Friday, August 12, 2016

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[Image 'Grande Anse Beach' from yahoo dot com]

A SNIPPET OF THREE CITIES
I
Leaving Scarborough, when you stopped by the women selling the benne balls, they smiled with you a welcoming smile, though you were leaving to get on the boat to go back home.

my initials carved
on the trunk of a tree -
roots of ancients


II
The sea grapes are green. They do well to hide among the leaves. Looking out at the beautiful crystal sea, a jet of sea spray follows the water skier. Puffy white clouds fashion the sky - Grand Anse beach St Georges.

flip flops prove
tedious senseless foot wear -
wet sand hot sand


III
There at Portobello Road, there where the hagglers meet to bargain, just for the tradition of buying and selling in this particular way, I share my smile to a click of the camera . London is foggy I expected a Caribbean kind of sunshine, after all, they told me it was summer

bubble gum ice cream -
a distant tinkling now
growing soft softer

A SNIPPET OF THREE CITIES © gillena cox 2016


Glossary
Benne balls - a sweet made from sesame seeds

[image from yahoo dot com]


Blog hopping today at
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
In response to Grapeling's prompt Travel: Get Listed for August

10 comments:

  1. These are all wonderful! Adore the prose - such great moments and thoughts captured.

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  2. Thanks for your appreciation Margaret

    much love...

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  3. I love how you used this challenge... like a little postcard coming home... and that view of summer in London I do understand... Stockholm is mostly similar... you should have seen people drinking beer on the quays of Tromso though... an Arctic summer can be splendid too...

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  4. Thanks for your appreciation Björn

    Much love...

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  5. This is wonderful! I love the changing imagery in the verses as you travel from one place to another. Blessings!

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Arnoldo

      Much love...

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  6. I love these --- especially the hint of a scar in "Scarborough," "women selling the benne balls," the flip-flops (even if discarded), "Portobello Road," "I share my smile to a click of the camera," "bubble gum ice cream," and "growing soft softer."

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Pachouli

      Much love...

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  7. Very sweet poem, Gillena. Thanks. k .

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