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[Extinction of Useless Lights by Yves Tanguy (1927), image courtesy deVerse Poets Pub]

Dawn sky becomes the artist,

This canvas of depth and shadow,

What is being held,

Between whispers of breath?

Who owns the language,

Of declaration?

When can we hear,

The voice of morning?

The alliances of breeze and

Movement skirts banana fronds,

The dance of unfetted coming

And already here is alarming.

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Looking Back

this August rainbow,

remarkable as we were,

different colours,

red blue green yellow saw us,

clad in family,

first get together this way,

generations mixed,

sisters brothers cousins kids,

kids enjoyed the pool,

adults talked and talked on end,

sometimes a rainbow,

arcs to group a family,

both past and present,

yellow for my mom deceased.

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[August 23rd 2025. Family get together. My brother and i. I am the first, he is the last. We usually tag ourselves The Alpha and The Omega'. My tee shirt is fluorescent yellow]

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[Winter Slumber by. Natacha Chohra from Google] 

Bears hibernate, and

People will sleep more

In winter, if you let them,

The snow needs to be shovelled,

The snowman needs a carrot nose,

Snow angels don't just fly in,

There's a lot of work to be done,

So get out of bed!

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[a photo i snapped at Long Circular Mall here in St James 2025]

Mall Adorned - Tableau

There's a lot of red,

 Red baubles hung high,

Smaller ones also,

Look up, the ceiling,

Holds them securely,

There for our joy.

The whites inbetween,

A cooling, for eyes

Lured to instant watch,

The gold and silver,

Oh so glamourous,

Christmas at the mall.

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[image courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

 Appliqued to a bice sky,

Cumulus gangs in array,

No rain today,

What a wonderful way,

To venture out,

Buying gifts for,

Christmas time is here.

Don't forget the wrappings,

And the bows.

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It would be my first voyage to outerspace. Will it be cold, will it be hot? At this point, i didn't really care. I just wanted some peace in my life

When i looked up to the sky, where birds sing and sail, and aeroplanes glided. I knew i didn't see far enough above me.

The granites and schists of my dark and stubborn country led me to the idea of moving, somewhere far away, somewhere where light filters through every crevasse, somewhere bright where rainbows are picked, like ripe mangos, off trees.

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[image: Musée Ingres-Bourdelle – L’Allégorie du goût – WIERIX Jérôme (graveur) , VOS Martin de (d’après) courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

Abundance

After the harvest

Before the threshing

Under the wagon

Near the market

Deep in the autumn

Always so colourful

Never ever dull

Cause the leaves fall

Eager for his kisses

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 Garuda Swoop Making Myths [11]

Shout, thunder, reach the 

Clouds; these claws shall

Firmly clasp, with agreement,

Divine leader under the sky

Mayhem shall rain, as he

Absolves to garner of all,

Abdicate to this predicament?

Who is mightier than i?

Crackling lightening, she

Calls to garuda, do not maul

My dear prince! for he is meant

To rule divinely, thats why.

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FROM

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[this post was edited to add the subtitle Making Myths [11]

 

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 The Result

Zero zilch nada

She could have worked harder

Procrastination was her game

That's what lead her to shame

When the results came in

She recognized her sin

Though shalt not play the sloth

Do not play the sloth

Let not that be your lot

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[image from google

A weed juts from a crevasse

A will  to survive this fragile ego shows

It will in time surprise us

Adorned with its purple hues

Short blossoming tangents cause for our smile

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 123 go!

One two three, go!

Three sides to a triangle,

Third time's a charm.

A trinity of mountains,

The explorer named us Trinidad.

Land of steelpan so we transformed,

A twentieth century gift,

To a world loving music,

As much as we do.

One two three, go!

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[plastic funnels from google]

 I use my plastic funnel to pour liquid from a jug into a bottle. No fuss no spills. A simple kitchen procedure can turn into a meditation of remberance.

I am smiling to myself. Why ? My granddaughter comes to mind. In her little protective days, when her dad and mum were her world.

"Gramma!" she says to me "my dad does not have strainers like that, i must tell him to get some"

Ah but they just keep growing up, with new challenges for both mum and dad

first by her mum

the teenager is scolded

also by her dad

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“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain

Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all.”

Maybe Just Maybe

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink 

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain. 

Ah! but so puissant is need of it

 It must be something necessary

Neither food, rest, nor shelter

What is it then ?

Not sustenance, not time out, not abode

Then what is it?

Maybe some DNA particle, 

Which, under the microscope spells human.

Instinctively we know it ,

I believe it is, and is crucial

“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink 

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.” 

Ah! but so puissant is need of it,

It is scripturally defined.

Maybe, just maybe, 

It is the driving force of humanity's existence.

Maybe all we need to understand is,

That love is, love matters.

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 So This Is Sweet T&T

It's the month of November;

Shaking shak shak, playing mandolin and

guitar,

Frilly shirts swaying below

The smiles of young girls, 

Singing in school parang, contests.

Christmas trees; tinseled, baubled,

Spring up in banks, restuarants,

And such like places, blinking lights.

So this is sweet T&T;

Where the candy canes appear,

In sweet shops and parlours,

Because St Nicholas feast is near.

Buy a pack!

Hear the crinkle of celophane

Opening them.

Every child loves a candy cane;

Maybe its the shape,

Or maybe the stripes,

They love them.

So this is sweet T&T;

Soca, parang, and Christmas tunes

Play on the radio one hundred day to Christmas

Its all about, black cake and sorrel,

Ginger beer and ponche de creme,

Feasting and feteing;

A boy born in a manger.

Long before we were born.

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 Quadrille - Coax

Who coaxed the stars from my night sky

And left a blanket of charcoal cloud

Were not i

The one who sang aloud

Soca songs for party days

To liven mood swings oft

And psalms fit for church ways

Seemingly not enough. 

My stars!

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 Present Day Shopper

Who goes to market to buy a fat pig

When children's rhymes are all but near extinct

Today our grocery stores are chuck fill

Enough lables, fill the basket with fig

Tap tapping on key boards no need of ink

Who goes to market to buy a fat pig

When children's rhymes are all but near extinct

What ever you do hold onto your wig

Don't let it perish in the kitchen sink

Nor let it be damaged in just a blink

Who goes to market to buy a fat pig

When children's rhymes are all but near extinct

Today our grocery stores are chuck fill

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 Need of Lighting

It's as if the stars feel,

There is no need of lighting,

They have below, their neons,

They have their red light spaces,

I used to look up in a sky,

Full of nighf stars, some twinkling 

But now not so.

The sky turns coal black 

I wait for a lucky dawn,

When i can see a twinkling,

When i can even count them.

Tsk tsk!

It's as if the stars feel,

There is no more,

Need of lighting.

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 November Letters

Was it yesterday? No, not yesterday. I learned to know the love of bare November days, before the coming of the snow, from letters.

Letters written in beautiful cursive hand, telling bleak tales, written when long nights, stretched to insomnia.

Insomnia, was never the writer's pleasure, rather instead, the stretch of words penned across oceans in relative conversation, with the art of anticipation to receive reciprocal replies, these were her November guests.

Those answers which warm the heart, like hot chocolate in which tiny mashmallows surf, on nights chilly like blizzard winds.

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 Hands Engaged Love Language - A Choka

Coconut grated

On a tin grater, grated

Now water added

Coconut milk then squeezed 

Through fine cotton cloth

Sugar stirred into the milk

Boil, until thickened

Maybe chocolate added or

Or maybe ginger

Thicken enough to scoop out

 To a flat surface

 A large plate will surffice

Cut  squares evenly

For children cherished, this sweet

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 Hands Emgaged Love Language

Coconut grated on a tin grater

Enough water added

Coconut milk squeezed 

Through fine cotton cloth

Sugar stirred into coconut milk

Boiled, until thickened and pastey

Maybe chocolate could be added

Or maybe ginger

Beat beat beat thicken some more

Thick enough to scoop out 

Onto a flat surface

Perhaps a large plate

Cut into squares when cool enough

A snack, a delight for children cherished

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 Quadrille - Whirl

What a whirl of weird goings ons,

Badjohn talk,  terrorize the Caribbean,

And, as if that is not enough,

A whirligig of a hurricane with hit no miss

Words, words, watch your words

US, Venezuela, China, Russia

Let peace instead  whirl

Peace! whirl peace.

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So Be It

 How is it that a fruit will ripen hence 

With birds drawn to its presence with whistles

From afar and from near not for a pence

But in a form of mood that is skittles 

They know when and where to get there vititles

Thus freely taken as freely given. 

No worries these favoured feathered even

If day should be long or short appearing

Ah but we to fuss and panic is then

Made to show aging lines quick in coming 

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