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[image from the internet]

BACK THEN - AUGUST 

August claimed to its fame

The name August Vacation

Even if schools closed in July

The longest school closing 

Following on its heels was

The new school term

Going to a new class 

With the smell of new books

The fortunate kids flew to

America, regardless of which state

Back at school they boasted

They went to America

Stay-at-home vacationers

Pelted mangoes, papered books

Spent time in the country by gran

And returned to school fattened

© gillena cox 2022

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITHPoetics: Sometimes August isn’t recognized

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[image courtesy dVerse]

LOOKING UP WAY UP

 I look up to blue skies smoking white clouds puffy, to a map of sunlight glistening here, while her sisters weep in torrential monsoon rains. 

 Is it because the moon dances her way into ripeness that the stars twinkle in delight of cobalt nights and coquettish surrender?

 Winsome are dreams of little girls who wait in tiredness for sugar plum fairies. Best they wait instead for charitable tooth fairies who leave small treasures behind. 

Daylight greets trees leafy green, even if the rains have left droplets to create tiny rainbows at their edges. 

 

green mangoes dangle -

 boys will have to wait awhile

 for their ripening

© gillena cox 2022

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 Welcome to Monday WRites # 358

ITS  holiday in Trinidad and Tobago today

HAPPY EMANCIPATION DAY

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). 

If you have a Monday post at your blog you can share at the linky. There is no prompt. All that's required is that your post is a Monday post

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITHHaibun Monday: Look Up!

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SAY  NOW

 Now however is the time

 Time stays still for our words 

Words preserve the yesterday 

Yesterday contained in a poem 

 Poem today sunny and bright 

Bright allamandas the hedge adorn 

Adorn your syllables to the music 

Music the retort of dawn's presence 

 Presence of harbingers 

Harbingers announcing another day 

Day comes with adventure 

Adventure far beyond knowing 

 Knowing nothing of the future 

Future the scientists provoke 

Provoke the climate to change 

Change and flow we must now 

© gillena cox 2022

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 

Poetry Form: Loop Poetry

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Today's mosiac 'Masking Up 2022 😊 selfies.  

Wearing the mask is now the wearer's choice. From 17th July, the mandate for wearing the mask in public has been removed, here in Trinidad and Tobago. I continue to wear my mask in public and so far wherever i go when i leave home, people are still wearing the mask.

A Jigzone puzzle to play online - 6 pieces
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 Welcome to Monday WRites # 357

To mask or not to mask

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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QUADRILLE WRAPThe air is cool. Smoky clouds enwrap a moon,  one of  the larger ones. The kind you look at and wonder how come the night lamp is there and you never noticed it.
a super mooni wrap my dreams knowingthis night ceases© gillena cox 2022

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITHQuadrille 156 

 Mosaic Monday #184: Going for the Goats

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LISTEN TO BATTYMAMSELLE : this was also read today at ONL 21.07.22

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FEATHERED CHOREOGRAPHY

There they stood 

She in her white lace and he

In his suit of endless eyes 

Both had their beauty tamed

Tucked away as they pecked 

At bowls of feed 

We glanced at them

Waiting for arrogant displays

But we got none of that

They were hungry so it seemed

Or maybe in a peckish mood 

So we lost interest in them

But further along the path

Under a big shady tree

Another male he alone

Would fill our request for awe

This peacock fanned out

His endless eyed feathered display

And we stood rivited and watched him

FEATHERED CHOREOGRAPHY  © gillena cox 2022

 BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Dverse – Poetics – Fractals – Down the Rabbit Hole and Up, Up, and Away

My poem is a response to the challenge to

1) Use any of the definitions, examples, images, or application of fractals to inspire you to write whatever strikes your fancy.

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