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Thursday, July 15, 2021

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CHANT OF PANDEMIC DAYS

You can pocket space like gold coins

Hear the silence drop in your pockets and jingle

For the street are bare of crowds

The streets are bare of noisy jostle

The streets are bare of grackles on the side walk

The doors to the bars are shut, closed, bolted

The doors to the clothes shops are are shut, closed, bolted

The doors to the schools are shut, closed, bolted

The housewives prefer to hide

The children prefer to hide

The rains still fall

The clouds still puff out

The morning birds still sing

The Covid 19 virus was happier yesterday

The Covid 19 virus came out to play

The Covid 19 virus morphs and morphs

Still the humans hide away making

Masks

Vaccines

Videos

Music

Protocols

You can pocket space like gold coins

Hear the silence drop in your pockets and jingle

Jingle for health

Jingle for another day dawning

Jingle for a battle, Covid 19 the war is on!

CHANT OF PANDEMIC DAYS © gillena cox 2021

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Poetics: Meet the bar with Chant poetry

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15 July 2020

15 July 2019

15 July 2017

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

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GILLENA COX GARDEN PHOTOS 2021

The rains, the rains, oh dear the rains

Language of lushness speaks vociferously

So many appearances so much gains

Caladiums spread like elephant ears

Season of torrents, oh dear the rains

Green's a colour verdant and unremorseful

Weeds and cultivars jostle without pains

Caterpillars long gone to moth wing nights

And flowers open for butterfly gains

Happy is the garden in season so wet

Soil, drunk on heaven's tears, oh dear the rains

GARDEN - A FOLD © gillena cox 2021

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Monday, July 12, 2021

Monday WRites 306

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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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 #306: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Quadrille 131 – with Brian Miller

Monday, July 5, 2021

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

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 #305: A Happy Monday to all. Be Safe.

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Mosaic Monday

Mosaic Monday: #138: Jiggin' It in June

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Monday, June 28, 2021

Monday WRites 304

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

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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).

Here in T&T, we are still in a state of emergency and locked down in trying to 'flatten the curve' Vaccinations are continuing