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Today's mosiac 'Book Club 12th Anniversary Get Together 2022 😊  photos taken by me, i am not in the photo. ..forgot to take a selfie .

Thursday 23rd was the 12th anniversary celebration of  my book club. After so long not being together it was great to be back...to share a toast, look at our history video and sit with snack plates on our laps😊

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” [George R.R. Martin]

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” [Dr. Seuss]

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” [Benjamin Franklin]

 Welcome to Monday WRites # 355

June, and the rains are here, Goodbye month of June.

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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Mosaic Monday #182: Bluebells, Tulips, Wisteria - oh my!

To read is to travel through pages

Discover wonderlands and winter worlds

Leaving a sunny Caribbean in stages

Tip toe or walk through place or time 

Wend and wade you travel through pages

Long long ago or far far into the future

Choose your pace breaking all cages

The universe gets smaller fitted to eye span

You can sing though the storm rages

A cup of tea will soothes your aches

And wonderings as you travel through pages

THROUGH PAGES © gillena cox 2022

#to construct The Fold Poem HERE

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Today's mosiac 'A Book Club Outing' [year 2011]

“A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.” [Paulo Coelho]

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“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.” [Rumi]

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 Welcome to Monday WRites # 354

June, and the rains are here. A Happy month of June to all.

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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Mosaic Monday #181: A Bigger Boat

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 Haibun Monday 6-20-22: Solstice

Rainy season; there is the thunder. the lightning. the flooding. The overcast clouds eventually give way to brighter skies.

Some mornings a red sky will morph into grey into mild blue. Activity never ceasing always wonderous. Who can control the weather.

rainbow fading -

awesome enough to make me

stand still and watch

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“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain” - Roy Batty, Blade Runner

What the rain does

It washes sky

Lashes leaves at the nodes

Leaving like tears drops on blades

What the rain does

Is empty of clouds

Groaning in thunder

Sparking in lightning

What the rain does

Is tug at the heartstrings

Knowing that the flood

Of tears will not heal only soothe

But life continues

To the auger of the rains

Even if it be forty day or nights

When a sprig in a beak hails

A new form

Then all the moments

Will be lost in time, 

Like tears in rain

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Poetics: words of departure

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Today's mosaic - Highlighting Shadows [photos from my archive, all photos taken in St James Trinidad]

If you don't have any shadows 

You're not in the light

--Lady Gaga

If you face the light

Shadows will always be 

behind you

-- Sukant Ratnakar

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 353

June, and the rains are here. A Happy month of June to all.

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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Mosaic Monday #180: Sweat, Tears or the Sea

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Quadrille #154: Casting a Poetic Spell

ALL EXCEPT SHE

Ready for the spelling bee

Her wings stuck tight

Her eyes bright

Her mind clear

Oh Dear

Where can her words be

Her team mates not nervous

They need be verbous

The contest starts now

All except...

Oh where 

Oh where

Can she be

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Listen to a voiced version of 'Star of the Morning'

You can Read 'Star of the Morning' -- first posted HERE

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Open Link Night #318, June Live Edition

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[Peder Severin Krøyer, Hip, Hip, Hurrah courtesy dVerse]

 BIRTHDAYS THAT WAY

Hip hip hurrah, the way birthdays appear

There again and again

Repeatedly like a cheer

Sometimes boisterous some times tame

Come raise a glass,  the way birthdays appear

Sneaking in with face lines

And bodies shaped like pear

With streamers and buntings

And friends ever so dear

To eat cake in slices

Circles around the sun, the way birthdays appear 

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Sun, Sand, Storms, and Celebrations: Summer Ekphrastic

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[Today's mosiac - Fruit on the table]

 © gillena cox 2022

A Jigzone puzzle to fit online (6 pieces)

 

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 352

June, and the rains are here. A Happy month of June to all.

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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