Thursday, August 30, 2018

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KISKADEE © gillena cox 2018
Kis ka dee, kis ka dee, her bright yellow underbelly
strikes sunlight into the dullest morning.
She calls again kis ka dee, kis ka dee,
What is she saying, she is singing her name.

After cock a doodle doo
Clouds loose their grey hue
Brightening under an azure blue
Kis ka dee, kis ka dee she is singing her name.
KISKADEE © gillena cox 2018

Listen to the Kiskadee at Asa Wright Center in Trinidad



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30 August 2017
kiskadee 2017
30 August 2016

Monday, August 27, 2018

Monday WRites 169


In today's mosaic: My granddaughter - in Scarlet Ibis Costume last year; at nursery school. The birds are from a google search]

SCARLET IBIS AND COCRICO
Scarlet Ibis is dancing in the carnival parade,
She lives on the island of Trinidad.
Surely, little Cocrico, is dancing too,
On the island of Tobago.
In their costumes; homemade,
And they are both glad.
For when, costumes they take off; ringtone!
They can say to each other - Hello!
Over-the-seas; via cell phone.
SCARLET IBIS AND COCRICO © gillena cox 2016


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Good Monday folks. four days away from Independence day [31st August] i thought, why not present our National Birds today in mosaic and poem.
Scarlet Ibis and Cocrico are The National Birds of Trinidad and Tobago. Both birds are featured on the Coat of Arms of Trinidad and Tobago, and are protected by law.
The Scarlet Ibis occurs in Trinidad; it is brown when young, it's colour changes to red when it is mature. The Cocrico; not found in Trinidad, is the only game bird on the island of Tobago, is referred to as the Tobago Pheasant.


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humming bird 2017
27 August 2017
in sync 2017





Monday, August 20, 2018

Monday WRites 168



COTTON FLORALS
The moon was bright, yet dark the night.
Through the mud dried track, he hurried back.
To the kids and Miss Mildred, ah yes our man Fred.
Bouts of drinking and carousing;
That was his pleasure, how fickle his leisure.

She laughed shrill and high, head thrown back for fie.
Her perfume intoxicating, scent of wild crepe jasmine.
A smile, flashing a thousand stars alive.

He approached her heart racing, she advanced slowly teasing.
Hibiscus in her wide skirt rippled, oh fly in the web tonight crippled!
After midnight scores to settle, so she roams sharp as nettle.
Gorgeous in aura, wicked in nature;
La Diablesse night roaming tigress.

Oops, across a fallen branch he trips.
Under clear moonlight construe, of cloven hoof to view
Sweat stain body across, he signed himself a cross.

Cackle Cackle yuh get away! yuh get away!
Thus charmed, back into the ether of night she was gone.
COTTON FLORALS © gillena cox 2016


NOTE
1. Reposting COTTON FLORALS; inspired by a painting of Trinidadian Alfred Codallo [1913 - 1971] One can view his works at the National Museum,


2. Miss Mildred and Fred are just fictional names, not real people, used in this poem.

3.Glossary
La diablesse, pronounced - jab less[ in T&T folk lore a she devil]
yuh get away - you got away



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Good Monday folks. Eleven days away from Independence day [31st August] i thought, why not present our National Museum today in mosaic and poem.
The National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago, in Port of Spain, Trinidad is located at the top of Frederick Street, opposite the Memorial Park, and just south of the Queen's Park Savannah. The museum was established in 1892, as the Royal Victoria Institute. The building is an example of Victorian era colonial style of the British West Indies.


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20 August 2017
Cotton Florals 2016
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is Art





Tuesday, August 14, 2018

590

[image from pixabay; fair use]

BOXED EARS
Never quite got it, the reason i mean, for the saying.
"If i catch you doing [such and such] i'll box your ears".
Such a silly saying. [I mean in the face of boxes of chocolates]
Such a serious threat. With such painful gain.
BOXED EARS © gillena cox 2018


Quadrille #62 – Thinkin’ Inside the Box



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14 August 2017
...hat box
...dear old Pandora

Monday, August 13, 2018

Monday WRites 167

[drinking glasses in today's mosaic from the internet, fair use]

QUENCHED
remember those days... when water came from our kitchen taps...and we poured it into pretty glasses... the clear glasses we used for our water... the fancy patterned ones for juices...and always... there were the glasses we could drink from everyday...and there was the stash... in the cabinets.... we dared not touch...those were for special occasions... and if you visited someone's home you sat in the drawing room and you admired all the pretty wares...glasses included... in the cabinet... today... we put the plastic bottles to our mouths and we drink...our thoughts quenched...that...yes water comes from plastic bottles...
QUENCHED © gillena cox 2018


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Good Monday folks. August is special for me as i got married in August. Yesterday was my anniversary [although i live alone] But its a good date to remember for i have no regrets at having made that choice 47 years ago.

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Revisit
13 August 2016
13 August 2016.1
...pass the glasses 2015





Wednesday, August 8, 2018

588

[image from Pinterest fair use]


OF POEMS
of poems are the invisible side of being,
thoughts, feelings, emotions
those colours hidden under the skin
those words whispered at dawn
when silence blankets earth and sky

of poems are the invisible side of being,
how seethed in anger blood boils
heart flutters in young love
and passions sway with the fickleness
of being human

of poems are the invisible side of being,
hot and cold
and lukewarm givings
sinewy and bones, frames of living
truth, dare, adventure and understanding

of poems are the invisible side of being,
where sky meet sea at ocean's gathering
where no one can hide
unless we wraps our word-selves up in a bundle
to be where no one else in the world knows
OF POEMS © gillena cox 2018

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of poems
Sumana challenges "Okay, poem a poem about poem this week
My last line is a distortion of the last line from Rabindranath Tagore - Clouds and Waves "And no one in the world will know where we both are"

AND


unseen things



Revisit
8 August 2016
...invisible hands 2017
...invisible spider friends 2015

Monday, August 6, 2018

Monday WRites 166


Reposting one of my 2014 poems LAKE HILLIER
The Lady Dunaliella Salina
And her exquisite sister Halobacteria
Sit in their boudoir under the sea
Spinning threads of pink cotton candy

Who knows where yarns of gossip go
Of Wati kutjara or salty bro
This much i know above as below
For miles and miles all is pink aglow

bubblegum pink
a salty lake fascinates visitors
down under
© gillena cox 2014


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Good Monday folks. Already its August. I choose to mosaic a pink wildflower growing in my backyard. Just didn't know what else to do this Monday. August is named in honor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar (63 B.C.– A.D. 14), who was the grandnephew of Julius Caesar.

HERE ARE SOME PINK POEM I FOUND ON THE INTERNET
Pink Sari
Pink - Poem by Mark R Slaughter
Pink Little Comb

AND A PINK QUOTE
“If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.”
― Ibi Zoboi, from her book 'American Street'

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Ruby Tuesday Too -


Revisit
6 August 2017
a pink poem 2015
a pink poem 2017





Wednesday, August 1, 2018

586

[Umhlanga image from google dot com; Fair use]


A SET OF CONTRADICTIONS
Hot day, cold voices.
Cool skin, deep set longing.

Brave steps,
Rough unmolded stones.

Harmony where is your desire;
Pain your surcease?

Yin do you contradict yang;
What of sunset and moonrise?

Death and Life;
Your boundaries you clearly defined.

Feather light,
And apple sweet.
A SET OF CONTRADICTIONS © gillena cox 2018


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Poets United Midweek Motif ~
"a bundle of contradictions" (from Anne Frank's last letter)




Revisit
is the mud that luvs us 2017
1 August 2016
ode to a brown paper bag 2015