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 Hands Emgaged Love Language

Coconut grated on a tin grater

Enough water added

Coconut milk squeezed 

Through fine cotton cloth

Sugar stirred into coconut milk

Boiled, until thickened and pastey

Maybe chocolate could be added

Or maybe ginger

Beat beat beat thicken some more

Thick enough to scoop out 

Onto a flat surface

Perhaps a large plate

Cut into squares when cool enough

A snack, a delight for children cherished

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 Quadrille - Whirl

What a whirl of weird goings ons,

Badjohn talk,  terrorize the Caribbean,

And, as if that is not enough,

A whirligig of a hurricane with hit no miss

Words, words, watch your words

US, Venezuela, China, Russia

Let peace instead  whirl

Peace! whirl peace.

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So Be It

 How is it that a fruit will ripen hence 

With birds drawn to its presence with whistles

From afar and from near not for a pence

But in a form of mood that is skittles 

They know when and where to get there vititles

Thus freely taken as freely given. 

No worries these favoured feathered even

If day should be long or short appearing

Ah but we to fuss and panic is then

Made to show aging lines quick in coming 

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 Its alive, it moved

She poked the sand with a stick

Something like eyes stared

Lot of eyes, looking angry

She shivered, jumped back

In sheer surprise of this thing

Scowling in the sand

Had she known she would have left

Right there and then, but

Curiosity held her

Like butter on bread

Halloween night, time of fright

Fantasy holds fast

Imagination rambles

Blue crabs in dim light

Scuttled away in the night

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My Haloween Haibun( end with 3 haiku)

I aim to write a Haloween story. It must be gruesome and chilling. Nevermore nevermore call me chicken. This is not a travelogue.  This is not a resurrection issue. This writer is evolving. So set your mind to do some reading, some thrilling, chilling reading.

he eats his bride

green monster Frankenstien -

stroke of midnight

headless horseman

to buy a swifter steed -

sells his head

wrapped in linens -

awaked he calls his dad

mummy dearest

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Ihis is what i hope to read at Saturday's live online

Sketching Salvation

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 Play Mas

masqueraders fill the street 

the road is all yours 

that time of sunny year when

Whine and jab cohorts 

beads and buntings quivering 

bodies dancing free 

music is appropriate  

carnival time oui!

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