Thursday, October 9, 2025
1323
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
1322
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Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured
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Monday, October 6, 2025
1321
Quadrille - Boo
What a bootiful day,
The October moon must say,
She's larger than life,
And booting hidden stars of strife.
Since she's so big and bootiful,
There are books a plentiful,
To read as bedtime boosters,
So sleeptime will not be at all boorish.
Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured
ENJOY THE MUSIC
Thursday, October 2, 2025
1320
Goddess - A Fold
I am goddess; if you agree,
How would your adoration then
Befit that i-creature in me?
Would you send supplication?
To this goddess, if you agree.
Heaven is her abode and destination.
Do you understand what you see?
Power and mercy are her instructions,
But only, if you realize the i in me,
Ponder this! smile but never smirk,
At this goddess she, if you agree.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
1319
The ocean's song
In island crossings, we dare to listen
To the ripples of the vast ocean,
To the engine's roar across its surface,
To the rocks we engrave with our stares in passing.
Nothing from the distant mountains
Can tell us, not to journey bright;
But from the splash of a baby turtle,
Will the pattern of watery entertainment sing.
Our lifejackets securely donned,
We stare into the vastness of
An ocean, a picture, a song of trust,
Ah! the wind will silently caress our cheek,
If we open windows to the view of her songs.
From jettied shore to rocky shore,
The songs of adventure in careful prattle,
Fill the pirogue of curious care,
From here we left by watery way,
Now we safely get there.
Monday, September 29, 2025
1318
Response
A warm Caribbean morning progresses, with clear sky and pigeons in flock, out in the street. Here we have no Season of Autumn. Clouds are forming and patterning in creative shapes, left to the mind of onlookers to interpret. There will always be the storybook mind delighting with their imaginings. The rain drizzles and ceases. No one hears the breeze; still, a plumeria responds.
on the grey paved walk
a white flower has fallen -
its center yellow
Thursday, September 25, 2025
1317
with my eyes i trace
a pattern of stars at dawn -
praise for a new day/gc
tears blur one small boy’s efforts
to outline big sheriff’s badge/db
a yellow alert -
the way colours shape our
weather and warnings/gc
night rains streak the glass -
she runs the red turns too quick
on slick, empty road/db
office noises left behind
returning to home alone/gc
an owl keeps steady
while headlights veer and scatter
through the storm-soaked dark/db
Collaboration Note: The Rengay is a short form created by Gary Gay
'A Play of Lights' is a Rengay between Gillena Cox - St James, Trinidad & David (ben Alexander) Bogomolny - Jerusalem, Israel.
Start date: September 15th 2025
End date: September 17th 2025
Written: via email
Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured
ENJOY THE MUSIC
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1316
The art of happiness - a quadtille
Feeling the need of some happiness?
Maybe because you are sad,
Or people in your space are sad.
Do something nice for someone!
Smile with someone!
Listen to Soca music!
Dance as you listen !
Say a prayer for world peace.
'Happiness matters', speak it!
Monday, September 22, 2025
1315
Posey
Yellow ixoras you stay open,
Once bloomed, through day
And through night;
Sleepless under Caribbean skies,
In your sweet umbrella forms,
Put you in a posey,
What would you represent?
Loveliness, continuity, happiness,
hopeful, joy, alluring
Ay yes,
I know, you would be enduring.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
1314
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1313
lips cherry red
lounges in sheer demur
she longs to stir about yet still
she smiles
smiling
she maintains her outward relaxed
sweet apperance for him
hair shining gold
his muse
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, September 15, 2025
1312
It is the lash of a season of hurricanes, even though the punishment is not meted out evenly
The thunder and lightnings sound their loud reports. They just cannot be about their business quietly, for it is the nature of thunder to sound out, even sometimes outside the season of Atlantic hurricanes
© gillena cox 2025
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
1310
This Moon Is Enough
After an early supper,
There was she, hung
Bright bold and round,
The night moon;
I thought she was a supermoon,
Oh but no,
She was just the Februrary moon,
Shinning for me,
To end my birthday,
The waitress said,
There is a new ice cream shop,
On the floor below,
I said to myself,
This moon is enough.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
1309

I love you i mean,
Of course he did!
Is the sky blue?
Well not always.
So he may have loved me, somewhat
Is delrium a mystery of male makeup?
Or maybe sometime,
Or even mistakenly,
Or he might have thought he did.
Isn't the "i do" factor
A happily ever after story line?
So then why does the griot
Stumble and mumble at
Where is he?
Where is she?
Might "happily ever after stories"
Do have a time frame, or
Could it be, it contained the word
Together?
Which got lost in time.
You know,
Words and phrases
Can be quite fickle,
That way.
Monday, September 8, 2025
1308
It was much more than sitting,
Much more than applauding,
So much more than an evening
Out to see them dancing.
So much more than bodies twisting,
More than engaging
In those fine stories unfolding,
To the attention of a spellbound audience,
Much more.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
1307
August
you came in with
wide anticipation
frenzied steelband recognization
farewell
Thursday, August 28, 2025
1306
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
1305
We Went To See Them Dance
They have silenced us,
With their craft of excellence,
These dancers,
Bending, stretching, cavorting.
They have silenced us,
With the years of discipline,
They have endured,
To get to tonight.
They have silenced us,
Yes, the audience is in hush,
Not even my cough,
Dares to sound out.
They have silenced us,
And we are still stilled,
When an applause blooms,
But not from us, the audience.
Then a tiny voice ask,
"Who's clapping?"
"I dont see anyone clapping"
"Sound effects",
The other tiny voice whispers.
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
1304
Rumpus Quadrille
What a rumpus, boys fighting on
the floor,
I looked but i'd never seen them before,
Where did they come from? two naughty boys,
Disturbing the peace, upsetting our joys;
They rolled then rumpus-thumped
Out the door,
I swear! i'd never seen them before.
© gillena cox 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
1303
The wish for history and past thought
Steers him to the exposition
Wandering from room to room
Like a man in a museum
Eyes captivated by so much
Ancient issues, he muses
Why is this day so long
© gillena cox 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025
1302
Although the future gathers in vine, bush, and tree: Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape; still, Aesop's fox cared not for tomorrow, but only for the destruction of his opponent's now
Imagine looking at a lush bunch of green grapes and calling them sour! Left to me i'd ask to sample one before purchasing, not relying on or accepting his lie.
Fruit and nut although delicious ingredients for a Christmas black cake, i relish the rum, ceiling in the flavours, adding a much cherished, umph!
Bake a Trinidad black cake
Monday, August 11, 2025
1301
Don't jibber jabber,
It's World Steelpan Day,
Send a greeting,
Beat a pan,
This musical instrument,
Is here to stay.
Listen to some steelpan music
I know you will like it.
Dance, dance, dance, it's good exercise;
It's World Steelpan Day,
Don't jibber jabber.
© gillena cox 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025
1300
walking in sync
two bestfriends
returning from school
the shadows beside them
seem to melt away from
a high tiled wall
© gillena cox 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
1299
Rain Forest Trek
Sneakers treck through the rain forest
Eyes a wandering through the tree tops
What's that sound we want to know
In the city we do not hear this
The marvel of the monkey ladder vine
From ground to the trees grows strong
Strong enough to become furniture
To listen to your guide is wise
For some of these plants can grab and hold you
Never wanting to let you go
But its okay to breath in the sweet
Fragrance of the incense trees
© gillena cox 2025