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Sunday Callaloo

Tied up on the market stall 

for buyers to take home,

A favourite is the blue crabs.

To cook in the famous Sunday callaloo.

Nearby are ochroes and dasheen bush,

  the green peppers,

and bundles of chive seasoning.

One stop for this Sunday favourite.

© gillena cox 2024

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MOSAIC MONDAY #91

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Quadrille #203: Feeling Crabby

a quadrille using tge word crab

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A Happy July to all 

[in my area the storms & hurricanes have started]

BE SAFE 

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[image from google]

Haibun - My Train Days

The Trinidad Government Railway existed between 1876 and 28 December 1968. Originally built to connect Port of Spain with Arima, the railway was extended to Couva in 1880, San Fernando in 1882, Cunapo (now Sangre Grande) in 1897, Tabaquite in 1898, Siparia in 1913 and Rio Claro in 1914.

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During my high school years, there was a phase in my transportation where i travelled from Chaguanas to San Juan by train. Those were for the most, for school children passengers, days of flirting and naughtiness.

The boys did what we called 'hopping the train' that is they waited until the train started moving, then they would jump aboard. (very dangerous i remember one boy of Chaguanas whom i knew got both his legs crushed) There was also those boys who would not spend money on a train ticket and dodged the 

inspectors from carriage to carriage. Then there was the 'throwing of powder' boys would buy small tins

of white talc - (thank god they were fragrant scented talc) and sometimes

baby powder; and they would go through the carriages sprinkling on any unsuspecting girls. Some girls giggled and flirted others who didn't would 'cut eyes' at such behaviour. Strange to say though i do not remember getting powdered. 

Those were just some of the behaviours on board. But that was not all; there was the scenery

which at that age i really did not ogle. But there it was, nevertheless, cane fields, rice fields, country houses. bison grazing etc etc. The poet in me i think, was sleepy in those days.

hoot hoot all aboard 

chug a chug clackety clack -

 mischief plays itself

 Haibun - My Train Days © gillena cox 2024

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Poetics: Travelling by train

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[sun art from Pinterest]

Haibun - solstice

The sun rises, the sun sets. An everyday occurrence. A breath of morning to the awakened soul. Another day of magical mystical naturalness.We expect to see the sky, the clouds the birds and trees perform their natural tasks. 

However, above and beyond this simple naturalness; stars shine, planets orbit and a gazillion other occurences purpose the universe. 

Those to whom these mysteries are solvable physics, will watch wait and relay to others of us more mundane in our knowledge. Like the forthcoming solstice of this month of June.Yet these occurences are already destined and planned according to thewill of the universal creator.

clouds shape their colour

according to the suns will -

another day's magic

© gillenacox2024

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Haibun Monday 6-17-24: Solstice

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Sunrise to Sunset

When sky plays her colour notes silent yet unyielding.

I bask in the magic of awakening

Here a hint of pink, a dash of yellow

And moon in her shapely forms looking on 

There is music at sunset sky too,  

The birds sing there roosting strains

There very own sweet goodbyes

Like the Soca melodies of my Trini people. 

Some tend to be

Bold brassy and compelling.

Others exciting as goodbyes often are

Sunrise to Sunset © gillena cox 2024

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MTB: Elaborating Lacunae in the Fragment or Keeping Things Whole

challenge:  use a fragment from a poem to write a new poem

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[Caris Reid, “Liminal Lunar Water Watcher,” 2016; courtesy deVerse poetry pub]

Door to Decision

Here, in this space between sweet and salty,

A fruit called mango hangs from a tree.

Should one pick the tree dry,

Deciding there and then, what a bountiful crop!

Some can be used to curry,

Some left to ripen,

The possibilities of sweet and savory,

As wide as the Caribbean Sea,

As boundless as every man's sky.

The door to decision remains open,

So choice can just walk right in,

No humbug no hindrance.

Put some in a pie!

The Grackles will flutter about for scraps,

And morning songs will still be sung by Kiskadees..

Door to Decision © gillena cox 2024

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Poetry in Liminal Spaces

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Dance of Unicorns and Dragons: a quadrille

To desire or not;

That is the conundrum

Of tomorrow's figment,oft

Stored there in fantasy.

For flights of unicorns and dragons,

know no woes,

Strangled once in labels

Of madness, few dare to expose.

Still few escape to survive 

Reality in another realm.

Dances of Unicorns and Dragons © gillenacox2024

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What do Mark Twain and a Purple Dragon have in Common?

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[Art of Catrin Welz-Stein]

Choice of Words

The words have chosen not to lie still 

Frozen in time and history,  

Not to conform to some printers will,  

But instead to frolic and gambol. 

Teasing, cajoling, near a windowsill; 

Like a cat to a bird on the other side,   

When days of rain seem to fulfill,

Dreams of a hunt with no misery

Of the hunter's unsuspecting thrill.

Choice of Words © gillena cox 2024

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dVerse – OLN 363 — Show Me the Movies

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Feeling a Bit Nostalgic Today!

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