Monday, March 8, 2021

Monday WRites 288

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Happy International Women's Day to all women visiting today  
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 #288: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
#121: Road Trippin Part 7

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Quadrille
Swift

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FLIGHT TO THE GODS
Swiftly to fly away
On wings through sky that way
How wonderous dreams do say

That birds alone
Are bound air bright have shown
Irony of man in magical pearly abalone
 
For smoke reaches the Gods in stealth
Slowly from shell of purifying wealth
© gillena cox 2021

#NOTE
In some Native American cultures, the shell of the abalone is used to burn sage. They believe the combined spiritual power of abalone and sage would take their messages to their Gods.
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REVISIT
8 March 2018
first woman blood
a woman chosen


Thursday, March 4, 2021

786

 

BUTTON NOSE OF A DACHSHUND 

At the edge of silence

A voice, a name pronounced right


Covid 19 protocols observed

We meet at the gate, but the puppy, sans mask


A bottle of wine is always welcome

Fringe benefits for a surprise visit


I respond to my name knowing and 

recognizing the call of a sibling


Long-time-no-see

© gillena cox


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Monday, March 1, 2021

Monday WRites 287

Lenten Stickers

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Welcome March. The fasting and penitence continues, Season of Lent.  
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 #287: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
#120: February Thrills and Chills

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Haibun Monday
Walk with me down Memory Lane

DIFFERENT KINDS OF ABODE
Many of the houses are wooden. Some are mud houses with thatched roofs. The latter i find amazing. People live there in sunshine and rain.

My house is a wooden house. The steps are many to get from the fowl coop and the kitchen downstairs to the main house upstairs.
 
At the back of my house is brick house and from there the grunt of pigs can be heard as they slop the mush. 

The headteacher's  just before my house (as the house numbers dictate) is a brick house, even though there is a dirt oven downstairs and a wooden area for the animals.

the sad eyes of cows
chewing chewing chewing
late into the evening
© gillena cox 2021


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REVISIT
Tiny Candles - A Haibun
Eagle - A Haibun
Glass Stilletos - A Haibun

Thursday, February 25, 2021

784

 

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SCALLOP DREAMS 

I am not yet a butterfly having the agenda 

To scallop through gardens blooming;

Nor the spirit to lightly skip through pollen 

On a breakfast menu of morning glories;


What if the wind should rip a wing 

When i emerge delicate, 

from my chrysalis of darkness and bliss;

Asleep to the wonders of pain and joy

Unknownst to clouds on a bright sunny day;


Cumulus clouds puffy and white

Wistful and alluring to the drama

Of a meadow unkempt

Of grasses waving below

© gillena cox 2021


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Monday, February 22, 2021

Monday WRites 286

Mosaic 1 - Lenten Stiickers

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We are in the Season of Lent. The Carnival Season is over. A more sober mood of fasting and penitence prevails.  
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 #286: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
#119: Feeding Tummies and Souls

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Going…Going…Gone Poeming 
{Quadrille #122}

GOING QUADRILLE
Who goes to the seaside to gather coal?
I never would have imagined your days gone cold,
had i not ventured in holiday mode,
Once and once again to my dear sister's abode
Who goes to the seaside to gather coal. Nobody  i know🙃
© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
22 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2017
...where is this poem going

Monday, February 15, 2021

Monday WRites 285

Last of my Carnival Past mosaics for 2021

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It's Carnival Monday here in Trinidad and Tobago, jouvert (dirty mas)  starts the adult street parades, however this pandemic year 2021 was quiet compared. The Carnival Season ends tomorrow. Though the spirit and vibe is present, the pandemic prevents crowd activities.  The music did  keep us in the mood and the new normal fostered all sorts of creatives: virtuals fetes, workshops,  and talk shops and look backs through the carnival archives and virtual competitions. 

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 #285: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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SOME OF MY JOUVERT POEM LINKS
how it starts raucous music high five mud mas inhibitions peeled primal self frenzy chocolate covered bathed in fun loving
jouvert revellers jouvert a renku


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#118: Another Revolution Around The Sun

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Prosery: The Song of Wandering Aengus
Prompted to use the Lines, in a prose not more than 144 words long.
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head


A FAIRY AFIRE
Nine hazel trees waved in the sun hot breeze. Fish in the pond jumped and frolicked below, in the shade of windswept boughs.

Who knows whether they were Salmon or Tilapia, as the report goes, they were fish. Fish who thought their sanctuary sacred. So much so, they lived peacefully among lazy caiman which ate their weight of water hyacinths in said dreamy haven. 

Till one day, a fire fairy wandered in from the next glen. She was so broken, her whole being ached from the longing for her unfaithful lover.

She sat under one hazel, head bowed, wings drooping, cradling  sorrow. This was  too much for her to bear. Before she exploded into a million tiny fiery bits headed toward the sun, she heard her own heart speak: "I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head"
© gillena cox 

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ENJOY THE MUSIC


Monday, February 8, 2021

Monday WRites 284


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 Its The Dry Season here in Trinidad and Tobago. We are also in The Carnival Season but the pandemic will prevent crowd activities; though the music will keep us   in the mood.

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 #284: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
#117: The Circle of Life

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DAWN: AN EMBRACE
You embrace with bird songs
New dawn, every grain of hope.
Your sunlight gently caresses
My mind, with mysteries of today.
How will i ever exist without
Your cloud hugs? 
Soft and puffy
Like sweet cotton candy at a fair
With ferris wheel rides.
© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
8 February 2018
8 February 2016
8 February 2014


ENJOY THE MUSIC