Monday WRites 323

November is here. Happy  month of November to all visiting. 

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).

Welcome to Monday WRites # 323: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Mosaic Monday #153: The Village of Tyuonyi

AND

 Blue Monday: Day of The Dead

AND

Closing in on the end of 2021

To write a quadrille using the prompted word - careen

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Quadrille - Careen

This year swiftly steals by enmasked.

Still hidden are smiles to public guise

We careen felled by a virus 

Unpredictable as the internet

Cruel as an angry storm 

Our unsteady wobbly legs learned

That walking was a gift of  

Going places and getting up close

. © gillena cox 2021

A JigZone Puzzle to fit Online 6 Pieces

REVISIT
01 November 2017
01 November 2016
The bewitching night is over"

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky-All Saints Day II

...image from google dot com

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WHORL OF ZINNIA PETALS - A Fold Poem

The zinnias were single whorled

They were pretty pinks and bright

Back in the day when i was a child

How i loved  too the orange bursts.

Our zinnias were single whorled

The Barbados Pride and the Vandas

The variety of colour always heeded

Reds, purples, and sunny yellows

A bouquet in which i ever reveled

Days of pulling out weeds by hand 

My zinnias were single whorled

 WHORL OF ZINNIA PETALS © gillena cox 2021

NOTE
How to construct The Fold Poem HERE and HERE

REVISIT

28 October 2016

days of our childhood

back into childhood days

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Weekly Scribblings #93: Kid Stuff

AND

Open Link Night #303

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Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

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DUODORA - SOME TRUTH

Humbly  humbly

Bow creativity

Curtains rise and fall

Drama takes mid stage

Lies are not fiction

Creativity needs loud applauding

Off with your heads spirits of the untruth

Humbly  humbly

Those grinning skeletons 

 Sorry excuses

Imperfect species

Oh for Suzi's sake!

Take responsibility right the wrongs

Forsooth just sweeten the pot with some truth

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

27 October 2015

Halloween treats 2017

a sloppy floppy Halloween tale

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Halloweeny Humans

Challenged to  write A Duodora :

a quatorzain made up of 2 septets.

syllabic,  4/6/5/5/5/10/10 syllables per line.

rhymed Axxxxxb Axxxxxb L1 is repeated as a refrain that begins the 2nd stanza. x is unrhymed.

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Monday WRites 321

 Today's mosaic a photo and  water colour painting. Sky Over The Falls

 

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).

Welcome to Monday WRites # 321: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday #152: The Land of Enchantment

AND

Haibun Monday 10-25-21: Fear

Challenge - to  write a haibun

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HAIBUN - FEAR

My heart thumps the wildest, when the earth shakes

the slightest tremor, the loudest quake. Seconds of life slip away. To where i retreat, my mind leaves

no trace. Like dying again and again, without the preps for the surgeon's knife. 

The knives, bombs, guns, that anger and hatred dish out to  the starving appetite of war,

via mass media, be it fact be it  fictions. Those stories i can live without. Such are the violent events that bring terror to my heart. 

There is fear too in loneliness, but there, challenges for joy in solitude reward the willing learner.

sometimes the dawn

lingers too long in absence

of bird whistles

© gillena cox 2021

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REVISIT
25 October 2016
wallsclosing in
taste and see

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Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON

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Image from Pinterest

Then Came The Pandemic Locknut

Humans hiding why should we care?

Something's amiss way over there

In lockdown ?

All of the doors shut and bolted?

And the window views assorted?

A lockbox!

Is that how the blue planet is?

Measuring distances gee whiz!

Sure lockout!

They are dealing with health issues?

Is there a shortage of tissues?

A locksmith?

Why would they be in need of him

When scientist have made vaccines?

Their lockset.

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

lockdown...1
lockdown...2

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Poetry Form: Compound Word Verse

Challenged to  write A Compound Word Verse. Poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith that consists of five 3-line stanzas, for a total of 15 lines. The last line of each stanza ends in a compound word and these compound words share a common stem word which is taken from the title. The Compound Word Verse (3 lines) has a set rhyme scheme and meter as follows: Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b Syllable/Meter: 8, 8, 3

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Monday WRites 320

image courtesy dVerse

 

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).

Welcome to Monday WRites # 320: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Quadrille night: ashes to ashes

Challenged to  Write a quadrille which included any form of the word ash

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Her ashen countenance, matched well her fear; 

Perched at her scared window view.

What was the matter,

With the day's overcast was, its silence.

No words spoken in warning to anyone,

Just this ominous hue,

Of lies already told, not now to be repeated.

 A Halloween Dread © gillena cox 2021

REVISIT
18 October 2017
...with ashes
...ashes might soothe...

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Four Stanzas of Grey voiced by gillena cox 

First posted HERE

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Open Link Night Go live with  

REVISIT

  14 October 2015 

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Link to Sweetest 100 Days of Christmas in T&T HERE HAPPY SEASON