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 An Inhertitance

Large pumpkins heavy like alien suns lay sprawled in the patch of garden. The old farm house had been neglected for too many moons. This was the perfect time to regain her inheritance. She had roamed the country far and wide here is where she belonged.

Halloween was fast approaching. She opened the creaking door of the wooden barn. This place needs a coat of paint she mused. She checked her carving knives. All that she needed was hère.

Pushing her hands in her pocket she pulled out the last stick of gum, carefully unwrapped it and stuck it in her mouth and began to chew. You cannot pluck moonlight to bring in your pocket, she mused. Mmn this taste like apple.

© gillena cox 2023

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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Prosery: The Voice of Helen Hoyt

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 415

Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Spell

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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Five Lines In A Copybook

On the first line i will write my name.

Teacher ask for date;

Day, month and year,

Followed by subject;

Maybe my address should be next.

Second line question:

What year is it?

To tell all will be to expose

My age,  though i have no qualms there.

My house is in the country.

Third line will be poetry,

Written with a capital P,

About yellow hills,

Painting a canvas of small words;

No 52 on the road where i live.

The secrets of line four of this Chaguanas girl,

Will soon be exposed to 

All in the class room,

Reading aloud to some snickers,

All in a day's English class.

The fifth and final line

Summons applause like

A limerick written to shake

The earth under a rose bush miles away

Here in San Juan; we students had planted

© gillena cox 2023

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas

 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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MTB: Writing The Five Directions

CHALLENGE to write a poem in five stanzas of five lines per stanza (quintain)write as a Pentastich Quintain (unregulated rhyme, meter etc)each stanza is one of five ways to your house (real or imaginary)can be literal or metaphorical, measured in time, direction, etc or a mixthe title is your own choice but must begin: “Five…………”include a reference to Hererra’s poem somewhere in your post,  include references to Herrerra’s poem by including the follow words in order in each of my stanzas: 1 yellow hills; 2 canvas door; 3 the earth; 4 desert secrets 5 a name.

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[Image from pixaby]

Reply to Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Confetti Sky  - A Fold

Caught; a handful of magic in mittened hand,

Softly and gently some touched my cheek,

They came to me without wave of wand,

Snowflakes seen for very first time,

Out of pale blue sky, magic in mittened hand;

Called to witness this divine confetti,

I almost swoon as they land,

Light as a feather tired of sailing,

I agree, snowflakes are little poems grand,

Written on the wind for all to see,

Happy tourist i, magic in mittened hand.

© gillena cox 2023

And after understanding today's prompt

A Reply To 'Caged Bird by Maya Angelou'

Bird songs to a new dawn

Stir the sleeper to rise

Like clockwork the sky erupts

Whistles thrills and rhythm

Behind thin bars a pet bird yawns

His name unknow yet surmise

The life that would interrupt

Whistles thrills and rhythm

© gillena cox 2023

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas

 hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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Poetics: Dead Poets Society

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Photo first posted HERE

There in the underbrush,

Red like lips of a diva parting;

This plant called 'hot lips'. 

The eco-guide tells us the legend:

A young man unprompted,

With his lips touch it;

The love of a woman he desires,

Surely truely will be his.

© gillena cox 2023

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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dVerse — Q185 Brush the Dust Off

THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 414

Happy October

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Wave

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).  

 REVISIT TO READ

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one ant

 my straying thoughts
now return focus on
the storyline; a paperback
novel
© gillena cox 2002
This cinquain First pisted HERE 

ENJOY THE MUSIC 

Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas

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Open Link Night #347

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 Wise And Wanton: a Fold

Lets bridge the ocean with rays,

Curved as reflections of the rain;

Lets write a fairy tale in the ways

Seekers hope for more treasure,

Then span ripples of ocean with rays;

Timely and memorable like history,

Colourful and garish like those days

When everything goes haywire;

And only words spoken can phrase,

Intentions for solutions to end mayhem;

Then connect across ocean with rays

© gillena cox 2023

How to construct The Fold Poem HERE and HERE and HERE

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas

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Poetics: Building bridges

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September Seasons: a haibun

I remember from school days, growing up;  a weather verse with a line "September remember"

I read about and marvel of the autumn/September equinox: derived from the Latin aequinoctium, from aequus (equal) and nox (genitive noctis, plural noctium) (of the equal nights). On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.

heat wave here -

jugs of cucumber water

healthy option

 September 23rd and its another season of Trini Christmas music. One hundred day of it, to be exact; hosted by our 'Sweet 100.1 FM' radio station. I am locked on.

Parang, soca parang, christmas calypsoes and laced in,  some of the international traditional ones. But, the emphasis is Trini songs and music.

cooking roti

i dance to the music from

my red radio

© gillena cox 2023

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Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is in ongoing.

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Haibun Monday 9-25-23: Equinox

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 413

Last Monday this September. Hope you had a nice September

Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are still experiencing a Heat Wave

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).  

 REVISIT TO READ

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NOW FOR THE MONDAY WRITES LINKY

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

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