Monday WRites 324

In today's Mosaic 1. green bananas (we Trinis say green fig) from my back yard. Tis variety is used green for cooking. 2. boiled sliced served with an omelet. 3. boiled sliced with  fish and a salad.

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Happy  month of November to all visiting. 

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

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Mosaic Monday #153: The Engagement

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Prosery - Bombarded

Asked to use the line "I am bombarded yet I stand" in a prose not longer than 144 words

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smaller and smaller

I am bombarded yet i stand: The curfew hours, State of emergences , lockdowns, constant hand washings, mask wearing, children zoom schooled, deaths, hospital bed spaces filled.

Now i am ready with flattening the curve: the vaccines, the opening of borders, the disposal masks, the designer masks, the nod of the head in greeting, the children returning to school.

Ready to understand and accept the new normal living.  In our largeness, this global village; we,  have become smaller and smaller

. © gillena cox 2021

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8 November 2016
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3 Deyas was first posted at Lunch Break

TINY APOSTLE

Tonight lights crave the outdoors  jostle

And will it  be for a long time so

The deya light tiny apostle

Abandoning the welcoming night spectacle

Though the lights crave outdoors jostle

Tonight the protocols says no

No to crowding and the years gone hustle

Now that masks are worn atop smiles

That crowds cease to mingle and to bustle

Now that wisdom seldom goes for show

Ah but the lights crave the outdoors  jostle

© gillena cox 2021

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4 November 2016

4 November 2015

Divali Past

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Meet bar with conceit

 

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MY GARDEN 

Another Crown of Thorns enters

My garden, another gift of tiny

Petals paired with unique flowers

With stems carrying sharp thorns? 

And another Crown of Thorns enters

Thorny, like the showy bougainvillea

Succulent like the herbal aloes

A space awaits each new pot

For here is where beauty gathers

To outdo one another in quiet rivalry

And yet another Crown of Thorns enters

 MY GARDEN © gillena cox 2021

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2 November 2020

2 November 2017

2 November 201​6

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Poetics: Concrete or Abstract? 

 Challenge to write a poem using only concrete nouns, subject matter and imagery

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Monday WRites 323

November is here. Happy  month of November to all visiting. 

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

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Mosaic Monday #153: The Village of Tyuonyi

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 Blue Monday: Day of The Dead

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Closing in on the end of 2021

To write a quadrille using the prompted word - careen

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Quadrille - Careen

This year swiftly steals by enmasked.

Still hidden are smiles to public guise

We careen felled by a virus 

Unpredictable as the internet

Cruel as an angry storm 

Our unsteady wobbly legs learned

That walking was a gift of  

Going places and getting up close

. © gillena cox 2021

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01 November 2017
01 November 2016
The bewitching night is over"

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky-All Saints Day II

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WHORL OF ZINNIA PETALS - A Fold Poem

The zinnias were single whorled

They were pretty pinks and bright

Back in the day when i was a child

How i loved  too the orange bursts.

Our zinnias were single whorled

The Barbados Pride and the Vandas

The variety of colour always heeded

Reds, purples, and sunny yellows

A bouquet in which i ever reveled

Days of pulling out weeds by hand 

My zinnias were single whorled

 WHORL OF ZINNIA PETALS © gillena cox 2021

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28 October 2016

days of our childhood

back into childhood days

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Weekly Scribblings #93: Kid Stuff

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Open Link Night #303

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DUODORA - SOME TRUTH

Humbly  humbly

Bow creativity

Curtains rise and fall

Drama takes mid stage

Lies are not fiction

Creativity needs loud applauding

Off with your heads spirits of the untruth

Humbly  humbly

Those grinning skeletons 

 Sorry excuses

Imperfect species

Oh for Suzi's sake!

Take responsibility right the wrongs

Forsooth just sweeten the pot with some truth

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27 October 2015

Halloween treats 2017

a sloppy floppy Halloween tale

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Halloweeny Humans

Challenged to  write A Duodora :

a quatorzain made up of 2 septets.

syllabic,  4/6/5/5/5/10/10 syllables per line.

rhymed Axxxxxb Axxxxxb L1 is repeated as a refrain that begins the 2nd stanza. x is unrhymed.

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Monday WRites 321

 Today's mosaic a photo and  water colour painting. Sky Over The Falls

 

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

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Mosaic Monday #152: The Land of Enchantment

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Haibun Monday 10-25-21: Fear

Challenge - to  write a haibun

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HAIBUN - FEAR

My heart thumps the wildest, when the earth shakes

the slightest tremor, the loudest quake. Seconds of life slip away. To where i retreat, my mind leaves

no trace. Like dying again and again, without the preps for the surgeon's knife. 

The knives, bombs, guns, that anger and hatred dish out to  the starving appetite of war,

via mass media, be it fact be it  fictions. Those stories i can live without. Such are the violent events that bring terror to my heart. 

There is fear too in loneliness, but there, challenges for joy in solitude reward the willing learner.

sometimes the dawn

lingers too long in absence

of bird whistles

© gillena cox 2021

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25 October 2016
wallsclosing in
taste and see

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