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Today's mosaic - Highlighting Shadows [photos from my archive, all photos taken in St James Trinidad]

If you don't have any shadows 

You're not in the light

--Lady Gaga

If you face the light

Shadows will always be 

behind you

-- Sukant Ratnakar

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 353

June, and the rains are here. A Happy month of June 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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Mosaic Monday #180: Sweat, Tears or the Sea

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Quadrille #154: Casting a Poetic Spell

ALL EXCEPT SHE

Ready for the spelling bee

Her wings stuck tight

Her eyes bright

Her mind clear

Oh Dear

Where can her words be

Her team mates not nervous

They need be verbous

The contest starts now

All except...

Oh where 

Oh where

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[image from the internet]

Listen to a voiced version of 'Star of the Morning'

You can Read 'Star of the Morning' -- first posted HERE

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Open Link Night #318, June Live Edition

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[Peder Severin Krøyer, Hip, Hip, Hurrah courtesy dVerse]

 BIRTHDAYS THAT WAY

Hip hip hurrah, the way birthdays appear

There again and again

Repeatedly like a cheer

Sometimes boisterous some times tame

Come raise a glass,  the way birthdays appear

Sneaking in with face lines

And bodies shaped like pear

With streamers and buntings

And friends ever so dear

To eat cake in slices

Circles around the sun, the way birthdays appear 

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[Today's mosiac - Fruit on the table]

 © gillena cox 2022

A Jigzone puzzle to fit online (6 pieces)

 

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 352

June, and the rains are here. A Happy month of June 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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[image courtesy dVerse Poets]

wild fowl haven,

sunlight slithers over the water.

 to browse her weight in hyacinths,

 the lazy caiman rolls her eyes,

 just above the surface of the water,

 munching her greed water fodder,

oblivious to duck ponds and audience stares.

what a sleepy dreamy life.

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 351

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Grackle image from the GOOGLE

BLACK FEATHERS BUT NOT A COVIDAE

Video phone talk with a Crow:

Caw caw caw

And the same to you

Caw caw caw

If you talk prepare to walk

Strut strut strut

You look like a drunken sailor

Strut strut strut

You must be like Mork

Alien alien alien

Your eyes are yellow

Alien alien alien

Held in a gawk?

Dumb-beak  dumb-beak  dumb-beak

Black beak feathers feet?

Dumb-beak dumb-beak dumb-beak 

No need to squawk

That's because i'm a grackle

Hear that crow guy

That's because i'm a grackle

Are you a hawk

I live in Trinidad and Tobago!!!

Grackle !!!!!

I live in Trinidad and Tobago!!!

Well No need to squawk

beep beep beep

He hung up 

Beep beep  rude guy!!!

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Video phone talk with a Crow:

If you talk prepare to walk

You must be like Mork

Held in a gawk?

No need to squawk

 Beep beep  rude guy...he hung up!!!

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NOTE: Grackles and Crows belong to different families; grackles are icterids while crows are corvids. Crows are also generally larger and heavier than grackles and have different colored eyes.

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[Today's mosiac pink ixoras in my garden]

Hot days await the cooling rains. The sound of pelting raindrops on the rooftop. Season of smoky clouds and flooded streets. We are still waiting for the rain though the Met Office has confirmed the season. 

People of long time days didn't look to the Met Office. Every avid Christian marked the Season of Rains with the planting of pigeon peas and corn at Corpus Christi holiday.

today just a tease

raindrops against the windows -

pink ixoras bloom

© gillena cox 2022

#In Trinidad and Tobago our Seasons are Rainy Season And Dry Season: no winter, spring, summer autumn.

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Welcome to Monday WRites # 350

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