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NOW voiced by gillena cox

The empty street leads to the mountain

Where clouds sit upon

Looking down at us lowly creatures

In our houses

Hiding away from pandemic viruses

Once upon a time 

We flooded the beach sands with our footsteps

Running

Laughing

Playing

Like children just discovering what joy is

And today

The silence wraps us in warm hugs

The kind we want to shrug off

But we know 

They are the best we should have NOW.

NOW © gillena cox 2021

PROCESS NOTE

This was a hard challenge for me. I voiced my poem on my phone but could not upload it. Then i tried voicing again directly to the post but it was not accepted so i had to go to my  laptop and  tried to up load the voiced recording to sound cloud only to be more confused and frustrated. I could only get it uploaded if i included it making it into a video. Only then it could be accepted to the post

Hope  you enjoy this attempt

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Poetics: Oral Poetry

REVISIT
31 August 2021
31 August 2017
31 August 2015

Happy 59th Anniversary of Independence to us here in T&T

even though our beaches are still in lockdown, we are still observing curfew hours,

we are vaccinating and looking forward to better days

Monday WRites 313

Tomorrow August 31st we here in Trinidad and Tobago will celebrate the 59th Anniversary of Our Independence. 

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 # 313: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday #145: July Jumble

AND

 

Haibun Monday 8-30-21: Back to school

Today, that is,  2021, some will still have to stay at home. Some will will be taxied. Some ride the mini buses. Some will be chauffeured by dad or mom or other such caregivers. All should be Pfizer vaccinated. Back to school in the new normal era.

the call to donate -

bagging notebooks, pens, pencils

back to school drive 

Those staying at home will have to have the uniforms cleaned and fitted(just as if they were entering the school building through the main gate) and, the lap tops and tablets working in tip top shape.

Down memory lane takes me personally to a time when copy books were brown papered. Washecongs were whitened. Socks were paired left/right and ties, yes ties pressed and ready.

that smell of new books -

what house colour will i wear

who will be prefect

 Haibun - Back To School © gillena cox 2021

Back Story

#Washecongs: what we now call sneakers. Back then, they were white and had to be scrubbed clean and a white liquid polish applied.

#At high school, both the boys and as well  the girls wore ties.

#My high school alumni  organised a back to school hamper drive, as an event to assist students who would need help due to pandemic circumstances.

REVIST
31 August 2020
30 August 2018
31 August 2017

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GOD BLESS OUR NATION: sung by Mavis John

830

 

well girl, here we are

In our seventies, not too bad so far;

bird song of mornings,

and sunset evenings;

tis the way this life must go,

gratefulness be our mojo;

i and i, you know what they say,

best buds, all the way...

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT

26 August 2015

I'll document today

chapel of thanks

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To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

Hamlet soliloquy, spoken by Hamlet, act 3, scene 1

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616

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Monday WRites 312

Red Ixora

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 # 312: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

Mosaic Monday # 144: Stonehenge Montana Style 

AND

 

Quadrille #134: We {heart} poems

Heartily i will laugh at tomorrow 

Sweetheart here is my treasure 

For tomorrow reoccurs 

Like a nose growing longer 

When will i see you dear heart

Tomorrow and a day 

Wistfully and heartfully i give 

My words to you 

A poem penned  just for you 

MY TREASURE © gillena cox 2021

REVIST
This heart...
between heart beats...
Maybe A Poem Sweetheart

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Monday WRites 311

 From my 2015 Archives Blue Plumbagos

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 # 311: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

Mosaic Monday # 143: Up Up And Away 

AND

 

Prosey - Clouds

PROVIDENCE

Who am i to question morning sunlight creeping in on a silvery wand of another day's dawning?

And what am i doing dousing the dew on the wildflowers with wet awestruck gasps?

Later, as the azure angels wring out

their weather won raindrops, to tee shirts waving in slight breezes from wooden clothes pin clips

I sigh, waiting for rainbow colors to arc across and i make a wish for today's providence to bless us all.

But these clouds are clearly foreign, such an exotic clutter against the blue cloth of the sky, i muse.

PROVIDENCE© gillena cox 2021

REVIST
cloud power
morning clouds
clouds below me

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Monday WRites 310

 Cherries Ripening

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 #310: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

Mosaic Monday #142:A Slice of Paradise  

AND

 

Monday Quadrille - Stand

STAND : A Quadrille

Perfect handstands are expected

Of you doyennes advanced enough

At yoga class

Blue skies morph into monsters

Noisy and charcoal 

On  stormy days    

Who wants to go to a hell

If there's a heaven sublime

Waiting and rewarding   

Kindness 

always stands 

on tired legs

© gillena cox 2021

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 REVISIT

9 August 2016
stand up basket
standand gape

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gillena cox photo: In my garden

Monday WRites 309

Today's Mosaic: A Look Back To July As We Move Forward In August

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Since 1985, in Trinidad and Tobago, August 1st has been observed as Emancipation Day: a public holiday to celebrate  the abolishment of slavery

     

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 #309: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday 

Mosaic Monday #141: Short and Sweet

AND

 

Haibun Monday - August 

August in T&T, begins with celebration of freedom; freedom from the chains of chattel awareness, freedom to claim the dignity and status of all mankind - human.

With drum songs and dancing feet, flambeau and Canboulay flames lighting the paths of future days.

Fabrics with 

afro-centric accents

; folded, sewn, sculpted, drape and adore human bodies. 

A public festival of pre Covid19 eras halts today to the tune of Lockdown season and curfew hours. The feasting and festivity is tamed to family stay home  numbers.

a bee gathers

breakfast from the ixora 

yellow as sunshine

Days progress to weeks of August. Heads cool to swell with pride of  nationhood; as Trinidad and Tobago ends August on the note of Happy Independence. 

night sky 

 booms  with of colours

fireworks

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT

Emancipation Day 2016
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