In The Mist

The Politicians pamper selves

The find

My other

Unsung Song of Love

I made

Statement

The revolving Door

Consternation situation

Surplus to requirements

Acquaintance, acceptance,

rejection, regret

Reaping rewards of relaxation

If I had a Day

The empty

Breath and bruises

Counting Crows for something to do

Rant or Ramble

I came close

Look into

My Filipino fantasy

A contribution

If I ever have

Thoughts don’t stop

Communication complexity

When and what

Antipathy

They want to take me away

The modern Horsemen

Sorry but Goodbye

Reaching outside the real

Diversity is history

Once got thumped

Not fazed by gaze

Inuit or In to it

The slim arrow

Squiggly to infinity

Red

A to E

Crimson Sky

I am not you

Shangri-La is not that far

Would be nothing more than this

Angry Mother Nature

I mag 1 Nation

Inclusion not intrusion

Pappa Oscar

Shadow Dancers Of Highway 162

Random thought

My Teaspoon

Honeysuckle in the Hedgerows

Crimson Tide

Eloquence in irrelevant

My Teachers

Made my Bed

X

Rigor more teas

Early morning munchies

Today I saw a Toadstool

So let’s dance

Chamomile for a while

Maudlin made Move On mad

Valentine will you be mine

Quagmire of the conscious conundrum

Repetitive its encore

Brain fart again

Play the Game

Sense rise again

If - where

My anger was my hindrance

When can walk

Never compete - Just don’t do

All the tears

Starlight

Fix

Natural Junkie

The living stain

The delivery

Al caer la noche,

On edge

Do yah

Some Kind of Wonderful

Let it fall

No more for now

The emptiness

Room for all

Snowflake

Let me see your eyes

Been, done and so begun

My eternal

Thought to myself

When from

Question asked or will this last?

I see but

Indecision my condition

The matrix of the make believe

Rich rewards

The Event

Made mud pie

The magical making of me

Aromas of a bygone age

Reader please

That illusion

Sell me

Today I cut my Toenails

Echoes of the

Shall I ‘see’ you soon?

Made a mark

Same journey

Mud pie

For sake of

I am not magic

Tired

Confusion is confusing

Ashes settle

The crystal Chrysanthemum Chandelier

Last hurrah

To Noe Bas

urto

My Brother from another Mother

You maybe so, so far away

Yet do listen to each word say

Be it in music or things wrote

A new verse or famous quote

You are not that Brother that others see

Yet are a Brother unto me

We are of a family

Always have been, will always be

You astound with thoughts profound

You amaze with what you do

Yet relate when you state

You are simply being you

Good that I even met you

Good that you now do what do

Art in work and in leisure

To just know you is a pleasure

A compliment of sort

Is plagiarism like narcissism

Or a compliment of sort

For you see that it could be

In someone words were caught

Is criticism a witticism

Expressed in a bad form

For a threat you are to ‘that perfect Star'

That's so unlike the norm

The tirade that someone made

Self defence for the unsure

Who can't in jest just express

An opinion they think pure

Hostility a reality

When on defence they be

Yet why I cry until I die

I am not you nor you are me

We deal with things and what they bring

Yet it is such a waste

When react before should act

Before the truth we taste

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Culinary Caesar

Made a mini marvel

I am a culinary Caesar

3 minutes in the microwave

I have a shop bought Pizza

Caesar dressing holds no qualms

When can get if stretch my arms

In the cupboard where it's sat

To go on salad like a hat

The greenery no mystery

In preparation do not lag

A twist and pull the normal rule

When comes in a bag

A tin no sin when begin

Just need to think to know

Presentation variation

How on plate to show

No end in sight and that is right

Frozen ready made

Fast to go if they don't know

My Stove redundant trade

Scrambled egg what the heck

Can now by off the shelf

The ideal meal has appeal

When cook and consumer self

Get bored with that and I have a plethora of sandwich options

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Make magic

Some tests are harder than some others

Some push but do reward

The ones who last the distance

Are those who I applaud

Growing's never easy

Nor should it ever be

For by seeing from both sides

You know reality

We make magic in the moonlight

Dreams as day does break

Success in the sunlight

Our trivial will not break

For we are one together

We together are so strong

We are so united

When feel that we belong

The lasting of impression

The memories are etched

Yet are merely lessons

As water poured when fetched

Magic lies in everything

If we but look

The day to day around

Music or just a Book

So embrace your own feelings

Enjoy the taking and the giving

Soak up the sense of what we do

The luxury of living

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Finished article

One day past in far off place

Lived someone stared into Space

‘Who am I?’ they asked them self

Into answer then did delve

Once upon a long ago

Something changed and change did show

Not the one that known before

Became something so much more

An apple fell from a tree

On firm ground began to see

What it was, was just a particle

Of what could be a finished article

Some bonds they broke as they spoke

Opening a whole new way

Not the style in that delivered

More the things they had to say

Some reformed at later date

Such is life and such is fate

For each door we choose to close

A different opens and possible grows

None will ever be complete

For that's too simple, that's too neat

Just progression not regression

As each age has leader session

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The New Pandemic

The disease we face has slowed its pace

Now a new one do we face

No surprise for those wise

Reintroduction of the early rises

For too long did belong

In a state of lethargy

Sleeping late a natural state

Early rises insanity

Yet now the cow of why and how

Normal business has been resumed

Work from Home okay if there can stay

For others work stations/ mood assumed

New pandemic sweeps the nation

A man made creation

Discipline took vacation

Now this situation

Sick calls they rise again

As some feel that early pain

But it's not even Ten!

Can I go back to Bed again?

Oh woe is me for this cannot be

I survived the big one true

Now you cruel and twisted fiend

Look at what expect I do

The new pandemic is on equal measure

When tries to deprive that I treasure

Doing what and when I want to

Back to hardship – little pleasure

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I am yours

I am yours as you lead me from the dark shadows

Remembering your kisses lingering on my lips

So sweet the taste of you like French wine and fine chocolates

Your warmth envelopes our desires the chemistry,

The divinity of sorts entangled within each caress

A tidal wave surging, rising that never crest

My heart fluttering a firefly emerges dancing

Trembling with anticipation undecided where to land

You take my hand, the crickets sing

Tonite there is no judgment call no right or

wrong as I surrender to our dance

Our song of OM

There is no shame as love is the greatest

freedom we have ever known..............

Margaret Renie Burgess

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Eye and I

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been

able to tell

the difference