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A time traveller so enthused about his crash landing in the year 2024 decides to inscribe his presence in the hymn of eternity, he writes:

I will sing praises to pioneers and present-day celebrations. and I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss; so everyone will know the truth about badjohn fights and hooligan days, discarded oil drums and pan sticks.

Tag the page Trinidad and Tobago; Caribbean, a space tiny and unassuming. Assuming that the lines will also word the sweet sounds of steelpan music soaring so vast and wide that the world can all stand together and applaud at the same time. 'Oh Happy Day'.

For it's no longer a paragraph one scenario. I'ts now about energy, passion, respect. A culture realized and searchable. Then he down his quill to have a good last look around.

© gillena cox 2024

#NOTE: (fact) YESTERDAY AUGUST 11 WAS WORLD STEELPAN DAY

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Take This Waltz

Today's challenge is to write prosery (flash fiction) using the following lines from 

----Leonard Cohen

“And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,

with the photographs there and the moss.”

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 Asking Sara

You have crossed over

Is there enough ink

To scribe the journey

Was it plain sailing

To the other realm

Sincerely asking

Are your words with you

So are you writing

Sunsets are golden

Morning comes again

We are not angry

Your words enlighten

Avid poets sway

mystery beholden

Ink here is flowing

You  there are resting

© gillena cox 2024

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MTB: An Octameter for August and Sara Teasdale

 today’s prompt to write an Octameter – designed by Shelley A. Cephas in 2007

Poetry Style:

16 lines

2 stanzas of 8 lines each

5 syllables per line

rhyme scheme a/b/c/d/e/d/f/d; g/h/c/g/i/g/d/d.

(N.B. watch out for those repeat rhymes and where they fall; 2 in the first stanza and 3 in the second stanza)

Poetry Topic: There is no set theme but if you wish to try and write in the style of Sara Teasdale or dedicate a poem to her, with or without epigraph,

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To Sleep To Awake

 when you say goodbye

in a dream is there a bridge

one must cross over

or is it a catapult 

 to gazillions

of light years a soul travels

or more so a blink

of a subconscious lid

called awakening

© gillena cox 2024

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Poetics: Dreaming up a Poem

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Door Ajar,

Door ajar

A peek allowed into her heart,

She loves wholeheartedly 

Still expecting love in return

She allows only a peek into

A heart that can easily be wounded 

A door that can open to

A jar full of fireflies

Given with a smile

© gillena cox 2024

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Quadrille #205 – A Jar Full of Poems

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A Happy AUGUST to all

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 It's here again. Another four year span culminating in Olympics. This year Paris hosts after 100 years since serving as host country.

A novelty opening has competing countries sailing around the Seine. Flags waving cheering to onlookers

It is the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics (although the Trinidad and Tobago athletes previously attended four other editions under the British colony and under the West Indies Federation)

The summer Olympics presents the best of the best to a worldwide audience. Every athlete doing his or her best for their countries.

Those fans not so lucky to be in the Paris stands view their TV screens and other devices.

a medal winner

smothered in hugs and kisses -

wears her country flag

© gillena cox 2024

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Haibun Monday 7-29-24: Summer Olympics 2024

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Hope you had a happy and safe July 

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 Quadrille Summersault

The circus is coming  

She will be going

What better event to enjoy

Now school vacation is here 

Tickets already bought 

Expectations riding high 

Therre'll be lions and tigers 

And rings of fire

The clowns will certainly 

Do their summersaults 

The circus is coming 

© gillena cox 2024

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Quadrille #204 – Summertime, and the Poeming is Easy

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A Happy and safe July to all 

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 [art of Alma Thomas]

Focus - a Fold poem

Since today her focus is spot on,
Camera clicks, a memory frozen,
When her child was born
Back then she didn't own a camera ;
Not so now, her focus is spot on,
Time must bow at her feet
So swiftly yesterday is gone
With sunshine brightly at day then
Moon in her shapely goings on
Allows the stolen light to shine
Freezing time, her focus is spot on,
© gillena cox 2024

NOTE
How to construct The Fold Poem HERE
and HERE

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Writing “something beautiful”

art of Alma Thomas; write in response to one of her art given

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Open Link Night #365 (with Live edition)

 

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