Monday, June 8, 2020

Monday WRites 249


[Another June Jumble - 'Yellow Center of Today': Plumeria, Dessert Rose, Pinwheel Jasmine all from my garden today]

Welcome June and here in Trinidad and Tobago, The Wet Season.
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #249: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧


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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#83: Emerging (Part 2)


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Prosery Monday: Different Directions
Asked to write using a line from
'An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire' By Gwendolyn Brooks
a piece of flash fiction of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line.
We go in different directions down the imperturbable street.

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CORONA'S BOX
It was time for the opening. They emptied the contents of crowned shaped dust all over the surface of planet earth.

Mornings became quiet now except for the whistling and chirping birds letting all and sundry know that the new day had merged from night to dawn to morning. This was The New Eerie Time.

The Lords Obedient all proclaimed throughout the planet: there will be no church going, no beach going, no school going, no hugging, no assembling, no kissing, no partying. This is the Era of The New Lord No.

He he he He he he; a sinister low laughter was heard by some.

"Close the restuarants! Close the barbers and hairdressers! Yes you can wear face masks!" "Yes meh Lord they answered" And so we go in different directions down the imperturbable street. But flowers still bloomed in earth's soil.
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
8 June 2015

STAY SAFE

36 comments:

  1. Hello Gillena, there is again a wonderful Collage of blooms. Thank you for sharing. Have a good week.

    Stay healthy and well.

    Happy MosaicMonday

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  2. I love the Plumera and have a ring with those flowers. I wonder if they would grow here! Happy Mosaic Monday!

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  3. Lovely collage! To be able to grow these lovely flowers in your garden is wonderful. Thank you for sharing!

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  4. Happy you dropped by Cathy

    Much💖love

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  5. The story's kind of creepy, in a good way. I like the direction in which you took the prosery prompt.

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  6. Thanns for your appreciation Jenna

    Much💖love

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  7. I like the description of our times as the "Era of The New Lord No".

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    1. 😊thanks for dropping by Frank

      Much💖love

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  8. Era of the New Lord No is not where I want to be!

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    1. Thanks for dropping by Dale 😊

      Much💖love

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  9. There are some things the overlords cannot put an end to.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Lili

      Much💖love

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  10. Gillena - you captured our new reality with your terrific prose. Well done! And yes, the flowers keep blooming. Thanks for linking to Mosaic Monday!

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Angie

      Much💖love

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  11. You’ve certainly captured the time of Corona, Gillena, and made It into a futuristic dystopia. was time for the opening. I especially like ‘Mornings became quiet now except for the whistling and chirping birds’. From now on I shall think of 2020 as ‘The New Eerie Time’.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Kim

      Much💖lovee

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  12. ...Gillena, thanks for the sunny glimpse of your garden, take care of yourself!

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  13. Happy you dropped by Tom

    Much💖love

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  14. The birds seem to be much more mindful of the planet than the people.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Kerfe

      Much💖love

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  15. Your collage today is simple yet beautiful, lovely colours. Have a wonderful week, stay safe.

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  16. Happy you dropped by Linda

    Much💖love

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  17. It is an eerie time, but at least there are birds and flowers!

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    1. Indeed Merril. Happy you dropped by

      Much💖love

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  18. I have never seen the flowers quite as well as when I have to abstain from all the rest.

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    1. Yes indeed. Thanks for dropping by Björn

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  19. Your first stanza and the last line of your piece warms up my being, Gillena. Thank you. So does imagining the scent of plumeria and jasmine. I don't know how desert rose smells. It's time for me to plant some fragrant scents in the yard. Take care, Gillena. :-)

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Susieee

      Much💖love

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  20. Love the ending on this, and of course, your flowers!

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  21. What some mean for evil God will use for good.

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  22. Yes indeed. Thanks for dropping by Dawn

    Much💖love

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