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In T&T, March is a cool down after February's carnival madness unless; the carnival is in early March, here then, the madness is in tact.

No tea party here; it's party on the road for two days after the seasonal carnival parties, more commonly refered to as carnival fetes.

Alice's March hare will easily fit in. Carnival is about colour, costume, dance/whine, alcohol, allowed 'misbehaving' within limits. Lots of words chanted in calypso/ kaiso/soca 

musical forms.

children's carnival -

mother push carts her baby

dressed as a bunny

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A Bud Yearns - a fold

Tangled in vines of thought

A yearning for season change

Buds on iron railings wrought

Cannot surffice her longing

For it is her garden of thought

Where future days are cropped

Already set to days that ought

Rejuvenate her fertile mindset

She's anxious to blossom sort

That trees may dress up oh so

Remorse loosens in vibes of thought

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Pelau

A happy mixup - pelau,

True true trini food,

Just like our trini people,

This and That and The Other,

But really, a browned rice cookup,

With pigeon peas and meat.

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Dawn holds mystery of silence,

Based on what is known,

What is remembered,

What has not so long ago passed,

The sunset which slipped behind the horizon,

The silver linings to host,

A day moon before, 

The raucous, of birdsong,

And my pen writing.

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Good poets of dVerse

I salute you every one

Let's raise a glass

Let's make a toast

Enjoying words and phrases

Never tiring of clauses

Always willing to read

Come my fellow poets

Open your notebooks

Xanthic or weather worn

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Leprechaun In The Lawn

May you always be blessed

And never ever be cursed

May your shoes fit snugly

So you never trip or fall silly

May you drink your beer

Be you far or near

May you dance on a shamrock lawn

But never upset a leprechaun

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[ Kay Sage, I Saw Three Cities, 1944 from google]

Eternal Day

Sun and moon destined to shine, in azure or obsidian skies. They know their times and stations. Whether super, full, or black, eclipse or otherwise. Tides and moods stringed to their events helplessly flow in following. 

What of wars are they chimed in here too. Is war always inevitable? Must they always be at their appointed times. And what of peace, why can't we all, everyone, enjoy peace simultaneously.

It all belies, our existence; we wait, and are still denied. Or maybe, it is like day and night? Hours of light and hours of darkness? In one whole and eternal day.

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“It all belies

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From
“Winter-Lull” by D.H. Lawrence
https://poets.org/poem/winter-lull

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