Showing posts with label World Steelpan Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Steelpan Day. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2025

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 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


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Monday, August 12, 2024

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A time traveller so enthused about his crash landing in the year 2024 decides to inscribe his presence in the hymn of eternity, he writes:
I will sing praises to pioneers and present-day celebrations. and I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss; so everyone will know the truth about badjohn fights and hooligan days, discarded oil drums and pan sticks.

Tag the page Trinidad and Tobago; Caribbean, a space tiny and unassuming. Assuming that the lines will also word the sweet sounds of steelpan music soaring so vast and wide that the world can all stand together and applaud at the same time. 'Oh Happy Day'.
For it's no longer a paragraph one scenario. I'ts now about energy, passion, respect. A culture realized and searchable. Then he down his quill to have a good last look around.
© gillena cox 2024

#NOTE: (fact) YESTERDAY AUGUST 11 WAS WORLD STEELPAN DAY

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Today's challenge is to write prosery (flash fiction) using the following lines from 
----Leonard Cohen
“And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.”

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 443

verses


REVISIT TO READ


Thursday, August 11, 2022

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 World Steelpan Day image courtesy Pantrinbago


PAN SOAR 
From out of sweat and frustration
From humble beginnings
Licky ting Licky tang
Sweet scintillating music
Of bottle and spoon
To laurels of orchestral heights

Among the lilliputs of society
Labelled with the castaways
Merging and rising to higher heights
Standing tall between giants
Burgeoning through ocean and sky
Soaring to faraway lands

Responsibility riot and disorder
Measuring territorial distance with discord
Crossing the line into wine and jam
Gyrating straight to university
To stimulate entertain reward and merit
Pan really reach 
[i wrote 'Pan Soar' late 1900's. It was first published at my website Patch Work at the cover page in 2001. However, i lost this website.  Pan Soar i also had printed on gift mugs and it was too, published in an anthology by poetry.com.] 

HAPPY WORLD STEELPAN DAY.

 
STEELPAN OCTELLE
Bold and bright a phoenix at will,  
Embers of bottle and spoon still
Smothering, caused so to rise
World class, rejecting demise;
Sweet music recycled from oil
Drums, a merriment coil.
Bold and bright a phoenix at will,  
Embers of bottle and spoon still.
 STEELPAN OCTELLE © gillena cox 2022

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Poetry Form: Octelle
REVISIT

rise pan man
pan night and day
star ken professor philmore
story of a pan man
we beat closure
tasty bite
a tender thing

ENJOY THE MUSIC:Pan Is Beautiful VI