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[image courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

There stars are out

No one cares a hoot

Its movie night and 

Our couch is comfy

Bring on the popcorn

Extra butter is best 

Eyes pop at the bizzare

Hands will cover eyes

At some point even though

They are greasy and salty

© gillena cox 2023

 

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 406

A HAPPY AUGUST TO ALL

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). 

 

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[found this poem  online  at The Guardian - poem of the week]

 ENJOY.

Interlude by Amy Lowel(1874-1925)

When I have baked white cakes

And grated green almonds to spread on them;

When I have picked the green crowns from the strawberries

And piled them, cone-pointed, in a blue and yellow platter;

When I have smoothed the seam of the linen I have been working;

What then?

To-morrow it will be the same:

Cakes and strawberries,

And needles in and out of cloth

If the sun is beautiful on bricks and pewter,

How much more beautiful is the moon,

Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree;

The moon

Wavering across a bed of tulips;

The moon,

Still,

Upon your face.

You shine, Beloved,

You and the moon.

But which is the reflection?

The clock is striking eleven.

I think, when we have shut and barred the door,

The night will be dark

Outside.

For every Monday in August the Word is CLOTH Link up with one of your  posts where the word  CLOTH is present or the theme CLOTH is presented

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 Memory Sweet

Then sunlight smiles to treetops bright

And birds from morning clouds alight

Sweet songs on air

No melody so near

Than that one of my heart last night

© gillena cox 2023

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 [Van Gogh image courtesy dVerse poetry pub]

Aroma of a sautee lingers

On night breezes;

Layers of romance lighted

By moon not at all shy.

Peeled away like an onion,

Desire waned, to succumb

To heart's solution;

Of not what is, but ought to be.

Storing your embrace to memories,

I turn from onion

To matryoshka dolls,

Treasuring every sequence.

© gillena cox 2023

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[I used kente cloth images from the internet to put together this mosaic]

Kente comes from the word kenten, which means "basket" in the Asante dialect of the Akan language, referencing its basket-like pattern. In Ghana, the Akan ethnic group also refers to kente as nwentoma, meaning "woven cloth".

Kente is more than just a cloth. It is an iconic visual representation of the history, philosophy, ethics, oral literature, religious belief, social values, and political thought of West Africa. Kente is exported as one of the key symbols of African heritage and pride in African ancestry throughout the diaspora [kente info from the internet]

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emancipation 

ripe with history and fashion -

a holiday time

Cooperation: peaceful relations, cultural exchanges, good trading practices; we all want this in Trinidad & Tobago and for the wider world. 

Here in Trinidad & Tobago we are in Emancipation celebration mode. There are festival activities happening all around us. 

Parades; drumming, dancing, theatre, religious devotions, and feasting;

and on August 1st the public holiday - Emancipation Day. 

she wears festive  clothes

off to camp with her lunch box

my sweet granddaughter

A high point of the celebration is afro-centric fashion displayed and worn at home,  in offices,  schools and events.

Into all of this we have with us as distinguished guests the From Ghana the royals: Prince Nana Poku Agyeman; Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asante King, Ghana and their entourage.

© gillena cox 2023

 

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 405

LAST MONDAY OF

 JULY

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). 

 

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For every Monday in August the Word is CLOTH Link up with one of your  posts where the word  CLOTH is present or the theme CLOTH is presented

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Today last Monday of July you can link with 'dance' or with 'cloth'

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[Fireworks over Port of Spain, Trinidad from google dot com]

 APPRECIATION FILLING

Hunger is such a wasteful occupation

A useless penny on the sidewalk

A penny for your thoughts echoes worthless care

Appreciation throws itself into fits of

Falling kudos like night sky fireworks

Flattery wider than oohs and aahs

Take care not to surrender your thirst

To muddied water stagnant like a toad

Squelching underfoot the sound

 Of wooden sapats when children walk gingerly

Over the mud a plank spans thoughts

Ripe for making of wise decisions 

Eat slowly from the bowl of knowledge

Hunger is such a wasteful occupation 

© gillena cox 2023

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[María Berrío, Closed Geometry, 2022, paper collage and watercolor on linen; courtesy dVerse poetry

pub]

 
 

UNREQUITED 

She lay there like a  paper doll

Cast to a windy day

All resolve is spoken in the colour pink

And consciousness knows no kindness

How many rocks need be stationed

To the rigors of love unrequited

How many hearts smashed on the altar of 

Fruitless strawberry bushes

Should she stay there bruised

Like grapes underfoot

Like garbage strewn

Like an eight day week

UNREQUITED © gillena cox 2023

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[image from google]

 There at the very edge of longing

A glass of water pursued her lips

Ruby like bunched grapes

From a compote hanging

What is it to quench perseverance

Purposed of passion's desire

It is but a glass of water

In the middle of reverence 

© gillena cox 2023

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 404

 Happy Month of July

Lets dance in the month of July

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). 

 

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“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”  — John Dryden

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For every Monday this July the Word is 'DANCE' Link up with one of your  posts where the word 'dance' is present or the theme dance is presented