Monday WRites 234

[in today's mosaic - Children's carnival 2020 in St James LAST WEEK Sunday, and me having a refreshing coconut water TODAY during this morning's jouvert]

It's Carnival Monday today. Tomorrow Tuesday is the last day of the Season of Carnival.
Enjoy FEBRUARY dwindling

❧✿❧ 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). Welcome to Monday WRites #234: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#68: 15 Miles on a Skipton Canal


AND



Quadrille #98 – Peelings, Nothing More…

THE SPECTATORS SAY
More and more inhibitions are peeled from the masquerade
Leaving costumed spirits
Free to dangle beads and strings,
Entities kicking up dust in the theater of international players
This is carnival scaled down
Drones of rhythms,
Meeting spaces of bodies gyrating to sun rays
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
24 Feburary 2016
24 Feburary 2015

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ENJOY THE MUSIC

Monday WRites 233

[in today's mosaic - Children's carnival 2020 yesterday in St James, and some crochet hearts i made for my grand daughter: photos © gillena cox]

Its what we call here in T&T CARNIVAL WEEK: Carnival Monday and Tuesday is 24 & 25, last days of the Season of Carnival.
Enjoy FEBRUARY ( a month i always claim as my month): month of unfixed days - sometimes 28 sometimes 29 days, my Birthday , Valentines Day, Carnival

❧✿❧ 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). Welcome to Monday WRites #233: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#67: Feeling The Love


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Prosery: Between Heartbeats
HAIR OF GOLD
About two years have passed between visits. I have grown accustomed to intervals of kindness, funny jokes which makes for laughter long and hearty ha ha ha-s. Longer still i have known him, hair a bronze kind of gold. In those days, for school children, hair colouring was unheard of, so yes that was his natural colour. But that was years ago.

We thought we had fallen in love, until we both married our destined spouses. We kept in touch by letter and card. That was the connecting way in those days. Until waning interest, put a comma there. Then the connections started again. This time there were visits since he had migrated. But always intervals of kindness and laughter.

So when in 2020 he declares. There is no God, i am caught off guard, i freeze. Indeed, there are moments caught between heart-beats.
© gillena cox 2020

NOTE: Today Kim is prompting at Dverse, she ask that we write a bit of prose not more than 144 words including the line "There are moments caught between heart-beats" taken from the poem Coda by Louis MacNeice



REVISIT
17 Feburary 2018


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image credit

My favourite Soca singer got married on St Valentine's Day this year
ENJOY A BIT OF HIS MUSIC

701

good things come in small packages

grandmothers of old would say
those days permission requesting

prescribed were letters
for the hand of a daughter
by an anxious suitor
STORY OF GOOD THINGS © gillena cox 2020

REVISIT
12 Feburary 2018
12 Feb Feburary 2016

Blog hopping today with
Poets And Storytellers United
Weekly Scribblings #6: Turn Cliché into Poetry or Prose
Prompt: Turn Cliché into Poetry or Prose. Take one cliché, two clichés, three clichés, or as many clichés as you like and turn them into new poetry or prose (stories, articles, letters…).

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Its Carnival Time here in T&T
Enjoy The Music

Lord Nelson - Mih Lover


CARNIVAL PAST - photos © gillena cox [in the 3rd photo the large face is me, a selfie 2018. Looking at jouvert, on the Western Main Road, not far from where i live]

Monday WRites 232

[cloudscape 2019 children's carnival event]

MORNING QUADRILLE
Sky, filled with birdsong, morning swaggers on the waves of sunlight
Her only thoughts are short live remembrances of moonbeams and shadows
How does she let herself be sweet talked into the nuances of forever
Knowing full well that Father Time is measured sequence.
MORNING QUADRILLE © gillena cox 2020


Enjoy FEBRUARY ( a month i always claim as my month): month of unfixed days - sometimes 28 sometimes 29 days, my Birthday tomorrow 11, Valentines Day 14, Carnival Monday and Tuesday 24 & 25. Last day of the Season of Carnival is the 25th here in Trinidad.

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 #232, ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#66: Spring Fever


AND



Quadrille #97 – Filling the Page




REVISIT
10 Feburary 2015
10 Feburary 2017


ENJOY THE MUSIC

Monday WRites 231

OF TWENTY NINE DAYS
With days of unfixed number, yet
There are chocolates candy and cards,
Certain to be bought.

With all the window dressing,
Of hearts and flowers,
Romance is cleverly piqued.

Women can propose marriage - a leap year.
OF TWENTY NINE DAYS © gillena cox 2020


NOTE: Poetry form SEVENLING A new form i have tried writing in today, for the first time.


Welcome FEBRUARY: month of unfixed days - sometimes 28 sometimes 29 days, my Birthday, Valentines Day, Carnival. Last day of the Season of Carnival is the 25th here in Trinidad.

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 #231, ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#65: American Sign Museum




REVISIT
3 Feburary 2018
3 Feburary 2017
3 Feburary 2016


ENJOY THE MUSIC



[photos Carnival Past © gillena cox ]