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Today's mosiac 'Masking Up 2022 😊 selfies.  

Wearing the mask is now the wearer's choice. From 17th July, the mandate for wearing the mask in public has been removed, here in Trinidad and Tobago. I continue to wear my mask in public and so far wherever i go when i leave home, people are still wearing the mask.

A Jigzone puzzle to play online - 6 pieces
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 Welcome to Monday WRites # 357

To mask or not to mask

You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧well this is  Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

If you have a Monday post at your blog you can share at the linky. There is no prompt. All that's required is that your post is a Monday post

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QUADRILLE WRAPThe air is cool. Smoky clouds enwrap a moon,  one of  the larger ones. The kind you look at and wonder how come the night lamp is there and you never noticed it.
a super mooni wrap my dreams knowingthis night ceases© gillena cox 2022

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITHQuadrille 156 

 Mosaic Monday #184: Going for the Goats

REVISIT

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SHARE A MONDAY POST

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[Photo prompt courtesy imaginary garden]


THIS MASK
What's behind these hazel eyes, sigh!
years added up,
scored sixty-eight,
with moons, some blue.

The mask is a beauty aid, sigh!
merely to wear,
only minutes,
pause and refresh;

Once that mask is removed then, yeah!
for worth of care,
tis fresh new mien,
hey world out there;

Watch out, for life's worth living, yeah!
dashing, daring,
diva, demure,
today's a dare.
THIS MASK © gillena cox 2018


Revisit
7 April 2017
7 April 2015
Four Movements_Mask
Behind The_Mask


Blog hopping today with imaginary garden. In April we write a poem every day

Camera FLASH! ~ The April Edition
Prompted by Kerry Oconnor

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[Phantom of the Opera Venetian Masquerade Mask from google dot com]

FOUR MOVEMENTS _ MASK
I
The mask shows
It tells
There's never the lie

II
A sinister power dared to show
The mask of soul allowed to agent

For too small is ego
And too large is spirit

Yet mask of go-between
Perfect in its application


III
Spa day, we peel and daub
In doll house feminine
Transforming stress to dust of dust


IV
Bigger than the phoenix
The fire risen in depths
Of passion
The phantom and the dance of life
Plays on
FOUR MOVEMENTS _ MASK © gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Masks


Enjoy the music

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BEHIND THE MASK
A smile to mask the pain of betrayal
When all else fails that smile supports
The shaky foundation of swirling waters
Eddying far beyond the heel of shore

When all else fails that smile supports
The rib cage that trust warrants depart
All that's holding soul to shell to soul
Is that determined refusal of drowning

The shaky foundation of swirling waters
With jaws agape enough to rips to shreds
Hope of belonging in faith of journeying
Hidden in the hurt that smothers living

Eddying far beyond the heel of shore
Horizons dim in misty rainbows sunken
Losing hues in watery spasms cajoling
A smile to mask the pain of betrayal
BEHIND THE MASK © gillena cox 2016


Blog hopping today at

Prompt Nights
On Popular Demand – Life is a masquerade. You never know who might be hiding behind a mask or facade – [10]

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[video choice today]