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I-  Calypso

Lyrics to make a big man cry,

Sassy women to whine,

And elders' stories to narrate,

Calypso sweet sweet calypso.

II - Steelpan

And; ah likyting likyting likyting,

That's how the whole thing start,

Then the tuning and the styling,

Now steelpan  is world class.

III - Doubles

You can leave your house on empty belly,

Stand up under the doubles vendor's umbrella,

Breakfast with - hot mild or sweet sauce,

Nothing like a doubles to start a trini day.

© gillena cox 2024

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

MTB: Counting to Three

CHALLENGE:choose your own, a well-known, or a random location from the website what3words.com

use your three words to write a 3 stanza poem

each word as topic per stanza

each stanza numbered or subtitled with the reference word

MY WORDS 

calypso...steelpan...doubles

REVISIT TO READ

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OCTOBER IS CALYPSO HISTORY MONTH IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY  Mighty Bomber (1928 –2022)

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[image Samuel Palmer, The Harvest Moon, c. 1833 courtesy dVerse poetry pub]

Harvest Fold

Penny for thoughts? mine's worth more,

Why begrudge with such tiny offering,

As done in yon ancient yore,

Darnel  and wheat  a harvest to gather,

Of toil and endurance mine's worth more,

Life we know from struggle and reward,

Sets to slumber and to snore,

When  the harvest moon alights every sky,

With dreams and legends and fervent lore,

Dreamer and doctor fisher and farmer 

Field a plenty, mine's worth more.

© gillena cox 2024

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Poetics: Haunted Harvest

REVISIT TO READ

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OCTOBER IS CALYPSO HISTORY MONTH IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ENJOY THIS CALYPSO BY  LORD MELODY (1926 - 1988)