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SONGS OF A JUKEBOX

Do they have this unique song in the jukebox

Once for the anointing twice for the fox  

Who's wiser than a legacy 

Who can outrun his destiny 

There comes a time then 

At goodbye o'clock when 

All we desire is that rest of peace

SONGS OF A JUKEBOX © gillena cox 2021

Paying tribute today to my mother who died last Wednesday and was cremated yesterday. Here are some poems, shared here in the past, written with her in mind.

Spicy Sorts
St Georges to Port of Spain
Coconut Fudge
There beside The Sea
First Woman Blood

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Monday WRites 305

Today's mosaics: Bananas fruiting in the backyard

green lean

bananas seen

fruiting in the backyard

this kind is for the cooking pot

yes soon

Bananas - A Cinquain © gillena cox 2021

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 REVISIT
in a New Banana Town 2017
banana fronds sway 2016
in a Banana Leaf 2021

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Mosaic Monday: #138: Jiggin' It in June

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'How Does My Garden Grow' - Mosaics of Caladium and Dieffenbachia and Spider Lily

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28 June 2017

spider lily 2020

spider lily 2019

A pink supermoon wanders, in her realm of sky

She looms large, as ripe as a rosy mango

The night lingers with her cozy sigh;

Who will contest her blooming down below?

She muses, she wanders in her realm of sky

The night is cool in a solstice saucer;

What says the whispers of Spider lilies? aye...

As her slender petals mimic meteor stars;

Should she raise her eyelashes to those on high

Or saunter on the night breeze as prayer on wings

While supermoon wanders in her realm of sky

SPIDER LILY - A FOLD POEM© gillena cox 2021

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[image courtesy DVerse] 

Ernest Hemingway quote : When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.

–The Garden of Eden (started in 1946 but published in 1986)

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Apples give that crunch to being eaten

And soup you can slurp but never chew

How are trees so deeply rooted the grow

Down and up and never touch the sky

Only in dreams are the  pink blossoms of Poui brighter

And cliffs I stay away from, for i am afraid of heights

© gillena cox 2021

Yesterday's prompt at Dverse written for today's open link session

Open Link Night #295 – Midsummer Live
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24June 2020

24June 2019 beautiful self 2017/a>

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what right have those morning birds in their frenzied whistling

to nudge me out of my slumber comfort  zone shrieking their chants of

exercise being the right way to start your day, really!!!

RIGHT AND EASY -  A Sijo © gillena cox 2021

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what's right 2015
go easy 2019
easy to find2019

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 Today's mosaic shows a legal notice for curfew hours on 19th and 20th June 2021; Butler  statue in Fyzabad Trinidad and a newspaper clipping about the Public holiday Labour Day in 2021 Lockdown, here in Trinidad and Tobago.

Newspaper clipping and legal notice i got from friends via What's App. The Butler statue image is from the internet

Labour Day, a public holiday here in Trinidad and Tobago, falls on  19 June,  compared to other countries around the world. This date was chosen to commemorate the Fyzabad Labour uprising which happened  in 1937. This event sparked the modern day trade union movement in Trinidad and Tobago.

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#137: Where Our Past Is Present

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Labour Day 2017
Labour Day 2016
Labour Day 2010

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21 June 2018

21 June 2017

21 June 2016

Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago used to be a very high energy celebration time, (that was before COVID 19)

images from the internet used for the next two mosaics

I read  in June 2017. 'The Chieftain's Carnival And Other Stories' written by Michael Anthony. One of the short stories - 'Butler on the Road' is about the struggle prior to this holiday, of Fyzabad and the hero, Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler .

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downtown 2018
now 2021
enentide 2021