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CLOUD SELF
Always it is about the wider expanse
Today i am dawn greying into azure
Then soon i am bird song winging
My way into noon shadows
Cooling down to twilight fantasies
Now i call myself silhouettes
No longer am i shadow

But was i ever greying, winging, cooling.
Am i ever bird song at dawn
Golden at twilight
Is there ever measure to the wider expanse

Where are yesterday's cumulus puffs
Where are the thick dark clouds hiding
A shy moon at night
Where are those morphing clouds
Following that lonely wanderer

Am i even transience
Worthy of a cloud-self
CLOUD SELF © gillena cox 2019


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REVISIT
27 February 2017

Monday WRites 194

WHEN THE CHILDREN PARADE
Here comes morning carrying her jug of sunlight
Here comes the twittering birds oh such a delight
The songs they sing of beauty and of colour
The tales they tell each one to the other

A rainbow in the sky adds her smile
Clouds are cousins their hugs span for miles
Something's in the preparation pot
Something's in the brewing oh so hot

Stripes of a zebra stamped black and white
And a lion may decide to be a kite
All this is possible fun is here too
And trucks full of music are there too

Here comes the Sunday of Carnival
Happily toting its boys and gals
WHEN THE CHILDREN PARADE © gillena cox 2019




[Mosaic and other photos by Gillena Cox]

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Goodbye to the Mondays of February, "parting is such sweet sorrow" ❧✿❧ Yesterday was the Children's Parade of Carnival through Western Main Road in St James.
You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). A Happy Monday to all
Welcome to Monday WRites #194, ❧✿❧ What's your mood like today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites.




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REVISIT
24 February 2015

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[A photo of me 1983 when i played mas in the band The River]

FUN IN THE SUN
White and frilly, frilly and white;
Monday's costume, come Tuesday,
Will drip with colours, of
Last day excitement, competition,
Frenzy, fanciful and inexorable.
Swaying to rhythms of this kaiso
And that kaiso and yet another,
In the hot, hot, sun;
Which masqueraders have immunity to,
For two whole days.
Ash Wednesday ashes might soothe the soul but,
It never erases the fun of Carnival days.
FUN IN THE SUN © gillena cox 2019

“Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.” ― C.S. Lewis

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REVISIT
20 February 2018
20 February 2017


LISTEN to these two music videos of the same 2019 song 'de savannah grass' . Tell me which you prefer. (✿◠‿◠)

Monday WRites 193

STARDUST AND SPLENDOR
A flaming sword guards my heart,
Now eternity cannot have its; way,
Of breaking bonds, and spinning
Yarns, not intent to right crafting.

That which burns with fiery dread
Will offer to the ill-fated stranger,
Lessons in trust and worth, for my heart
Is a tender place of love, a succor of hope

An oasis of faith, a bounty of sweetness.
My cherubim will utter no, not for you
Unworthy one, come no closer.
For peril, awaits the intent of disrepute

This heart is bound for glory days
For evenings of stardust and splendor.
STARDUST AND SPLENDOR© gillena cox 2019

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My apologies to Monday WRites fans i did not post last Monday on my birthday. Hope you lovers and Romantics had a nice St Valentines Day ❧✿❧
You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). A Happy Monday to all
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REVISIT
18 February 2019

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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved”— George Sand

LOVE QUESTIONS
How many times have you heard this word love
How many times have you read this word love
How many times have you spoken this word love
How many times have you sung this word love
How many times have you seen this word love
How many times have you acted this word love
How many times have you counted this word love
How many times have you wanted this word love
How many times have you tasted this word love
How many times can you just be love
LOVE QUESTIONS © gillena cox 2019

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13 February 2018
13 February 2017
13 February 2016
13 February 2015

ENJOY THE MUSIC

Monday WRites 192

MAYBE A SONNET
I wanted to write you a love song,
Throbbing with fullness of passion.
But words kept dancing all of it own,
To silent strum of a syllabic moan.
Commas, full stops, semicolons, dashes.
That was when i knew i should,
Instead write you a sonnet if i could.
And still the letters curved to all shapes;
Like bananas, apples, cantaloupes, grapes.
The L was elusive, the O, just the same;
Maybe, i should has sketched your name,
To the horizon where earth and sky meet,
Where lovers are given mystical retreat,
Where E and V dance in a word forever.
MAYBE A SONNET © gillena cox 2019

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February is upon us, the month I love most. My birthday is next Monday and St Valentines Day on the 14th ❧✿❧
You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). A Happy Monday to all
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