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 The word “advent” is derived from the Latin word “adventus”, which means “coming” – which refers to the coming of Christ.

The advent wreath;  an evergreen wreath with four candles, sometimes with a fifth, white candle in the center. 

Some Advent wreaths include a fifth, Christ candle which is lit on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day

The four candles of Advent represent the four Sundays of Advent, and they respectively symbolize hope, peace, joy, and love.

The third candle is pink and symbolizes joy. It is called the “Shepard's Candle,” and is pink because rose is a liturgical color for joy.

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Poetry form: Rhyming recipe

Prompt:  to write a rhyming recipe

Sorrel is a traditional Christmas drink here in Trinidad $Tobago 🇹🇹

My Sorrel Recipe

The sorrel in lbs weigh;

The water in litres may,

Long for the added sugar in cups.

Twist of orange peel, grains of clove, stick of cinnamon will cause no mix-ups,

And Rum is (optional) measured in cups.

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 Happy HOLIDAYS 

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this image was first posted at my blog LUNCH BREAK

Did you see the reindeer in the far right  bottom corner? 😊

 Living in the Caribbean, a hot area, there is no winter or snow.

Yet our liturgical expressions contain all the coldness of winter that traditionally have been ascribed to Christmas.

And those who have never heard of Santa and his reindeers; must be from another planet

We as children first and as adults have only to imagine and accept.it all.

That's not so bad even, for here longing sets in, and in the end many of us travel to fulfill our dreams.

[Well maybe not to the North Pole though😊]

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 Let It Snow

Her mummy read the story to her.

She listened wrapped in the wonder of snow.

It sounded like so much fun.

Oh yes! she wanted to go on vacation. 

To spend Christmas 

With her cousins in America.

[I do hope it snows, said gramma.]

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my granddaughter Zuri; on vacation wth her mummy, at her cousins in America Year 2016

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Quadrille #191 – Let it snow

Prompt 

Write a quadrille using the word or som form of it 

snow

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Starless Night Ponder

Night performs her haunting echoes

She is neither shy nor unwilling

Yet she is holding back her shine

There are no stars out tonight

Not even a Bethlehem guiding light

Who can fathom the depths of desire

When not even a blink from heaven 

Strays into the thought of face

 Looking upward hoping to hear of 

Stars watching lowly humans below

Why is life moaning under a weight

Of contours, of borders, of delineations?

Who will spill a jar of watercolour

Wet on wet without care of spaces

Only shapes misting on smudgy

Areas to suffice

© gillena cox 2023

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Without Words

Challenge today: is to choose a piece of instrumental music (no songs,

 but I am happy for you to choose a piece of jazz or instrumental rock if you don’t

 like classical music) that speaks to you, and write a poem either about the piece,

 including information about its composer and content, 

or whatever it conjures in your head. 

If possible, add a link to the piece of music. 

Here is a selection of poems about music:

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 The Magic of My First Snow

Where was i? I was at my sister's home. I had flown across oceans so at that time,  I was on vacation in New York. So back then, I was where i am.

When the snow began, she called me to the door. The door was slightly ajar. And there it was. My very first time, my very first snowflakes

For me this was oh so amazing. I stood at the doorway spellbound.

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Prosery: Winter is coming

Prompt 

Today we are writing prose using the lines

“I was where I am

When the snow began”

From “The Dead of Winter” by Samuel Menashe

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 Tropical mockingbird from google

rosary beads rolling

saying good morning

a tropical mocking bird 

Jesus proclaims

the kingdom of God

third luminous mystery

morning cleared

to silverlined clouds

another dawn

has sketched her

ultimate beginnings

coolnes of a gentle zephyr

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My daughter is 52 today. Happy Birthday to Yanda Cox

 For my Daughter

for this daughter mine

every day thanks is given

it was worth the wait

after nine months fattening

curious to see

will her smile be like mine or

will she have her own

after fifty plus years she

has grown so lovely

a happy birthday to her

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Sketching a Day

On the drawing board, dawn sketches it's smoky sky and twittering birds.

I often wonder how do they know the time for twittering.

They serve me well nature's alarm clock.

Time to stretch,

To give thanks for another day,

To send out a greeting.

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Prompt: to write a poem of any style that is exactly 44 words, not including the title. Your quadrille must contain one given word or a form of the word...SKETCH

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BYE BYE! NOVEMBER

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Detail from Portrait of Marie-Thérèse, Princesse de Lamballe, painted by Anton Hickel, 1788. (Liechtenstein Princely Collections) found at google

 22nd November 2023

Dear Yesterday

Please forgive me. I seem to have slipped into a crevice of time, to hide like an old fossil waiting for centuries to pass, knowing the wisdom of discovery is destined like the morning star.

What can i say i tend to be scatter-brained on those day when i deceide to let go of the ties of routine and become irregular like the fingers of climate change. Stoking fires in rainforests and flooding autumns with winter floes.

What delicious concoctions did the hostess shake up. Was there liquor at the dVerse bar to add to our fruit and vegetable palates. 

Who came in first offering words to excite, enhance, or provoke the evening (or as time zones would have it the morning). Ah, here i am a dated day late, (but really only hours away) time zones again.

Please accept these few sentences, filled with the aplomb of your understanding that late too should be read with the joy in community and responding.

 Your friend in poetry

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Poetics:For the love of letters

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And

OpenLinkNight #351

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I bought sorrel last week. So here's my 2023 sorrel mosaic.

Cutting Sorrel

Being an empty-nester i do not make a fuss about Christmas anymore. But i do hold on to that one tradition of making sorrel. 

I have been giving my granddaughter for the past few years, a bottle of sorrel, since she is old enough to drink it and like it. She is 11 this year. 

And outside of the fact of being an empty nester, my adult daughter and son are  peculiar eaters. No meat, peculiar about which carbs they intake etc etc. So there you have it. Christmas for me now is about the music, church, sorrel, and online poetry friends.

thankful for memories 

toys and children's loud voices - 

cutting sorrel

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 My sorrel recipe HERE

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Old Ideas About Avacado

I leave my avocado to ripe,

Wrapped in old newspaper;

Who does that?

I do!

Why?  i have no idea;

Its just the way i saw things done,

And i continue to do it too.

I'll then slice it up

Add lime to keep it yellow

Then mash it on to my toast

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Holy Guacamole!🥑

prompt for today (it doesn’t cost extra!) is as follows: write a poem (probably about guacamole, maybe?) using a mixture of at least four of the following key words: avocado, bunch, chop, cilantro, coriander, cumin, finely, fork, jalapeño, kosher, lime, mash, onion, pepper, raw, red, ripe, salt, seeds, serrano, shell, smoky, spice, squeeze, tomato, white, yellow. Everything else is up to you!

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Poetic Moon

Should all the adjectives be

As comely as me?

Describing, prescribing quality

No even asked for necessarily 

Who howls at a round moon

If not a wolfish banter too soon

Released to a sultry night

Or even might 

There be a dreamer coining words

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Bright Moon

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Chains

chai in his hat 

sic  

ha 

cha cha cha

sin as an

aha

ha

chins a sac 

inch inch inch

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Visa Card

My smile is as broad as it is wide,

Its perfect and its genuine,

'Somewhere in the future'

 The signpost reads.

All my books are in every bookstore,

And kids say look mum

I want this one;

Mum smiles too, as she reaches for her visa card.

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dVerse Poetics — Time Machine Bucket List: TMBL with Me

Option 1: Take a few minutes to create your own Time Machine Bucket List. Try to come up with ten or so of them. Once your list has been completed, go through it one by one and let the one that speaks to you be your choice, and write a poem about it.

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A Secret Wish 

She; across the seas, had heard about this relative since she was knee high. They said he was a tyrant and a boisterious no good fellow. He valued only his opinions and thought that he alone should  have a voice.

She left him high and dry. Search high search low, he couldn't find her - his wife of  three years. Three years was more than enough time for her to admit she had made a huge mistake. She made good trusted friends, saved some money and found herself somewhere else to live.

Here she was in the big apple for the first time. It was November. And her curiosity proded,  to see this creature everyone wanted to stay away from. One of his wife's friends reluctantly agreed to take her there; but in her mind she was thinking, snow would be the easy way out.

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 November for Beginners 

Prompt -Use the lines in a  prose not more than 144 words

‘Snow would be the easy

way out’

 

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Quietly Away

She set sail into that ether sea

With nary a goodbye nary a wave

Seems she knew there had to be

More than this earthly green cave

Prayerful countenance compare

Non to be as she was dear

The smell of bread baking follows me,

Ever to every bakery where,

Non can acheive her fait accompli;

My mother now rests at peace.

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#Elergy for my mother - Mrs Mary Mitchell; (30th May 1930 to 7th July 2021)

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"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Options And Choices

What do birds sing of

If not the arrangement of day

Each a new and gifted legacy

To do what with and leave behind

In yesterday.

When all is stated, narrated, said;

Still, there is no conclusion;

Only options and choices,

To act out and deem the day

Lived

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Poetics: A Bookish Mood/a>

Prompt: to choose a dead novelist or poet, one whom you have recently read or is simply a favorite, and write a poem on a work of theirs.

I read Middlemarch a few monts ago with my bookclub

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