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My New Monday Meme is up click here to link in

and while you linger here, enjoy some of the festivities of Carnival Monday out on the Western Main Road, St James, all photos taken this morning - gillena cox, 2015


bathed in fun-loving
jouvert morning -
the mud mas
© gillena cox





















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click here to listen to Machel Montano - Reveling

click here to revisit Jouvert 2011

Jouvert 2011

Jouvert, Western Main Road St James Trinidad;

revisit Jouvert 2010

and see also chocolate Jouvert

jouvert~
frenzy of revellers
coolness of morning
-- all photos and haiku gillena cox(2011)

LISTEN TO ah Trini by Calypsonian Benji (2011)

MORE 2011 PHOTOS ...

Hoarding Chocolates - 5

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Jouvert, in Trinidad and Tobago, dawns the Carnival bachannal; when mud and mas are corollaries, and this has been so, seemingly forever. Then, early in the new millenium (2007), enter chocolate; the new jouvert icon

the jouvert band-
gyrating chocolate covered
humans
--gillena cox





busy cupid
a quiver full of arrows
chocolate kisses
--magyar

Exorcising

jour ouvert, or day open starts the Carnival, one of the essentials for this revellery is mud This traditional part of Carnival starts at around 2 in the morning;
Its Carnival Monday in Trinidad and Tobago

SEE ALSO 2007 Jouvert Renga

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