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Jouvert Monday Madness 

Carnival Monday and Tuesday comes just before Ash Wednesday, so it is usually a February or March event. The Carnival season ends with two days of masquerade through the streets. 

The two day  parade starts at dawn with the wierdest of costumes; paints and mud, yes, mud on the bodies of revelers. This early Monday morning opening is called Jouvert (pronunced joo-vay) 

This year 2025, we can chalk it to March madness. The rest of the parades that is Monday afternoon and Tuesday is about intricate designs and artistry through the streets.  Beads, feathers, sequins, and colour play a dynamic drama in the streets.

 coconut vendors

ply their trade even early

in the dawn hours

© gillena cox 2025

[Here i am in the melee]

(Photos gillenacox2025 except the pic of me drinkibg coconut water)

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Haibun Monday 3-3-25 March madness

REVISIT TO READ

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Last of my Carnival Past mosaics for 2021

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It's Carnival Monday here in Trinidad and Tobago, jouvert (dirty mas)  starts the adult street parades, however this pandemic year 2021 was quiet compared. The Carnival Season ends tomorrow. Though the spirit and vibe is present, the pandemic prevents crowd activities.  The music did  keep us in the mood and the new normal fostered all sorts of creatives: virtuals fetes, workshops,  and talk shops and look backs through the carnival archives and virtual competitions. 

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SOME OF MY JOUVERT POEM LINKS
how it starts raucous music high five mud mas inhibitions peeled primal self frenzy chocolate covered bathed in fun loving
jouvert revellers jouvert a renku

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Mosaic Monday 

#118: Another Revolution Around The Sun

ANDProsery: The Song of Wandering AengusPrompted to use the Lines, in a prose not more than 144 words long.I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head

A FAIRY AFIRE

Nine hazel trees waved in the sun hot breeze. Fish in the pond jumped and frolicked below, in the shade of windswept boughs.

Who knows whether they were Salmon or Tilapia, as the report goes, they were fish. Fish who thought their sanctuary sacred. So much so, they lived peacefully among lazy caiman which ate their weight of water hyacinths in said dreamy haven. 

Till one day, a fire fairy wandered in from the next glen. She was so broken, her whole being ached from the longing for her unfaithful lover.

She sat under one hazel, head bowed, wings drooping, cradling  sorrow. This was  too much for her to bear. Before she exploded into a million tiny fiery bits headed toward the sun, she heard her own heart speak: "I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head"

© gillena cox 

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[For today's mosaic i used random signs i captured with my cell phone during the pre Carnival days]
HOW IT STARTS
long before
the dawn birds
Jouvert bands

even though
the mud sticks
for a while

long after
Carnival
the fun lasts
HOW IT STARTS © gillena cox 2019

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Already the First Monday in March and Carnival Monday in Trinidad and Tobago: adults at play in all their various schisms of colour and rhythm
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Mosaic Monday
#17 - Report: Week 105 of Retirement

AND


Macro Monday 2: Numerals


#JOUVERT is a beginning event and smearing body and clothes with mud is a tradition. Nowadays paints are also used. It starts as early as 2:30 at early dawn on the Monday of Carnival, the start of the adult Carnival street parades.

# MORE JOUVERT
more Jouvert 1
more Jouvert 2
more Jouvert 3
more Jouvert 4
more Jouvert 5

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Jouvert
birds songs are dulled
the raucous music trucks
draw sunshine too in revellery
Monday
© gillena cox 2018

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Here i am, mere footsteps from my house, sharing the vibe. Its Jouvert. Monday morning the start of adult masquerade through the streets. The season of Carnival ends tomorrow.
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#72

AND

Blue Monday: Cactus Woman

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Enjoy The Music


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REVISIT
Jouvert 2017
Jouvert 2016
Jouvert 2015

Monday WRites 98

HAPPY CARNIVAL MONDAY T&T

HIGH FIVE
Pale blue skies, clearing into morning. Green trees and masqueraders wearing the colour: jouvert-morning-fun. Its Monday of Carnival 2017. I talk to a jouvert masquerader, happily, covered in mud and paint. Why am i not in the band? Why am i standing at the corner? Been there done that. She gives me a high five and continues dancing away to catch up with the rest of the band.
HIGH FIVE © gillena cox 2017

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Revisit
Jouvert 2016
Jouvert 2015
about Jouvert


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Awww Mondays


Will Link also to The Tuesday Platform

Monday Writes 96

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ITS THE MUD THAT LUVS US
Wallowing in our comfort zones,
Is not the taste of Mondays;
Penultimate to the hype of carnival,
Indeed just the opposite.

Altars of reverence are deserted,
Adulting factors of brain go warp.
A communal mayhem dances,
To the feverish pace, of bacchanalia.

And yes!
Mud always, its the mud that luvs us,
As we become our own primal Adam.
ITS THE MUD THAT LUVS US © gillena cox 2017

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ALSO
recycling the Trini saying "like hog luv mud" and responding to
Recycle a Saying (Poetry and Flash Fiction with Magaly)

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Revisit
Welcome to Monday WRites
13 February 2015
13 February 2016


Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th February, Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, year 2017

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MUD MAS
Early Monday morning, and de mud mas come out
An every body who is any body watching
How de mas showoff, walking 'bout
Like he own the road, de road is he own
But wat yuh expect? early Monday, when de mas come out
More whine than a winery could distill
An more mud than a pig with ah snout
Could slobber in ah lifetime
Jouvert, jouvert Monday without a doubt
Dutty smiling mud mas day
Earlier than the sun, de mud mas come out
MUD MAS © gillena cox 2016

Glossary
de - the
'bout - about
he own - his
An - And
wat - what
yuh - you
ah - a
Jouvert - starts the Carnival at pre dawn, traditionally, its very messy costuming. (mud, paint and in recent years chocolate covered bodies gyrate to early morning rhythms)
Dutty - Dirty



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Linking also to
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Welcome to Monday WRites

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Monday
with daring goes
the jouvert reveller
a descent into primal self
road spree
© gillena cox

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