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Cassava is a root vegetable. It is the underground part of the cassava shrub, which has the Latin name Manihot esculenta. Like potatoes and yams, it is a tuber crop. Cassava roots have a similar shape to sweet potatoes. People can also eat the leaves of the cassava plant... [note from the internet]

 

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Mosaic Monday#37

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 401

Hope You had  A Happy Month of June; Stay Creative

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). 

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 If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow ...Emile Zola... 

 Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree ...Joyce Meyer...

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Today's Word is 'UNDERGROUND' Link up with one of your a post where the word 'underground' is present or the theme Underground is prenented

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I have chosen for this OLN my poem 'Imagination' first posted in 2015. You can listen to a reading

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 REMEMBERING MELODIES

Bird song at dawn belongs to awakening,

Grey sky has a chance now to colour brag,

Then to silver, some pinks are showing;

How in the planet's name do those birds 

Remember melodies, dawn belongs to awakening;

Coolness of morning shadows,

Lend to a new day of enjoying;

Vanilla ice cream will savour dessert spoons 

Licked to childhood rememberings,

Awe belongs in  every sunset,

Gratitude at sunrise, dawn belongs to awakening.

REMEMBERING MELODIES © gillena cox 2023

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What colour is hope?

challenge to think of three things that make you happy. Don’t overthink it. They don’t have to be the things that make you happiest, they don’t have to be the only things that make you happy, they don’t have to be particularly special. 

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How To Construct The Fold Poem here and here

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A Labour Day Wordle can look something like this

Another public holiday? Yes. Today in Trinidad and Tobago we celebrate Labour Day. 

Labour day is rife with history of oil field workers marches and strikes and attests to the evolvement of labour union in this twin island country.

Names like Tubal Uriah "buzz " Butler and Adrian Cola Rienzi come to foremind. Better working conditions and a voice for labourers are what all the strife and strikes were for. 

public holiday - 

a labourer stays at home 

planting flowers 

© gillena cox 2023 

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Haibun Monday 6-19-23: Liberation

challenge to write: Today, let’s celebrate liberation! Write a haibun that alludes to liberation, any way you conceive of it.

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Labour Day 2021

ENJOY THE MUSIC
 

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 400

Wishing You: A Happy Month of June; Stay Creative

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). 

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[John Donne image courtedy deVerse poetry pub]

 TOMORROWS COME

Oh what a day this moment sings

And yet the dawn hangs lower still

No happy songs no golden rings

These treacheries only can fulfil

Though dreams are smitten in ether 

Until they aware to  gleaming light

And hope reaching out to the future

Such is the posture of worrisome sight

Behold a rainbow throbbing across

A span of rainy season colours

Refusing to fade it brightens a sauce

Long enough though not for hours

Whose songs are sung to Aurora borealis

What humble tones escape throats in awe

What makes a day turn into this

The whim of destiny that's for sure

Flow as it go  tomorrows come

Wither their tunes prepared to hum

© gillena cox 2023

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MTB with John Donne and his heroic sonnet
challenge to write a heroic sonnet... 4 alternatively rhymed quatrains (a/b/a/b c/d/c/d e/f/e/f g/h/g/h i/i) and a rhymed couplet. It has no designated arrival of the volta (but it may actually have more than one) but the concluding couplet should summarize the message.

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 BOLD AND BRASSY-  A QUADRILLE

Music awes me 

like a  formation at dawn 

when sky plays her colour notes silent yet unyielding.

There is music at sunset sky too,  

like the Soca melodies of my Trini people. 

Bold brassy and compelling.

Music will outlive us all i am  sure.

BOLD AND BRASSY A QUADRILLE © gillena cox 2023

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dVerse — Poetics — Musical Muses

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[Although this mosaic is sunny and bright it is in fact a stormy rainy day here in T&T today]
 

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Come imbibe with me today!

[Challenge to write a quadrille including the work present ]

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Present tense, stormy rain;

Now blessed and fled;

To somewhere, where the ocean's

Tossing up a fit.

A storm is to be named;

Letter-A,  Letter-B,  Letter-C;

Which shall it be?

It only is the beginning still;

There's lots of time to assign,

Naming letters.

© gillena cox 2023

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Mosaic Monday #35

REVISIT

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 399
Wishing You: A Happy Month of June; Stay Creative

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). 

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Adding the linky again

TODAY'S WORD IS STORMY

link up with something

 STORMY