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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REVISIT

13 December 2017
13 December 2015
a haibun styled reading

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No linky today linky will be back next week☺

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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

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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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CLEAR VIEW  a sevenling

If i am your queen

And indeed you my king

let us be the dance

Watch that scene

Over exclamations of wonder

See us a  vista clear

I am by your side

CLEAR VIEW  © gillena cox 2021

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 HAPPY ADVENT

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This one’s for you, Bjorn!

Challenge: to write a poem using one line from Dancing Queen by Abba

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REVISIT
30 November 2017
30 November 2016.
ONE QUEEN BEE

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Monday WRites 327

Today's mosaic is titled 'Birthday Girl' The birthday girl is Yanda, my daughter. (All protocols observed) All vaccinated, a tiny group of family and friends (all girls party) went to the safe zone  'A Cup of Joe' in Woodbrook on the eve of her birthday to celebrate her turning 50.  That left her, alone time on, her actual birthday the 28th to relax and spend the day reading a book.

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Saying goodbye to month of November  and thanks for all the blessings. 

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).

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 HAPPY ADVENT

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MM #157: Harlow Carr Garden

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 Quadrille #141: Heady is the Poem That Wears the Crown 

Challenge: to write a quadrille using any form of the word Crown

SAVIOUR AND KING

An earthly crown to pierce his head;

And he, heavenly crowned, to rule

For ever and ever over all, 

That has been created.

Ergo the manger awaited his coming;

Where three kings, already in crowns,

Paid homage, bearing gifts of 

Gold, frankincense and myrrh.

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
29 November 2017
29 November 2016.
29 November 2020

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A crop of the canvas 'De Meeting'  by LeRoy Clarke

DINE OUT AGAIN -  an ekphrastic

Bring to the table your knives and forks

Elbows and fingers

Your green shoes with the platform heels

Clop clop into the dining area

Vaccinated patrons only

This is a safe zone

We feast on sumptuous morsels of

Macaroni pie and trini gossip

Little did we know that staying at home

Could be world mandated

We viewed the paintings of Picasso

Lets steal glances of Clarke

Now here comes dessert

Sweetbread and sorrel

Christmas around the corner

See the angel on the tree top?

DINE OUT AGAIN   © gillena cox 2021

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Open Link Night #305

REVISIT
25 November 2019
25 November 2016
25 November 2015

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Monday WRites 326

 Today's Mosaic - Sorrel 2021. Sorrel is a traditional Christmas drink here in Trinidad and Tobago

About sorrel and my sorrel recipe HERE 

My Sorrel Recipe
3 lbs Sorrel
2 litres Water
3 cups Sugar
3 inch twist of Orange peel
15 grains of Clove
stick of Cinnamon
1 cup Rum (optional)
Pull calyx off seed pods, wash the Sorrel calyx. Put in a large pot. Add Spices and one cup of Sugar.
Add 2 liters or enough water to cover the amount of sorrel in the pot. Boil for about fifteen minutes.
Let cool, strain the coloured liquid into a large container. Add the remaining 2 cups of sugar or sweeten to taste. Add rum (optional). Bottle and Refrigerate.
 © gillena cox 2021

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Happy  month of November to all visiting. 

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

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MM #156: Simple Pleasures - Home and Abroad

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Haibun Monday 11/22/21: Giving Thanks

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THANKS GIVEN

There is so much to be annoyed about, we remember the hurts so well. Hurts are not wild game that one goes a hunting. More like the unpredictable weather patterns. Some just come storming in. Wetting the plants, the porch, the window curtains. Snatching a bit of roof in rage. No one not even the meteorologist expected that. Well hurt is like that sometimes.

On the other side of the coin, there is the unexpected joys. Did i see that coming? Oh  but there is still goodness in the world. Like the drizzle cooling the parched earth. The wildflower pops up which no one ever planted. With its unique colour tones, petal count. stem lengths. And we pause in contemplative gratitude. And Sometimes thank you pops up in a smile not spoken.

sit here he says

pulling the chair away

from the table

 THANKS GIVEN © gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
22 November 2017
22 November 2015.
thanks giving blossoms 2017

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KITCHEN MAYHEM

so insensitive!
way into the night bang blang
falling pots and pans, really?
please!!! cook in the daytime;
keep the sleep-peace when shadows fall.
KITCHEN MAYHEM © gillena cox 2021

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Poetry Form: The Wayra

Challenged to write:  A Wayra 

Additional challenge: To incorporate onomatopoeia in your wayra poem.

Elements of the Wayra are:

1.a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.

2.syllabic, 5-7-7-6-8

3.unrhymed.

REVISIT 

19 Nov 2018

kis ka dee 

clack clack

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