Monday WRites 330

Today's mosaic Jesse Tree days 11 -17. Symbols: scepter, sun, wolf & lamb, whale, lion, Bethlehem, praying hands

Again we await,

a Divine miracle

to Vision the love of God:

ForEver given, unconditionally;

of soN, andsaviour, Jesus

given To be our joy

[page 36 of Pink Crush © gillena cox 2011]

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Pink Crush is dedicated to: my daughter Yanda and son Khama

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Hello December glad you are here with us, AND we are in the fourth week of Advent

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

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 HAPPY ADVENT

tis my favourite liturgical season 😊

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Mosaic Monday #160: Getting "Plastered"

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REVISIT

MW 274 Season of Advent 2020
MW 183 Sunday at the mall 2018
MW 223 Season of Advent 2019

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MERRY CHRISTMAS BACKDROP

World lockdown days;

We got to that state,

Kenopsia:

The paved road stretched out,

Before in a distance of maybe,

One person along the way,

For buildings and buildings ahead.

And slam bang !

It happened here,

After days of annual and usual,

Carnival frolic and bacchanalia;

Aftergloom:

Sharp poignant and instructing.

And here we are today;

A new normal of

Openings vaccinatings new strains like Omicron,

Still teaching us lessons along the way,

Heartspur:

To the tune of Merry Christmas.

© gillena cox 2021

Notes:

Aftergloom: the pang of loneliness you feel the day after an intensely social event, as the glow of voices and laughter fades into a somber quiet.

Heartspur: an unexpected surge of emotion in response to a seemingly innocuous trigger- the distinctive squeal of a rusty fence, a key change in an old pop song, the hint of a certain perfume- which feels all the more intense because you can’t quite pin it down

Kenopsia: the atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

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Poetics: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 

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REVISIT
sweet sorrow 2016
sorrow salts the dust 2015
sorrow with 2016

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Monday WRites 329

Today's mosaic - Jesse Tree days 10 -16. Symbols: coat, tablets, rope, shepherds crook, crown, temple, fire

Hello December glad you are here with us, AND we are in the third week of Advent

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

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 HAPPY ADVENT

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Mosaic Monday #159: Walking in Style

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Quadrille #142 

to write the '44 word poem' using any form of the word tinsel

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS LORE

Adorned the Christmas tree

Tinseled and sparkly

Awaits the oohs and aaws

A Christmas morning cause

Adorned the Christmas tree

Decked so magically she

Is ready for the night before

The eve like days of yore 

To dance for Santa

A jolly little rhumba

© gillena cox 2021

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tinsel and baubles -

the sound of paper tearing

between giggles

And so it is, that rainy morning, the spidery Anansi, awakes to eight arms full of his two anansi children, tugging at him from every direction; pleading with him to come downstairs, to open a gift under the Christmas tree.[excerpt from Anansi An Unusual Experience by Gillena Cox]

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13 December 2017
13 December 2015
a haibun styled reading

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LISTEN TO "COLOURS"

I did not attend the live open link yesterday.

Please enjoy a voiced reading of Colours. The poem was first posted 

HERE

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Open Link Night #305 December Live Edition

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REVISIT
10 December2019
10 December 2018
COLOURS 2015

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CITY LIGHTHOUSE

She doesn't mind the smoke

She doesn't mind the smog

She doesn't mind the wind and the rain

She stands tall 

And when tired leans slightly

So only an architect will see

Though now the dump is nearby

Once upon a time there were kapok

Where douens danced

Among Amerindian fests

Her eyes focus on the hills today

From whence steelpan came

For the seas are calm now-a-days

CITY LIGHTHOUSE © gillena cox 2021

Port of Spain Lighthouse...image from google

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Poetics : Passions Stamped on Lifeless Things

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REVISIT
Red House 2020
Royal Botanical Gardens
National Museum And Art Gallery 2018

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Monday WRites 328

Today's mosaic Jesse Tree days 1-9. Symbols: stump, tower, earth, apple, ark, camel, starry sky, ram, Ladder,

 Hello December glad you are here with us

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

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 HAPPY ADVENT

tis my favourite liturgical season 😊

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Mosaic Monday #158: Count Your Blessings

AND

dVerse — Prosery Monday — Lost/Found/Lost Children

Challenge: to choose a line from  “When We Sing of Might,” by Kimberly Blaeser.

I dress in their stories patterned and purple as night. And use it in a short prose

HO HO HO AND SMILES

They venture into the woodlands looking for elves when they should be chasing candy canes and bright

nosed reindeers

How can the darkness not choose to sleep, baring the events of  Divali,  Hanukah, comet C2021 and Christmas

Ho ho ho the red suits keep popping up from mall to mall. The list of excuses keep getting longer and longer.

"Why were you naughty? Again tell me" I dress in their stories patterned and purple as night. And, i keep my factory elves busy till Christmas eve night.

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
6 December 2017
2015 purple ever
2020 purple shamrock

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