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What do i know of equinoxes. I live in a clime where seasons are Dry (January to May)

 then Wet (June to December) But strange overlaps occur. Days thunders into Dry, and drought-like

days seep into Wet. But we, here in Trinidad and Tobago, are not the only ones marking these topsy turvy days.

I suppose equinoxes will remain stable, even though the scientist and climate observers question, will there be clear delineated seasons in the future?

Meanwhile i sit in my backyard at dawn; once there is no rain, and watch the stars, (before day saunters in) some twinkle, some don't.

The bold-facedness of a cat!  stalking through my back yard and slinking through the gate.I have no pets..

twenty-one stars counted -

the way Vivaldi knew it

seasons are destined

© gillena cox 2024

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 Quadrille - Spin

Come now children sit thee in a circle

I'll spin a yarn, yes i'll tell a tale

No one will leave until i say crick crack

And the story ends.

Tales of dounes and silk cotton trees

And spiders spinning their very finest web

© gillena cox 2024

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Door Ajar,

Door ajar

A peek allowed into her heart,

She loves wholeheartedly 

Still expecting love in return

She allows only a peek into

A heart that can easily be wounded 

A door that can open to

A jar full of fireflies

Given with a smile

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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."

© gillena cox 2024

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

every day unfurls as it must

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 Times Flies?

Time has no wings yet, we say time flies another May is upon us already the fifth month spans its days.

white butterflies how

they scallop across flowers

here in my garden 

 Today we celebrate them: Happy International Bee Day. Honey makers: queens, drones they all add to the sweetness of life

not only today 

a bee having breakfast in

the ixora bush

Its nearing the time of rains and floods. A tease of rain a few days ago. By May end,  the whole day rains will follow.

a mockingbird skips

across the wall deceiding

where to fly off to

Time Flies? © gillena cox 2024

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 Quadrille - Place

Is there a place called Heaven

High up and far beyond

Where joy and peace live happily

After a hard day's toil below 

Or is there a thing like the poet's hope

In a place yet to be found

Without out windows or doors.

Quadrille - Place © gillena cox 2024

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Still Life with Fruit, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Medium: oil on canvas FROM Bing.com

Let Down Your Hair

Friday's proposal

to the day around the corner;

Let's relax, let our hair down,

Drink a toast,

The week has come to an end.

Saturday is waiting

In the shadows,

With her empty basket,

To market to market,

The mangoes and pineapples

We'll buy.

© gillena cox 2024

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Cooked with rice and meat called pelau, or stewed alone, 

Pigeon Peas is a traditional Carnival Season food in Trinidad and Tobago;  grown in home gardens and farms.

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 dVerse — Prosery — January 15 

using a line from

Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham

To The Movies

I guess it was one of those morning where you looked to the paper boy; calling out in the street, the urgency to buy news in print their goal. This early morning scene always made her smile and shake her head. Oh but that morning in particular;

oh but that smile was the last smile

to come upon her face,  for soon after she would have gotten the news of a ship built to last, then sunken; carrying down so many hopes dreams and connections.

And many many years later. The movies would made the day come alive once more.

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 Happy NEW YEAR 

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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.]

© gillena cox 2023

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

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Write a quadrille using the word or som form of it 

snow

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ENJOY THE MUSIC 

Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas

 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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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

© gillenacox 2023

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HELLO! NOVEMBER

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 Way Of The Wind

Let's see how this chapter enfolds.

I've always wanted to go on a visit,

To see the age old cherry trees,

In the Japanese festival.

To catch a sakura petal in my hand;

Or bask in the tremendous splendor

Of flowers carpeting a wonderland.

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Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Spell

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September Seasons: a haibun

I remember from school days, growing up;  a weather verse with a line "September remember"

I read about and marvel of the autumn/September equinox: derived from the Latin aequinoctium, from aequus (equal) and nox (genitive noctis, plural noctium) (of the equal nights). On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.

heat wave here -

jugs of cucumber water

healthy option

 September 23rd and its another season of Trini Christmas music. One hundred day of it, to be exact; hosted by our 'Sweet 100.1 FM' radio station. I am locked on.

Parang, soca parang, christmas calypsoes and laced in,  some of the international traditional ones. But, the emphasis is Trini songs and music.

cooking roti

i dance to the music from

my red radio

© gillena cox 2023

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Last Monday this September. Hope you had a nice September

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Peewah, so called in Trinidad and Tobago is a palm fruit which when boiled with salt, makes a very tasty snack. 

It has the texture of a very fibrous sweet potato, only it is not sweet. 

Its is also know in some countries as Peach Palm Fruit

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 Quadrille #184 Smashing Poems  

Quadrille - Smash

When the watermelon smashed to the ground, 

it was as if the hope of a heatwave's passing just got dashed;

36 degrees C under the sun,

what a waste of delicious red cooling bites;

island breezes seem banished to fiction,

scourching hot days, reality.

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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

By William Shakespeare

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,

And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,

And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,

And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er

The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,

Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought; By William Shakespeare HERE

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 There at the very edge of longing

A glass of water pursued her lips

Ruby like bunched grapes

From a compote hanging

What is it to quench perseverance

Purposed of passion's desire

It is but a glass of water

In the middle of reverence 

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 Happy Month of July

Lets dance in the month of July

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Cassava is a root vegetable. It is the underground part of the cassava shrub, which has the Latin name Manihot esculenta. Like potatoes and yams, it is a tuber crop. Cassava roots have a similar shape to sweet potatoes. People can also eat the leaves of the cassava plant... [note from the internet]

 

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 If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow ...Emile Zola... 

 Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree ...Joyce Meyer...

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