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Today's mosaics 'stories and haiku' After reading my book The Naughty Angel to a group of holiday campers at the NALIS Port of Spain Library a haiku workshop was a fitting event on which to end the session.

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A HAPPY AUGUST to all my visitors and friends

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❧✿❧ THAT' MY TYPEZooming in. Putting the freeze on. A process of selection. Like pulling out the petals and removing the thorns to get to the aroma of the rose. Haibun, tanka, haiku; short forms, that's my type,  especially, the haiku.
day without rain a plumeria plucked© gillena cox 2022

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CREATIVITY SPARKS

Really...

Its not as if follow fashion lacks class, that one has to tippy toe on down cat walk;

All the while purring silk when in fact, roar is the more appropriate respond to the applause.

Depends...

Is moment all the time in the world? 

Or does life extend to outer spheres

Willing to classify lapels and 

sewing threads outside the clique?

Moreso...

Does light have to shine only in constricted spaces?

Isn't  night bigger than moon?

Yet moon shines to the applause of stars.

CREATIVITY SPARKS © gillena cox 2022

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BACK THEN - AUGUST 

August claimed to its fame

The name August Vacation

Even if schools closed in July

The longest school closing 

Following on its heels was

The new school term

Going to a new class 

With the smell of new books

The fortunate kids flew to

America, regardless of which state

Back at school they boasted

They went to America

Stay-at-home vacationers

Pelted mangoes, papered books

Spent time in the country by gran

And returned to school fattened

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LOOKING UP WAY UP

 I look up to blue skies smoking white clouds puffy, to a map of sunlight glistening here, while her sisters weep in torrential monsoon rains. 

 Is it because the moon dances her way into ripeness that the stars twinkle in delight of cobalt nights and coquettish surrender?

 Winsome are dreams of little girls who wait in tiredness for sugar plum fairies. Best they wait instead for charitable tooth fairies who leave small treasures behind. 

Daylight greets trees leafy green, even if the rains have left droplets to create tiny rainbows at their edges. 

 

green mangoes dangle -

 boys will have to wait awhile

 for their ripening

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ITS  holiday in Trinidad and Tobago today

HAPPY EMANCIPATION DAY

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SAY  NOW

 Now however is the time

 Time stays still for our words 

Words preserve the yesterday 

Yesterday contained in a poem 

 Poem today sunny and bright 

Bright allamandas the hedge adorn 

Adorn your syllables to the music 

Music the retort of dawn's presence 

 Presence of harbingers 

Harbingers announcing another day 

Day comes with adventure 

Adventure far beyond knowing 

 Knowing nothing of the future 

Future the scientists provoke 

Provoke the climate to change 

Change and flow we must now 

© gillena cox 2022

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Today's mosiac 'Masking Up 2022 😊 selfies.  

Wearing the mask is now the wearer's choice. From 17th July, the mandate for wearing the mask in public has been removed, here in Trinidad and Tobago. I continue to wear my mask in public and so far wherever i go when i leave home, people are still wearing the mask.

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To mask or not to mask

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QUADRILLE WRAPThe air is cool. Smoky clouds enwrap a moon,  one of  the larger ones. The kind you look at and wonder how come the night lamp is there and you never noticed it.
a super mooni wrap my dreams knowingthis night ceases© gillena cox 2022

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