Last year, i bought a pair of silver sandals.They glitter in the sunlight. I admire my own feet with toes also painted silver.
This obsession with silver is not new. I suppose it will carry on long after the pair of sandals are no more wearable.
a long time ago
the pair of silver bracelets -
my husband wore one
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Option...
Here is one, here is another. Though they are found some distance apart, the lesisurely walk along Maracas Beach in new flip flops close the distance between finds.
The tiny shells we pick up are halved and empty and halfway buried in the sand. It is a fun pastime, though.
Chip chip is delicious when curried, so i have heard, time and time again, but i have never eaten this much talked about dish.
a nagging hunger
lets go to get bake and shark -
now all of us smile
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Rain and rain and more rain. To round off The Rainy Season, to add a contrast background to Caribbean Christmas trees sparkling and blinking, indoors and outdoors.
The choice to be festive like the Christmas trees transfering your hope into the radiance of lights, or go for the gloom the misty grey clouded mornings, seeping depressed days into the soul.
rainy season ending
with 9misty morning clouds -
Christmas trees blinking
October 31st will be a public holiday here in Trinidad and Tobago for the observance of Divali (also spelt Diwali). On the street where i live there, a family hosts this festival every year and people from all over the country and also foreigners come to see the lights.Food is served freely on this night. The block which spans about four buildings, that part of the street is closed to traffic and bamboo sculptures are put in the street, deyas are mounted and lit on the holiday night. The festival is still popular but over recent years, the crowd has dwindled.
the smell of ghee
deyas on bamboo frames lit -
who can stay indoors
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CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY 2008 Stellarenga
A Stellarenga is a seven-link poem containing only one-liners. The first and last links mention a cosmic body, e.g., a planet, a star or one of the luminaries. Renga style linkage means that each link stands separately yet relates to the preceding and following ku either by theme, wordplay, or twist of idea. A line-space is generally placed between each ku; a stellarenga is really a set of poems. As in all renga poems a straight or tell-all narrative should be avoided. A Stellarenga can be done solo or partnered.The Stellarenga was created by Alexis K. Rotella in March 1997)
SOME HINTS OF DIVALI PAST ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE (first posted at my blog Lunch Break)
My son is in the driver seat. We are going towards the Oueens Park Savannah. Once there the Botanical Gardens is on our left and The Savannah on our right. It's the month of June, so the Poui lining the perimeter are hushed in green, Oh,but Flamboyants also called Gulmohar, wow! these trees are showing off so much.
blossoming in flames
red/orange of Flamboyants
for miles around
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It's here again. Another four year span culminating in Olympics. This year Paris hosts after 100 years since serving as host country.
A novelty opening has competing countries sailing around the Seine. Flags waving cheering to onlookers
It is the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics (although the Trinidad and Tobago athletes previously attended four other editions under the British colony and under the West Indies Federation)
The summer Olympics presents the best of the best to a worldwide audience. Every athlete doing his or her best for their countries.
Those fans not so lucky to be in the Paris stands view their TV screens and other devices.
a medal winner
smothered in hugs and kisses -
wears her country flag
Earth We
Technology rewards us with conversations and closeness. We share like and subscribe. We zoom, link up and link in.
little square boxes
of people chatting online -
a live meeting
But what about our natural environment. The destruction is overwhelming. Building crumble like the tossed paper balls of am irate writer. Machine guns and tankers deface the landscape. Where are the trees? The earth cries as blood is spilt.
TV screen shots -
the anguish of a mother
as her child goes limp
The fishes in the sea; who cares about them as trash finds its way from rivers and streams to its depths annoying sea animal and plant life. Fishes must be crying too.
feet along the sand
plastic bottle clean up -
here's a garbage bag
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Blossom Speak
This year i see the yellow patches on the mountains. I spot the pink infloresence around the Queens Park Savannah and i exclaim as i always do.
We are in Holy Week the week leading up to Easter, when i think, every said poui tree on the island would exclaim here i am in blossom speak.
In your clime you talk about cherry blossoms at the same time here in my clime i speak of poui
from the car window -
craning my neck to view
pink poui blossoms
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We here in Trinidad and Tobago are experiencing our Dry Season one of the two climatic seasons prescribed to us.
Dry Season is a boon for the carnival minded. All that sun adds sparkle to glitter and shimmer of costumes. And gives valid excuse to peel down and revel on carnival days.
And after the carnival bacchanal the cool-down on beaches, but preferably under a beach umbrella.
While the more penitent fast and abstain in Lenten style.
Yesterday it rained and rained. A sudden outburst from a cumulus happy sky. Happens.
from rain-soaked sky
February moon sails in -
before night lamps light
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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
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My sorrel recipe HERE
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
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