[last train to San Fernando photo from Google]
One day the train
Chugged along its rails
And rested
Never again to whistle
Clank or chug
Then the buses rolled
With people kids and goods
The way things change
After long long semesters
© gillena cox 2026
##all of the railways were finally closed on December 28th, 1968 in Trinidad🇹🇹
The Wonder Of A Smile
A smile can be healer
Better than a laugh
A smile can come easy
Only if you let
Meeting a stranger with
A greeting
A smile can surely help
If given happily
Heal the world
Smile today
Just one smile
Is all it takes.
A to Z of The Funnies
A witty thought just winged in
Better not to share it
Cause you might not think it funny
Delivery is so important
Even when it's stand up at
Five and dime stores
Garden parties or elsewhere
Hone your sport
Intent on entertaining
Jocular bites will only taste
Kosher if that pinch of jest
Lingers long after narrated
Mind you it can be short
Neither risque nor bawdy
Often tasteless content
Perturbes the listener to a yawn
Quietly think things through
Recite it in monologue
Surely its okay
To bore oneself
Until a masterpiece
Ventures in on
Wings of creativity
Xerox a few copies
Yours can start with
Zeus on the mountain resides
SERENDIPITY
Who would be calling me this hour
It wasn't an inappropiate time of day
Just, i wasn't expecting anyone
To call me this Sunday
Hi how are you, i answer
Fine she answers
Just had some plumbing problem
But that's sorted out
Good i answer
So would you be interested
In going to the performance
this evening at Queens Hall
I couldn't believe my ears
Its a show i had wanted to go to
This has to be my Christmas miracle
Yes, yes yes, my voice echoed
I have two tickets she chimed in
I can pay for one, i retorted
Having had lunch
It was just about getting dressed
And waiting for her to pick me up
What a treat
Great singing voices,
I had been enjoying for years
Presenting a local version of
The Nativity story complete with
Enough fun and laughter
What a treat!
Happy New Year
The sunlight is really bright. For more than half of the day i stay away from two rooms in the house, even though they have curtained windows.
The sunlight just takes over. Besides being hot the brightness is overwhelming. What the sunlight is really saying is, it's Carnival time.
The music on the radio is hotter, saucier. The parang rythms are stored away for another Christmastime
tap tapping
my first haibun for this year
Happy New Year
Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured
ENJOY THE MUSIC
Looking Back
this August rainbow,
remarkable as we were,
different colours,
red blue green yellow saw us,
clad in family,
first get together this way,
generations mixed,
sisters brothers cousins kids,
kids enjoyed the pool,
adults talked and talked on end,
sometimes a rainbow,
arcs to group a family,
both past and present,
yellow for my mom deceased.
© gillena cox 2025
[August 23rd 2025. Family get together. My brother and i. I am the first, he is the last. We usually tag ourselves The Alpha and The Omega'. My tee shirt is fluorescent yellow]
Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured
ENJOY THE MUSIC
