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 It's here again. Another four year span culminating in Olympics. This year Paris hosts after 100 years since serving as host country.

A novelty opening has competing countries sailing around the Seine. Flags waving cheering to onlookers

It is the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics (although the Trinidad and Tobago athletes previously attended four other editions under the British colony and under the West Indies Federation)

The summer Olympics presents the best of the best to a worldwide audience. Every athlete doing his or her best for their countries.

Those fans not so lucky to be in the Paris stands view their TV screens and other devices.

a medal winner

smothered in hugs and kisses -

wears her country flag

© gillena cox 2024

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Haibun Monday 7-29-24: Summer Olympics 2024

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 Quadrille Summersault

The circus is coming  

She will be going

What better event to enjoy

Now school vacation is here 

Tickets already bought 

Expectations riding high 

Therre'll be lions and tigers 

And rings of fire

The clowns will certainly 

Do their summersaults 

The circus is coming 

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Quadrille #204 – Summertime, and the Poeming is Easy

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 [art of Alma Thomas]

Focus - a Fold poem

Since today her focus is spot on,
Camera clicks, a memory frozen,
When her child was born
Back then she didn't own a camera ;
Not so now, her focus is spot on,
Time must bow at her feet
So swiftly yesterday is gone
With sunshine brightly at day then
Moon in her shapely goings on
Allows the stolen light to shine
Freezing time, her focus is spot on,
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How to construct The Fold Poem HERE
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Writing “something beautiful”

art of Alma Thomas; write in response to one of her art given

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Open Link Night #365 (with Live edition)

 

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[Perseids from google ]

" Really captain, must we do this now?"  

"Aye Mr Marvelous, warp speed!, The Perseid meteor shower is on the rise and her glistening shafts will pierce the galactic bed in a matter of mere nanoseconds."

"It is what it is captain; everyday unfurls as it must; here we go then, to warp speed. Then we can all have a cup of tea"

Don't want to have us falling out of the sky like birds chased by Zeus."

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Life in a Cup of Tea

Flash Fiction using the line from Adrienne Su, “Oolong” 

every day unfurls as it must

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 Here Come The Dawn

Is night the passing of respite,

A little space to dream 

with eyes closed and minds

Open to existing realms unseen?

Or is there wonder too 

In the every day of dawning,

Close to the bosoms of awe,

A miracle of restart bringing?

Yes! the dawn is worth the hope,

The chance to continue or,

To delete and start again,

The inspiration of plan-to-make,

Of futures to carve out,

Dreams to sketch a blueprint,

Of ways forward to future,

Dare to give to today a hint.

That startup time, that nuance 

Of newness,  is the dawn we await

With its silent preface;

Then patterns of birdsongs,  to

Fillow on the heels to blue sky,

Where clouds  quietly drifting,

All embracing coverage,

And morning moon fading.

The twinkling of night,

The shadows and silhouettes,

The neon flashes,

All must kowtow to the transience

Of dawn;

The middling phase of; its here,

See? a new day.

It has come from no where.

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MTB: It Begins to Dawn

for todays MTB prompt we are writing in the poetry style of the A L’Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca:

 

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One Light

There is just one light

in  morning's sky, silent

With clouds the colour of charcoal,

And a breeze cooling as melon;

Find me a space here,

tucked into the silence,

I will stay a little longer;

Waiting for at least,

One bird to sing.

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In conversation with Sarah Connor aka fmmewritespoems

“Find me a space here,

tucked into the silence.”

From ‘No mail – no post’ i chose these 2 lines from  Sarah Connor, to use in a quadrille

 

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Sunday Callaloo

Tied up on the market stall 

for buyers to take home,

A favourite is the blue crabs.

To cook in the famous Sunday callaloo.

Nearby are ochroes and dasheen bush,

  the green peppers,

and bundles of chive seasoning.

One stop for this Sunday favourite.

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MOSAIC MONDAY #91

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Quadrille #203: Feeling Crabby

a quadrille using tge word crab

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[in my area the storms & hurricanes have started]

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