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Just around the corner is the calypsonian
The kaiso man; guitar strumming, pan beating,
Heart smiling, teasing singer-man.

Everybody's business, is his business.
Politician, hornerman, priest and warner woman prophetess.
Listen to the calypso man.
He, better than reading any newspaper.

He, is who tells all.
Sordid, witty, serious or risque.
He, tells all, all.
Yeah for Octobers !
If only to remember the old greats, the sing-it-all griots of old.
© gillena cox 2021

#Calypso music first emerged in the eighteenth century in Trinidad among communities of African slaves. The musical style was an evolution of West African kaiso, and the satirical lyrics often mocked slave masters through double entendre.

#See also at google  : A Brief History of Calypso Music - 2021 - MasterClass

#hornerman = illicit lover

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Weekly Scribblings #90: October

Challenged: for this week’s prompt to be inspired by this quote:"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers!” 

REVISIT
October gem...

ENJOY THE MUSIC

Link to the Sweetest 100 Days Of Christmas
HERE

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Eric Eustace Williams(1911 - 1981 ) image from google

Father of this nation

Your words still echo 

To the children shut in

Because of the Covid 19

That their book bags carry

The future of a society

That is T&T

Tap your key boards young ones

Zoom your home-works

Pay attention to your studies

He must be smiling over them.

© gillena cox 2021

"On your scholastic development, the salvation of the Nation is dependent…you carry the future of [the Nation] in your school bags.”  -  Eric Eustace Williams. First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

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Poetics – Exploring the genre of Panegyric Poetry (Come dip your toes in)

REVISIT
5 October 2020
5 October 2015
backto school 2021

Link to the Sweetest 100 Days Of Christmas
HERE

Monday WRites 318

 

A 2015 photo used for today's mosiac.... Hello October!!! 
 

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

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Mosaic Monday #150: Farewell, September!

AND

 

Quadrille # 137: Throwing Poem Stones

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Quadrille # 137: Throwing Poem Stones

Along a stony path a mocking bird skips

Stopping now and then when her beak dips

Insects caught between crevasses

Hinder  not her hunger, she passes

Gingerly knowing there they live 

Her feathers a preening she will give 

Thence evening roosting flight her motive 

© gillena cox 2021

A JigZone Puzzle to fit Online 6 Pieces

REVISIT
4 October 2017
4 October 2016
...
ENJOY THE MUSIC:   Parang (Trinidad)

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

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Impression by Claude Monet from google dot com

TO EVERY SEASON

Bird songs: a raucous time before sunrise

Advent: coloured candles in the wreath lit Sundays before Christmas

Pandemic world: everyone is coaxed into taking the vaccine  

Anticipation does have its season.

© gillena cox 2021

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Weekly Scribblings #89: Keeping It Real

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REVISIT

29 September 2020 

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ENJOY THE MUSIC

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

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COLD BEER

Beer

B b b b beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold 

Best cold cold c o l d

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold beer

Cooooold

Cooooold

Cooooold beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold colder coldest

B b b b beer

On these hot

Hot ot ot ot days

Rag mop any spills

Cold Beer!!!

© gillena cox 2021

#Here in Trinidad and Tobago we are in a hot spell right now Hot Spell Watch I

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Whens Your Birthday???

Prompt

Use the link provided above to find out the #1 hits for every year you’ve celebrated your birthday.  

Choose at least one #1 hit and include it, using the exact wording of the song’s title, in your poem. Be sure to credit the song(s) and artist(s) at the end of your poem. You may or may not choose to share the year of the song….but do share the date!

I used - Rag Mop Ames Brothers#1 in the US 1950

M

I say M-O

M-O-P

M-O-P-P

Mop

M-O-P-P 

Mop Mop Mop Mop

R

I say R-A ...Rest of the lrics here

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ENJOY THE MUSIC:   Parang (Trinidad)

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

Monday WRites 317

September, we are still in the Rainy Season and its hot hot. The Meteorological Service Division (MSD) is warning of extreme hot conditions for Trinidad and Tobago for the next three to four days. A product of the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service Hot Spell Watch I
 

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

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Mosaic Monday #149: Golden Days of Autumn

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Haibun Monday 9-27-21: Writer’s Block

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The page is white. The page is lined. The page is made for writing on. Pencil, pen, markers will do. 

Oh!  Did i mention the page is lined. Guess i did. Who am i kidding. I have nothing going on up in my head. So the page is white with lines.

I should write something. Or maybe not today. Maybe tomorrow. When the moon wanes in the morning sky. Not a bad start to something.

What will it be? That nice new clear see through ball point. Blue ink. I remember specifically asking for blue ink.  Oh well there's always tomorrow when a poem rears its beautiful head.

blank page 

an ant  makes it's freeway walk -

poetry

© gillena cox 2021

A JigZone Puzzle to fit Online 6 Pieces

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26 September 2017
26 September 2016
a page stares...
ENJOY THE MUSIC:   Parang (Trinidad)

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

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image from google

CORONA COCOON

To dawn i bow in deep respect

The action of hope in effect

 Again engines are rumbling 

The wheels of industry turning

Traffic jams in the streets piling

Return to old can we accept

The new normal landed for sure

Oh it was so quiet before

When we hid in our homes or

Just stayed indoors because we wept

Family and friends swept away

A wave called corona keeps all at bay

Yet  with vaccine and caution may

We creep out of cocoon adept

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT
23 September 2017
23 September 2015

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Poetry Form Zéjel 

Prompt to write a poem in the Zéjel form

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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