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the parang songs-
playing on the radio
heralding Christmas
© gillena cox 2020

[Christmas Around The Corner - poster paints ] 

MUSEUM MODE

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[image from google dot com]


again the dry earth -
stomp of paranderos' feet
with the rains gone
© gillena cox 2017



Note
1.
Parang Music
2.
Paranderos - Singers of Parang music



Blog Hopping today with

Carpe Diem #1314 The Nightingale

the quatrain prompt from Kristjaan is:

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows?
© Omar Khayyam (Tr. FitzGerald)


Enjoy The Music



Revisit
28 November 2015
28 November 2013
28 November 2012

1997

22 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS

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[another in my newsprint series 'Parang Gifts 'using gouache watercolour paints]

the parang singer -
remembering Daisy who
has left us her songs
© gillena cox 2016




Blog hopping today at
Week39 Year 6

AND


Carpe Diem
##1084 Serenade (Schubert)

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Trending September Day 26

no summers
just Caribbean breezes
no winters either

fallen blossoms
on the paved walk

leaf cutter ants
they have a mind of their own
carrying cuttings

some faithful ladies arrange
vases for their church altar

automatic doors -
the intimated welcome
to grocery shoppers

persistent honking of horns
Sunday cooking gas sellers

polling day
the longest lines
for stained fingers

delicious! watermelons
did i mention, the red team won

kiskadee
this bird singing out its name
kis ka ke ee ee

as if the night was too long
an earth tremor before dawn

fragments of peace -
one aeroplane flying high
two grackles low

in the cooling of evening
to sit on the back steps nice

caterpillars
the way they cling sun or rain
comfort of leaves

in the torrent of raindrops
memories childhood paper boats


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near palm fronds wave to
distant verdant mountains

after many years
from opposite directions
to meet in the street

under large umbrellas
the doubles vendors

a can of beans -
the flip side of a label
to write a haiku

coin toss
the captain says
we play

the dare of youth to reason
game of cricket in the street

the old mango tree
holding patches of sky
all day long

just for a while this sunset
golden like the burning bush

who knows me better
than i know myself -
dark chocolate squares

contemplating gratefulness
Republic Day holiday

Friday market -
a bouquet of fresh green herbs
delights the senses

enjoying parang music
counting days to Christmas
© gillena cox


This is DAY TWENTY SIX of Trending September a haiku sequence. During this September sequence i will not be linking to prompts at other sites. Click on September 2015, from the side menu, to see all of this September's haiga so far.

Today, i'm visiting friends at
Recuerda Mi Corazon

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parang voices...
redness of poinsettias in
December rain
--gillena cox


ADVENT CALENDAR 2013


5 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS




Linked today to PPF: Week 41, Year 3 'A Tea Party For Tracey!'

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August nights...
already paranderos
vibe the dark
--gillena cox


#paranderos = parang singers; revisit other parang posts here or click on parang at Labels


Linking today to Recuerda Mi Corazon - Mornings With Mary

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Defining Haiku here at Lunch Break that's 30 days, November 1st - 30th of haiku features

The haiku in today's haiga(illustrated haiku)

parang dictates
choice of radio station
Sunday savvy
--gillena cox

Today's note - kigo

parang = a genre of Trinidad and Tobago's Christmas Season Music

Kigo - a season reference. To kigo or not to kigo is now, not so much a compelling question, but rather a matter of personal style. If new to the genre, i think it builds good "haiku muscles" Or if writing in a renga (linked verse game) it is most often required.


Today's tag


Sunday Smiles

Today is #48in the series Sunday Savvy revisit Sunday Savvy 47 I invite you to share some of your kigo expertise with me email me or post a COMMENT

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Parang Parang

NPATT-National Parang Association of Trinidad and Tobago

October Sunshine

Paranderos - Parang singers

Parang -
In Trindad and Tobago a traditional song sang in Spanish about the birth of Jesus Christ, now also sung in English, and also there have been modern day versions sung in English with themes about ever aspect of Christmas activity

Listen to Parang Music

Lopinot

Lopinot

The welcoming sign at the Historical site of Lopinot is paled by the Immortelle trees blooming in the mountains.
It’s a cool Sunday afternoon, no bird whistles, no swishing breezes just that quite tone which nature uses to whisper to our hearts.
At The La Reconnaissance estate, the voice of our tour guide fills the afternoon with the tales of Charles Joseph Count de Loppinot (1738-1819) "Loppinot was a young knight who rose to the rank Lieutenant-General in the French army. He left France to serve time in the North-American French colony of Acadie (which is today combined with the Canadian territory of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island). His service and travels led him to Louisiana, the Caribbean- Jamaica, Santo Domingo (known as Dominican Republic and Haiti today), and Trinidad…”
He was soldier, voyager, slave owner, planter, landowner.
Memorabalia at the site includes the grave sites of the count and his wife. There are no photos of him but a photo of his ghost takes a place of prominence in the small museum, as well; well preserved furniture from the 19th Century, alongside parang musical instruments of present day made by residents. "Lopinot is the home of Parang" boast our tour guide"and parang is part and parcel of every day life; sung at wakes, funerals, birthdays, weddings; not only during Christmas Season ".
He leds us in a sampling of his parang expertise and we join in, singing lustly, filling the afternoon with the musical hearbeat of the people.

near the cashew tree
on a picnic bench
busy ants

Lopinot is located about five and three quarters miles north of Arouca.