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[In Mosaic 1: Leaves of The Caricature Plant and leaves of  Purple Shamrock. They are the same colour all year through since we in T&T do not have a Season of Autumn] and a painting of The Caricature leaves

FASHION ME A NEW NORMAL

Wet blanket, this novel corona. Shut ins, lock downs, distancing, serves us cold turkey. 

We mask to ward off viral attacks.

Birthday song our hand washing guide  for children.

Elbows bounce, and hugs must be virtual. What a world this new normal fashions.

© gillena cox 2020

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We are in our 100 Days of Christmas celebrating on the radio with musical genres themed for the festival by our local artistes and singers and too some of the traditional pieces
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #266: A Happy Monday to all


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[In mosaic 2: Leaves of The Purple Shamrock which maintain this colour throughout the year. Here in T& T we do not have a season of Autumn. Our  two seasons are The Rainy/Hurricance Season and The Dry Season]

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Its Day 13 of 100 Days of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 radio station

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Mosaic Monday

 #99: My Escape

AND

Quadrille #113: Blanket Us

REVISIT

5 October 2015

...birthing a new normal

...new age plight of our children

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ENJOY THE MUSIC: Gentle Del Caribe- Los Tocadores


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[photos from my archive again today, art - a crop from a larger painting using poster paints ]

You look and look and finally she is ripe like an orange ready for juicing.The moon full in the night sky waiting for the shadows of witches brooms to ride

While low down below goblins stalk the night rapping on doorknobs shiny in  the light of pumpkins and garish smiles

a shower of sweets

a half full sack greedy to

 knock on other doors

© gillena cox 2020

##Halloween is not a tradition in Trinidad so this haibun is a fantasy write

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We are in our 100 Days of Christmas celebrating on the radio with musical genres themed for the festival by our local artistes and singers and too some of the traditional pieces
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #265: A Happy Monday to all


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[Mosaic 2 random words]


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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Mosaic Monday
Mosaic Monday #98: The Maggie Tribute

AND


Haibun Monday 9/28/20: to the Moon!
... 


REVISIT
...halloween
28 September 2015
moon


Its Day 6 of 100 days of Christmas, here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 Radio Station

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ENJOY THE MUSIC: Los Tocadores - Sereno Sereno



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STILL CARRY YOUR SMILE - A FOLD
Team 'Super Heroes' is called to wear the mask,
Covering our lips but never once our hearts;
We are ready, willing, able to take on the task;
Covering our noses remembering smell of roses,
Carrying smiles though called to wear the mask;
In pain of pandemic the art of learning chalks,
Hand washing songs for a simple multitask,
On a world wide stage of greatest grievance;
Who is watching, who will applaud this masque?
Will there be standing ovations at the end
Of our performance? called to wear the mask.
STILL CARRY YOUR SMILE - A FOLD © gillena cox 2020


How to construct The Fold Poem HERE
and HERE


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So July is upon us, We are into the second half of the year. And our second month of the Rainy Season here in Trinidad and Tobago
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #253: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧ What's happening with easing of lockdown where you are. Churches can now carry a seventy five percent congregation, here in T&T🇹🇹

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#87: TIME


REVISIT
6 JuLY 2015
a smile a nod...2018
behind the mask 2016


ENJOY THE MUSIC 'Nat King Cole ~ Smile (lyrics)'

Monday WRites 251

[Me in my backyard before going to church, yesterday]

I went to church yesterday wearing my mask, ooh very strange.
Good Morning friends of Monday WRites. What's your Monday like so far? Last weekend all churches were reopened again here in T&T, with the easing of lockdown in phases. Now beaches and gyms have reopened. Schools are still closed
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #251: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧ and EXTENDED FATHER'S DAY GREETINGS to all fathers visiting today

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#85: The Rest of the Story


AND



Traditional writing – on a shining topic!


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A HAIBUN STYLED READING NOVEMBER 2019
Maybe i was born to tell stories, a little griot in my own right. Whom am i kidding, maybe not. Reading bedtime stories has been part of the narrative in my parenting journey and my son the younger of my two children also wanted to hear another one. Ah but that is a long time ago. I am now grandmother to the sweetest seven year old girl.

Boys and girls they enter the library with fresh faces and eager eyes, brought by their teacher who cautions them to behave. All seated, I take red shinny baubles and some tinsel out of a plastic bag. And with poetic license lie to them, telling them they will not be transported to storyland unless and until each one of them tell me the first thing that comes to mind.

This is indeed a shining moment. Everyone is relaxed and the fun begins. Its story time. Each chapter of the book 'Anansi An Unusual Experience 'starts with a haiku poem. It is one of the books i have written for children. A chapter book targeting ages 5 to 11. We agree to do the reading one person hidden from view of the children reading the introductory haiku and myself in front view of the children reading the story text. A haibun style reading.

tinsel and baubles -
the sound of paper tearing
between giggles
© gillena cox 2020


NOTE: The end haiku above in today's haibun is the Chapter One introductory haiku of 'Anansi An Unusual Experience'


REVISIT
22 June 2017
22June 2015


ENJOY THE MUSIC

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Today's mosaic I call June Jumble: I went to my blog Lunch Break and took 4 June photos from years (2006 -Flamboyant Tree. 2007 - Caricature flowers, 2008 - Bougainvillea, and 2009 candle Bush Floral spikes), combined them for this June Jumble.

Wishing all A Happy Monday: Goodbye May Welcome June
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #248: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#82: Emerging


AND



#Quadrille #105
Cry Havoc and Let ‘SLIP’ the Dogs of War




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STEPPING OUT IN FAITH
Hers was a slip of the tongue;
What she really wanted to articulate,
Was the way her mind had sung,
That day not so long ago at the gate,
To her new normal lifestyle adventure,
Que sera sera,
Who knew this day would come.
STEPPING OUT IN FAITH © gillena cox 2020




REVISIT
1 June 2017
1 May 2015

Monday WRites 245

This is how my garden said Happy Mother's Day to me, and by extension i am saying belated Mother's Day Greetings to all visiting mothers today

Wishing all A Happy Monday
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or
eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #245: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#79: Three Years In Montana


AND



Prosery: Maya Angelou
Challenged to use the seven words
[his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream]
From Maya Angelou's poem Caged Bird in a prose writing of not more than 144words

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The beautiful flower moon arrived early. Birds were still nesting in their hushed roosts. She was round and full, super bright at the cusp of day and night. She had traversed gazillion of stars in her eating frenzy. She was sated now.

Will there be rain to add to the tears of an earth pining under the burden of pandemic charges?

Who knew as she waned, as morning stretched awake, that her slumber behind azure curtains light and gossamer like spider weaves, would lead to a night of quarantined madness, as ominous clouds dared to hide her brillance.

And below, in a sleepy little cottage in the woods, the hermit, as he wakes in a cold sweat, his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
© gillena cox


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REVISIT
11 May 2017

11 May 2016

11 May 2015

no linky today keeping it simple ..working from my mobile phone..a new charger for my lap top ...ordered



[gif created in PicsArt background photo © gillena cox]

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QUADRILLE CLOSED
Sign on the door says 'Closed,'
Maybe, too early would have been better.

People need to wear face masks,
Is this a bar? Shouldn't they be open though?

The early bird catches the fattest worm, but
Doors in this pandemic have no worm quality.
© gillena cox 2020

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Hang in there, heed the cautions, be safe, be healthy. A blessed 'Holy Week' to those who observe.
You've heard about the Monday Blues well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). Welcome to Monday WRites #240: A Happy Monday to all ❧✿❧

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday
#74: Let's Go to the Beach!


AND



Quadrille #101:
What’s Neither Closed Nor Cancelled? Poetry.


AND

Ruby Tuesday Too



REVISIT
Apr 6th 2018
6 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2015


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Monday WRites 226

YEAR END FOLD
Another door is closing,
This time, twenty nineteen
Cannot venture back in,
Except of course, by way of
Memories; a door is closing
A new decade is upon us
This can only be reassuring
If we are ready, are we ready?
Anything at door jamb stopping
This closure must be removed,
Indeed another door is closing.
YEAR END FOLD © gillena cox 2019

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Christmas for me this year was Morning mass, coffee, fruit smoothie (i had had the start of a root canal procedure on 19th December so i was having soups and other such liquid foods not chewing and taking meds). WhatS App greetings, The start of my Twelve day of Christmas 2019-2020 at my blog Lunch Break and The start of my Facebook event Gifts of haiku for Baby Jesus 2019-2020. I had lunch (since my med finished on Christmas Eve i had a little wine and had some solid soft things so i chewed) with my daughter at her place we exchange gifts and chatted and looked at TV then back home. We spoke on the phone but, i haven't seen my son and my granddaughter yet for the season.

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You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea). A Happy Monday to all
Welcome to Monday WRites #226, ❧✿❧ Happy Holidays; BEST WISHES

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Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday #60: A Little Taste of Christmas

AND


Blue Monday
Snowman Ornament




REVISIT
30 December 2016
YEAR END 2018


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ENJOY THE MUSIC