Monday WRites 295

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.Mosaic 1 and 2 are photos taken this morning while exercising in my back yard

You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

Welcome to Monday WRites #295: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

#128: Montana Spring

AND

Haibun Monday 4-26-21: The Present Moment
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Another pandemic daybreak. Through the opened door, coolness of a sunrising morning in flushed pink tinged sky. Perfect temperature for back yard exercising. The heaviness of nights cover fading in a distant bird call to morning light. Stillness of the banana fronds obvious in the early halflight. One pigeon without its coo swoops in to perch on the electric wire, sitting there just watching.
a lingering dawn -stretching to the wakeup callof diligent birds

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
26 April 2018
...alone in my back yard
...ever present

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Yellow Art first posted at Lunch Break

April and the colour yellow sings her loudest

Poui beckon with their come hither blossoms 

Easter breezes for surely smile the heartiest 

Big hats; wide and mad, and gaudily displayed

Trumpets the name April, yellow sings her loudest 

Baby chicks fluffy and cute so tenderly chirp 

Into hearts of those admiring children fastest 

And the sweet faces of bunnies, ears twitching 

Tails bobbed to pompom style, the fanciest 

Will nibble at your finger if you try to feed them 

Tis the month of April, yellow sings her loudest.

AN APRIL FOLD © gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
21 April 2018
21 April 2016
21 April 2015

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Monday WRites 294

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Cassia tree(large) Cashew, Immortelle, Coconut (top. middle. bottom photos). In today's mosaic, some photos from my archives. Each one was taken while on Retreat, those years i sang with the senior choir at church.  

near the cashew tree

on a picnic bench

busy ants

haiku year 2008 © gillena cox 

You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

Welcome to Monday WRites #294: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

#127: Going to the Moon (Road trip Part 8)

AND

Quadrille #126– Come “bother” up a poem
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Quadrille - Bother

I shudder at the thought

why bother to announce

such a disaster, the old woman lost her shoe?

and there's leftover meatloaf to  share ?

with the governor whose coming over to tea ?

paper cups should suffice ,

we'll gather in the meadow,  keeping distance safe.

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
19 April 2018
19 April 2017
...nary a bother

795

Striking chords slice grey dawn

Night falls back, with morning exposed

Pandemic day awakened bows to a yawn

Prayer thoughts stain the swiping blade

Feathered heralds slice grey dawn

Time duly apportioned  to historical eras 

Ponder the goal sky! grey to azure sworn

For whistles and songs  choir your task

This is the dance of daybreak drawn

By a master swordsman besting his game

Kiskadee and Mockingbird slice grey dawn

© gillena cox 2021

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Weekly Scribblings #65: Bird is the Word

REVISIT
14 April 2018
14 April 2015
bird flown

This post is edited to link to Dverse google meet

Open Link #290 – LIVE Edition

Monday WRites 293

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Mosaic Monday 

#126: Going to the Moon (Road trip Part 8)

AND

proseMeet me where the sidewalk ends
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THOSE OUTRAGEOUS HATSThe road ends here, there is a hole in the mud a few paces away. Don't be too serious about the pavement ending. Don't overthink it. If you are a dreamer come in for the curious falling. You might trample over a few rabbits scurrying out their warren, after eggs, the Season of Easter being all of this and more.
The Red Queen? Oh no, she will not be showing her face here. She has had enough of that Alice girl, with all of her growing and shrinking; her eating and drinking.
Ah, but The Hatter, for sure he will made an appearance, to quell the ostentations of those big-hat ladies, wearing what they insist on calling Easter Bonnets, but you and I know, they are outrageously anything else but a bonnet. He will be there to judge and prize the merriest or the maddest.

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
12April 2018
Easter in T&T
...hard hats

Monday WRites 292

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A Happy and Blessed Easter to all

.

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Mosaic Monday 

#125: At a snail's pace

AND

Quadrille #125In Praise of The Grape
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QUADRILLE: WINE

Grape seed oil

I grab a bottle

Cheddar blocks

in plastic wrap

Into the trolley

A trolley

 in the middle of the lane

Turn around or wait

Smile behind my mask

Nod and move on 

A bottle of wine

Wheeling to the cashier now.

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
5 April 2018
5 April 2015
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