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A promise of better days

Even when caught in puzzling maze

The promise of sunlight

Even when the storm might

Blown your roof off

Yes promise not to scoff

For daylight's promise follows

Dark night shadows 

Promise moon to smile back

And smile back

© gillena cox 2024

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Time for a 44-word poem!, 

Challenge: to write a quadrille, the prompt word is  promise

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OCTOBER IS CALYPSO HISTORY MONTH IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY Mighty Bomber (1929 -2022)

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[Morning Song Canvas - Louise Salmon from the internet]

 Today i awake, i am thankful

But still i am lethargic

Just do this i say to myself

Otherwise i would savour 

Lethargy and wallow in it

Just do this i say to myself

So i plug in the kettle

Having filled it with water

Just do this i say to myself

I mean to have a cup of coffee

No milk, no sugar, just a bitter blend

Just do this i say to myself

Well i sip cause its hot

And praise the Almighty so deserving

Just do this i say to myself

I'm now in motion mode

There is a day ahead of me to live

Just do this i say to myself

© gillena cox 2024

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Poetics: Of Mantras, Repetita Juvant

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ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY Mighty Bomber (1929 -2022)

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[image from the internet]

 My son is in the driver seat. We are going towards the Oueens Park Savannah. Once there the Botanical Gardens is on our left and The Savannah on our right. It's the month of June, so the  Poui lining the perimeter are hushed in green, Oh,but Flamboyants  also called Gulmohar, wow!  these trees are showing off so much.

blossoming in flames

red/orange of Flamboyants

for miles around

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Haibun Monday 10-21-24: Fall foliage or Spring blossoms

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ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY Mighty Sniper

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[images courtesy deVerse Poetry Pub]

A CROWDED CANOPY

Dropstop the bird songs

They twitter on and on

As if the dawn were their platformstage

Who told them to singtwitter

Witholding butterflysundaes

Under a crayonscrawled canopy

Called sky

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YOU AND ME

We friends know each other's language,

You say hello i offer a guage,

Of your mood and the scent of sage,

Drifting into my cage,

Coming from your kitchen, age

Old altar of  skillful mage

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QUADRILLE - LIGHT

By light of sky's dawn

I pocket my yawn

Drag one plastic chair onto the lawn

I have no desire to be a fawn

The say it will be a supermoon

Were i in love i would swoon

For some,  love ends too soon.

© gillena cox

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Quadrille #210 – Let there be Light

Nghệ thuật Lê Phổ

Get to know kennings

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ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY LORD KITCHENER (1922 –2000)

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I-  Calypso

Lyrics to make a big man cry,

Sassy women to whine,

And elders' stories to narrate,

Calypso sweet sweet calypso.

II - Steelpan

And; ah likyting likyting likyting,

That's how the whole thing start,

Then the tuning and the styling,

Now steelpan  is world class.

III - Doubles

You can leave your house on empty belly,

Stand up under the doubles vendor's umbrella,

Breakfast with - hot mild or sweet sauce,

Nothing like a doubles to start a trini day.

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MTB: Counting to Three

CHALLENGE:choose your own, a well-known, or a random location from the website what3words.com

use your three words to write a 3 stanza poem

each word as topic per stanza

each stanza numbered or subtitled with the reference word

MY WORDS 

calypso...steelpan...doubles

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ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY  Mighty Bomber (1928 –2022)

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[image Samuel Palmer, The Harvest Moon, c. 1833 courtesy dVerse poetry pub]

Harvest Fold

Penny for thoughts? mine's worth more,

Why begrudge with such tiny offering,

As done in yon ancient yore,

Darnel  and wheat  a harvest to gather,

Of toil and endurance mine's worth more,

Life we know from struggle and reward,

Sets to slumber and to snore,

When  the harvest moon alights every sky,

With dreams and legends and fervent lore,

Dreamer and doctor fisher and farmer 

Field a plenty, mine's worth more.

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Poetics: Haunted Harvest

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ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY  LORD MELODY (1926 - 1988)

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[Ariadne giving Theseus string before he enters the labyrinth] image courtesy dVerse poetry pub

 Quadrille String

You plucked the strings of my heart

Carrying a tune like apples in a cart

Ruddy and fragrant and appetizing

Ours was a melody oh so enticing

Days meandered into weeks without dread

Time took its own path on a journey

so well tread

© gillena cox 2024

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dVerse — Quadrille Monday 209 — Plucking Strings

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