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THIS POEM IS A GLIMPSE, A SMILE AND A KISS

This poem is a glimpse

This poem a smile

This poem is a kiss

This poem is a glimpse as of

Strangers, but not so at all,

It is you, full of mischief 

After our recent tryst

This poem is the smile you 

Toss, at my greedy heart,

Wanting more, so much more

Of you, i swear i will swoon

This poem is a feather light kiss.

The kind that tingles and awakens

Desire, seeping through bones, to soul

Correct in effervescence

This poem is that glimpse of you, hours after

This poem is your smile, lingering through my day eternalizing minutes

This poem is your kiss, light enough to stir my soul.

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 It is disgustingly disturbing the way lips forget. What they have kissed, become not sacred but obliterated and the taste of desire lingers like a gnawing hunger, biting into the secrets of night.

How many days must traverse one calendar before, feelings speak their truth. Before moons ripen bright in night skies for lovers to swoon over, with future promise.

The blue moons, the black moons, the super moons, all with their lights  of varing orb. When is a kiss sealed, to tomorrow, still lingering in the now

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 Left or Right: A Fold

Walk with me, this sunny day

Let's count our strides; one

Two, three, here to there, may

Get us only to the curve, just

Barely; yes, this sunny day

Clear of the front gate, here

The Western Main Road, lay

Shall we go left, or go right,

To the market place i dare say

Not to distant, stacked with 

Goodies to fetch, this sunny day

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I'd Rather Go Blind?

Oh no no no,

I'd rather it was not so

How do you sound colour

How do you taste dancing

Yes to the dancing feet

That i may meet

Out in the street 

In colours glorious 

Let these eyes behold continous

Children's carnival 

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 When Flowers Bloom In The Street

Yesterday was the Sunday

For Children Carnival parade

In St James 🇹🇹  near where i live

St James 🇹🇹  comes alive

Old and young dancing

Watching the children

The sun is hot hot

But nobody really cares

Watching the parade 

The children enjoy

Displaying their fancy

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 Shine For The Carnival

The sun shines brighter

For all the brightest days

Then music can shine too

Prefacing the merriment

In the street when two days

The sun shines brighter

Then the gustiness

Carry more dust held tightly

For all the brightest days

A season so dry

Carefree and full of humour  

Then music can shine too

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It's Dry Season and also Carnival Season here in T&T🇹🇹

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Like  Real Dry Season

 Seems the weather has deceided to behave, like a child finally, understanding the lolipop is within reach of discontinued tantrums.

Its sunny today, and bright, and gusty, and dusty, like true true Dry Season i used to know, before climate deceided to change her ways.

Carnival is a season, like Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter. Complete with its colour schemes, events, actions and music.

Carnival ends with two days of carefree costuming and dancing in the streets in groups called Carnival Bands, giving way to the solemn sacred Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten Season.

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It's Dry Season and also Carnival Season here in T&T🇹🇹