Wednesday, September 29, 2021

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Impression by Claude Monet from google dot com

TO EVERY SEASON

Bird songs: a raucous time before sunrise

Advent: coloured candles in the wreath lit Sundays before Christmas

Pandemic world: everyone is coaxed into taking the vaccine  

Anticipation does have its season.

© gillena cox 2021

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Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

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COLD BEER

Beer

B b b b beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold 

Best cold cold c o l d

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold beer

Cooooold

Cooooold

Cooooold beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold colder coldest

B b b b beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold Beer!!!

© gillena cox 2021

#Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are in a hot spell right now Hot Spell Watch I

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Prompt

Use the link provided above to find out the #1 hits for every year you’ve celebrated your birthday.  

Choose at least one #1 hit and include it, using the exact wording of the song’s title, in your poem. Be sure to credit the song(s) and artist(s) at the end of your poem. You may or may not choose to share the year of the song….but do share the date!

I used - Rag Mop Ames Brothers#1 in the US 1950

M

I say M-O

M-O-P

M-O-P-P

Mop

M-O-P-P 

Mop Mop Mop Mop


R

I say R-A ...Rest of the lrics here


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ENJOY THE MUSIC:   Parang (Trinidad)

Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

Monday, September 27, 2021

Monday WRites 317

September, we are still in the Rainy Season and its hot hot. The Meteorological Service Division (MSD) is warning of extreme hot conditions for Trinidad and Tobago for the next three to four days. A product of the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service Hot Spell Watch I
 
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 # 317: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.


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The page is white. The page is lined. The page is made for writing on. Pencil, pen, markers will do. 
Oh!  Did i mention the page is lined. Guess i did. Who am i kidding. I have nothing going on up in my head. So the page is white with lines.
I should write something. Or maybe not today. Maybe tomorrow. When the moon wanes in the morning sky. Not a bad start to something.
What will it be? That nice new clear see through ball point. Blue ink. I remember specifically asking for blue ink.  Oh well there's always tomorrow when a poem rears its beautiful head.

blank page 
an ant  makes it's freeway walk -
poetry
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ENJOY THE MUSIC:   Parang (Trinidad)



Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

Thursday, September 23, 2021

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image from google

CORONA COCOON

To dawn i bow in deep respect

The action of hope in effect


 Again engines are rumbling 

The wheels of industry turning

Traffic jams in the streets piling

Return to old can we accept


The new normal landed for sure

Oh it was so quiet before

When we hid in our homes or

Just stayed indoors because we wept


Family and friends swept away

A wave called corona keeps all at bay

Yet  with vaccine and caution may

We creep out of cocoon adept

© gillena cox 2021


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Prompt to write a poem in the Zéjel form

ENJOY THE MUSIC


Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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 image from  google dot com

REMBERING PEACHES AND A VACATION

In the bigness of the Apple city

Walking down some street

Where fruit sellers are

I stop to purchase

Peaches


Seen them in the movies before

Read them in books before

And now here i am in NY city

Buying Peaches


Reaching indoors

I wash them 

And bite into a yummy hidden yellowness

My first taste of 

Peaches


I eat them every day

What's a vacation for

If not to eat

Peaches


When i return home where

Summer cyah done

There will be watermelons

Green variegated thick skins

And sweet crunchy red flesh

I will keep cool then, eating

Watermelon slices.

REMBERING PEACHES AND A VACATION © gillena cox 2021

# "Summer cyah done" - Line from a song by Kes


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Monday, September 20, 2021

Monday WRites 316


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


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Prompt to use any form of "Linger" in a 44-word poem

QUADRILLE - LIGHT
 Before the dawn of creation
I lingered
Hidden in the thought of God

Then he spoke
And i knew 
That time had come

So i appeared
As he  had called 
Me 

Light 
Then shone 
For all to see  

Sun and moon
And 
 Every star
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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image first posted HERE

PAPER WINDMILLS

Amidst the lively music

The costumed revelers

Bright sunshine

And cumulus mounds of cloud


There walks about

The windmill seller

He lacks neither colour

Nor motion


Stuck into a pole

Are little whorls

To dazzle and mesmerize

The little ones onlooking


Look! paper windmills

I want one

I want one

I want one too.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

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dragonfly image from google

 A BEAUTIFUL DRAGONFLY

Who will question your diaphanous wing,

And wonder wither does your flights to fancy be.

Are there bird songs that you too wish to sing?

Will the dawn wait a  lazy sun to be.

As day lights azure clearest of blue sky,

Mocks such clear patterns mirrored through thine,

A cathedral of stain glass windows sigh,

Weight of suffering impassioned  to wine.

Oh stay! that I might ask questions of you,

For truly you distance by so quickly,

Zipping by from air anywhere  perched to,

Allow passersby to watch lovingly.

You know beauty lies in those admiring eyes.

You know yourself for their contentment lies.

  A BEAUTIFUL DRAGONFLY© gillena cox 2021

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Monday, September 13, 2021

Monday WRites 315


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


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Prompt: to use the line
"So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm." 
from William Blake’s poem


AGAIN WITH THE COVID PRECAUTIONS
Watch your distance. Mask up. Wash hands. Sanitize. Keep your surfaces at home clean. Wash your fruit and veggies before storing.
Take the vaccines. There are lots to choose from. 
This might all sound very boring, but, better a boring one than no life at all.
Stay at home and medicate, if you feel sick. Don't mix in public.
So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
 © gillena cox 2021


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Thursday, September 9, 2021

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[Image from Google]

TEMPLE OF HEALING
We wander through hot desserts of sands gold,
No one dares turn dust into loaves of bread,
Picking up instead nuggets of goods sold;
Pfizer, Sinopharm, such stones that are read,
In wastelands seen of dread dungeons dark.
Repeat and be saved; the shamans heads shake,
For light overhead, awaits, broken spark.
Lips quiver in wisdom, walls roll and quake.
Oracle has spoken for our sake.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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Dragon from Pinterest
Yesterday i posted Shudder - A fold linking it to dVerse and as quickly as today i am mining it with some new punctuations, line breaks and an extension of the storyline, and adding it to one of my series.

TALES OF A DRAGON UNSEEN - MAKING MYTHS [9] 
"Mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong."
She whispered to Erke, edging up even closer.
His sword sheathed, he dare not prolong
this agony of not knowing, what monster breathed
ahead. "Mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong,"
he agreed with Gurtha, quickening his stride.
Just then, in the distance, the booming of a gong.
They stood frozen, holding breaths an eternity.
Quickly a shudder wove through the forest, a throng
of sensation. Forever cannot be drawn in a circle.
"Shh! mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong."

The dragon shimmied its way back into the sea.
Silvery scales wagon-wheeling through the vast
wetness. Only to Neptune's trident he chose to flee.
Of loud percussions had he, no taste of entertainment.
So dragon prince, shimmied its way back into the sea.
Then the ripple of leaves against a whistling wind,
and Holy monks in a temple, tired too of duty,
Was now, all that remained of a harrowing night.
Till the next season of moon birthing, maybe,
Erke and Gurtha would have have to wait their adventure.
For the dragon shimmied its way, back into the sea.
TALES OF A DRAGON UNSEEN - A DOUBLE FOLD © gillena cox 2021

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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image 'Banana Fronds' first posted HERE

Mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong
She whispered to  Erke edging up even closer
His sword sheathed he dare not  prolong
This agony of  not knowing what monster breathed
Ahead, mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong,
He agreed with Gurtha, quickening his stride.
Just then, in the distance, the booming of a gong.
They stood frozen, holding  breaths an eternity.
Quickly a shudder wove through the  forest,  a throng
Of sensation; forever cannot be drawn in a circle.
Shh mayhaps we be reading the shadows wrong.
SHUDDER - A FOLD© gillena cox 2021

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I chose from the list given, the sentence  to compose my poem:
 “Perhaps we are reading the shadows wrong; forever cannot draw a circle.” – Winter Moon ~ Part Three: Petals of the Sun

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Monday, September 6, 2021

Monday WRites 314

 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 # 314: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.
Ah September and the weather here in T&T brings stormy days. With roofs blown off, flash flooding and trees falling. Yet we cling to hope and resolve. I have chosen yellow as the colour representing hope in my post today.

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Quadrille - groovy
Let me bring you my yellow groovy,
Better than any boring movie.
Lets dance baby in yellow sunshine,
Today is special to moo, cows, and moonshine. 
And with silver linings at dawn,
We shall wrap ourselves warm. 
This poem writes itself,
  A magical  elf.
Quadrille - groovy © gillena cox 2021


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Thursday, September 2, 2021

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image Tale of The Nine Tail Fox
Gumihos, or the nine tailed foxes are mythical creatures commonly heard around East Asia. Lee Yeon is a powerful Gumiho and former mountain deity who has lived over a thousand years. The drama kicks off with his search for the reincarnation of his one true love Nam Jiah, who was separated from him due to possession by a deathly plague, metaphorical for the evils in the world. As the plot thickens, we find shades of love and sacrifice as Yeon sets out to battle his nemesis, save Jiah and in turn protect Seoul from dwindling.
#courtesy dVerse

KASA - CHOICES

He sees her that nine tale fox

She sees him her wannabe protector


Him alone she desires

Will he be forever hers


She will use her cunning ways

To achieve her whatevers


He will think before he acts

Family before passion


His first kiss seals a contract

To a wife wise and loyal


Not for him the nine tail fox

With her guile and wayward airs

KASA - CHOICES © gillena cox 2021

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