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[Image by Hannah Timms, courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Just Once

Once in a lifetime, the fog will be kind 

to you, 

absorbing love laughter and too, pain

like a smokey dragon, 

inhaling instead of exhailing, 

so much so, 

your mind is muddled to a squash, 

delicious only if cooked to right consistency, but leaving you 

absent of the hunger needed for a repast, 

then you realise 

without the hunger, the anguish and the longing

for what isn't 

you lose nothing.

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

 Poetics: Once In A Lifetime 

 ‘The Window’  by .Mary Jean Chan here

Challenge: Re-read and explore Chan’s poem,  particularly the use of line breaks and caesura to build rhythm and evoke emotion, and the three-word movement: “anger is like the sun, which is like love”.

Now write a poem in the first person, beginning with "Once in a lifetime"

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AUGUST IS STEELPAN MONTH 

HRRE IN T&T🇹🇹 

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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[moko jumbies welcome us to a Sunday Queens Hall performance🇹🇹  December 2025]

 SERENDIPITY

Who would be calling me this hour

It wasn't an inappropiate time of day

Just, i wasn't expecting anyone 

To call me this Sunday

Hi how are you, i answer

Fine she answers

Just had some plumbing problem

But that's sorted out

Good i answer

So would you be interested

In going to the performance 

this evening at Queens Hall

I couldn't believe my ears

Its a show i had wanted to go to

This has to be my Christmas miracle

Yes, yes yes, my voice echoed

I have two tickets she chimed in

I can pay for one, i retorted

Having had lunch

It was just about getting dressed

And waiting for her to pick me up

What a treat

Great singing voices, 

I had been enjoying for years

Presenting a local version of 

The Nativity story complete with

Enough fun and laughter

What a treat!

© gillena cox 2026

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

  Poetics: Borrowing Bishop 

Challenge: to incorporate poet Elizabeth Bishop’s poetics - accuracy (detail), spontaneity (immediacy), and mystery (revelation) to write an original poem for  today's submit

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🇹🇹 Moko jumbies welcome - for the performance of  'De Chile Fadder'  by the Lydian Singers, Dec 2025