Monday, December 28, 2020

Monday WRites 278


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SHU TWENTY TWENTY - A FOLD
Should be shove out bad ole twenty twenty?
Go! on be on your way,  go! shu shu git,
A year of novel ways,  and sorrows aplenty;
Distances magically widened beyond belief,
Who'll raise a cheer to bad ole twenty twenty?
Now everyone is a superhero, wearing a mask;
Tsk, tsk, a world of sad sameness made so easy;
Coughing and sneezing are things of the past,
So are hugs and kisses, though this might seem petty,
But oh! this is  the way we must strive and survive,
We'll surely remember, this bad ole twenty twenty?
© gillena cox 2020

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 Last Monday of 2020; a year we will never forget, a year of distancing and loss, sorrow and adjusting. Yet, here we are in the 'Holiday Season' waving our good cheers of a better next year.

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Welcome to Monday WRites #278: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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#111: The Twelve Posts of 2020

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REVISIT
BAUBLES 2019
HIBISCUS 2016
New World behind the mask 2020 


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ENJOY THE MUSIC: - Deck The Halls

Monday, December 21, 2020

Monday WRites 277

 



SEASON OF COVID 19  - A FOLD
In a long season of pandemic,
Joy of a Christ child interrupts;
A great comfort this is, no polemic.
Welcome savior, welcome Emmanuel.
For in this long season of pandemic,
We need, more so now, the strength  of love;
And a measure of hope than can merit,
The healing, from a plight that overshadows,
Light of wisdom and survival endemic;
Too long, too long now this season of pandemic.
© gillena cox 2020

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#110: Holiday Hijinks

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21 December 2017
21 December 2014
21 December 2014.1


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ENJOY THE MUSIC: - O Come O Come Emmanuel


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Monday, December 14, 2020

Monday WRites 276

[Mosaic 1 Rose Candle]


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[Mosaic 2 Christmas Flair Jigsaw Puzzle

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Third week of the Season of Advent. We wait again in hope 
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Quadrille #118: In the Inglenook
 
MY INGLENOOK
There's neither snow blizzard nor hoar
Yet i seek shelter to be lost and wonder
With my little gifts of dinosaurs
I spend my time in my little corner 
Snug in pandemic days with little monsters
In an imagined Inglenook gives me much pleasure
© gillena cox 2020

NOTE:
An inglenook (Modern Scots ingleneuk), or chimney corner, is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The word comes from ingle, meaning "fireplace" in Old English (from Old Scots or Irish aingeal, "angel" or euphemistically "fire"), and nook.


REVISIT
14 December 2017
14 December 2015
14 December 2014



ENJOY THE MUSIC: - O Come O Come Emmanuel

Monday, December 7, 2020

Monday WRites 275

 


[Mosaic 1 Christmas Baubles]

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[Mosaic 2 Mall Scenes Jigsaw Puzzle

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Second week of the Season of Advent. We wait again in hope 
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#108: Christmas Spirit

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Some Prosery Cheer
Prompted to include in a bit of prose limited to 144 words this line
Reading what I have just written, I now believe
Louise Gluck, from Faithful and Virtuous Night


BEAUTIFUL MOON
The moon is beautiful a Japanese writer once intimated, to say I love you. 
Sitting here, alone in my back yard, watching another rounded moon, i remember
 the times i said that to you, those precious words about our moon, not knowing of its Japanese metaphor.
I feel its presence now, this beautiful moon. Its shapeshifting moodiness and its brilliance are all a part of  me.
Alone, i  look up and somehow i do not feel lonely. A heart that loves feels longing, 
But is never lonely.
Reading what I have just written, I now believe.
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
7 December 2016
7 December 2015
2015 love give me...



ENJOY THE MUSIC: - Sovereign Grace

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

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BLURSDAYS: A SEVENLING

Every Blursday  birds sing at the appointed time

The same tune "wake up to a new day"

Don't these critters know its Blursday


Phase zero of lockdown days

Sun rises, sun sets 

Quiet streets rock the sonorous silence 


Early hand washing crazy corona days

© gillena cox 2020


NOTES
# The ABCD image contains some of the given words i found striking, though i only used Blursday in my poem today.
##While we here in T&T are no longer in  complete LOCKDOWN, Blursday is a reflection of that phase of our dealing with Covid 19.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Monday WRites 274


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First week of the Season of Advent. We wait again in hope 
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Quadrille 117
The Dude Abides

AYE THERE BE HOPE
All you paragraphs, sentences, phrases abide with me.
For within your clauses are the causes you see.
So voiced are the words written
Into silence on pages, paper and eletronic being.
Fitted to sorrow, to joy, to
Pandemic depressions to 
Poems and to hope.
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
30 November 2015
First week of Advent 2017
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ENJOY THE MUSIC: O Come, Emmanuel - Lindsey Stirling & Kuha'o Case


Monday, November 23, 2020

Monday WRites 273

Mosaic 1: My Children's Books. ADD TO YOUR GIFT LIST. Purchase from online bookstores

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO MY USA FRIENDS
Thanks giving is not a tradition or holiday here in T&T. You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #273: A Happy Monday to all.
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#106: My Thanksgiving

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Haibun MondayBeing but human

 GLASS STILLETOS 2018

He wears his tux so handsomely. And she just meeting his sholders, in her glass stilletos. They pledge their love with romantic songs, now that the church binding part is done. 

Games, speechs, dinner. The clink of glasses to toast the Mr and Mrs. Meeting the guests, all RSVP. And the wedding waltz.

We leave the wedding hall well pleased. A long line of traffic is expected  for a public holiday. Its been an awesome day surely

 vanity for sure
the blue moon watching herself
sea surface mirror
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
23 November 2017
23 November​ 2015
wedding 2018

Its Day 62 of 100 Days of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 radio station







ENJOY THE MUSIC: Baron Christmas Mix by DJ Firestorm (SOCA PARANG MIX)

Monday, November 16, 2020

Monday WRites 272

Saturday 14th here in T&T was a holiday. Divali The Festival of Lights observed by the Hindu community. Divali is well embraced into our society so that non Hindus as well participate in the celebration by way of greetings, and in simple ways such as cusine, clothing and going out to see the lights. On the street where i live, this has been a large as life neighbourhood event in pre Covid years embracing persons from other parts of the country and as well foreigners to the event. This year 2020, sadly because of The Covid 19 protocols there was no visible signs of the Festival, street lighting, or visits to our street. 

Mosaic 1: DIVALI PAST

Mosaic 2 Divali Jig Saw Puzzle
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 Mosaic 3: Thanks For The Food

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#105: Road Trippin', Part III

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Quadrille #116: Poem Those Possibles


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Quadrille #116: Poem Those Possibles

POSSIBILITIES
POSSIBILITIES
The possibility of making a poem possible
Strikes me as not impossible
Largely susceptible to whims and wordiness 
Additionally likely to colour and moodiness
A muse stir into such accord will possibly
Allude to tantrum tongue twisters  audibly
Possible peacocks pruned to pretty plummage?
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
2016 Divali Flickers
16 November2015
possible fun 2019

Its Day 55 of 100 Days of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 radio station





ENJOY THE MUSIC: Mamacita BY Sharlene Boodram