Dimanche Gras 2011 News
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Friday, March 04, 2011
Calypso
Diverse origins are subscribed to the calypso; some say its West African brought with the slaves; some say the French started it; some say its Amerindian; but one commonanltiy sustains, calypso, in its many morphed forms of today, was wrought out of oppression
Carnival events 2011
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Raindrops
raindrops pearl~
another flower opened
the jasmine bush
ah, but that was yesterday; today has started out sunny and bright
--photo and haibun; gillena cox
The story of Draobete in the Romanian Festival of Love tells of...
...a proud woman, teasing the month of March who then gets even by taking a few days from February. Other stories are of Dochia, sister of Dacian ruler Decebal, who runs away in the mountains to seek refuge from the Roman Emperor Trajan. She disguises herself as a shepherd, but looses her lambskin and freezes. She is then metamorphosed into a stream and her sheep are turned into flowers. Regardless of its origin, the myth of Dragobete speaks of pristine love, of nature’s rituals translated into people’s life, of new life cycles and of being reborn.
Bye Bye February thank you for my birthday on day eleven;
much love
gillena
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Evening Sun
the evening sun shines
the children dance
Sunday masquerade
--all photos and haiku gillena cox
revisit children masquerade 2010
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Hoarding Chocolates 14
internet image from
Welcome to the 'Hoarding Chocolates' finale and Happy St Valentines Day 2011
Our gift basket contains :
Lunch Break Feb 14th 2011 quote for today
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! [Sandra J. Dykes]
cacao pods
food of the gods
on my lips
© 2011 Sandy Vrooman
An almond cluster
left in their valentines box --
she offers to him...
Vaughn
20110214
chocolate swoon:
kisses, roses, sweets and cake
heart shapes. heart shapes. heart…
Mary Angela
20110214
eating chocolate kisses
fingerprints
cover his back
--Pris
20110214
Chocolate has to be spicy just like other food. ;-)
vodka chilli cocktail
I become a corner
in the edge of a room
--Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit surreal haiku edition Vol. 13 No. 1 (2003)
20110214
I prefer it bittersweet and hot. But sometimes it has to be white chocolate.
In the cellar
the old wine-grower
opens a can
--Ralf
20110213
Chocolate for two
this Spring morning
swett taste
--Angelika Kolompar
20110212
another bite
another birthday~
chocolates
--gillena cox
20110211
sweetness from your smile
smooth chocolate words you send
to our hungry hearts
Dianne
20110211
Decadent as can be
Chocolate served
--Lorraine
20110211
mid-February
my chocolate truffle melts
with the snow
--Bette Norcross Wappner
20110211
on her pillow
a chocolate kiss
...nearly home
--Diane Mayr
20110211
your kiss
the last chocolate
in the box
--Melissa Allen
20110211
from the mouth of
so many grown ups "no sweets"
before dinner
--gillena cox
20110210
late sunrise
a gift of chocolates
yet unopened
--gillena cox
20110209
okay! I will succumb
after my oatmeal,
a chocolate muffin
and I won't count calories!
--Doris Kasson
20110208
ecstasy--
cherry blossoms, you
and chocolate
--John Daleiden; Phoenix, AZ
20110208
chocolate
flavor
grandson's mouth
--Sakuo
20110207
ice cream sundae
one scoop chocolate-
savannah breeze
--gillena cox
20110206
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
20110205
busy cupid
a quiver full of arrows
chocolate kisses
--magyar
20110205
snowed in
warming up with cocoa
and extra cream
Hot chocolate, yummy, or as I have on my blog, hot cocoa. Growing up we didn't have these mixes that come with sugar, only unsweetened cocoa which my mother mixed with milk and added sugar to taste. For extra richness, a dollop of whipped cream on top.
--Adelaide
20110204
buds on the rose bush-
when we danced to the music of
Hot Chocolate
--gillena cox
20110203
For over 3000 years, Chocolate like gold, has had a universal appeal...
the telephone booth-
remember the coin return
and no connection
--gillena cox
20110202
My paternal grandmother, Veronica Mitchell (many years deceased), used to grind cocoa beans which she would shape into cocoa logs and balls, to be used for making hot chocolate. She sold them, along with herbs and spices in the old Chaguanas market
out in the street
the barking dog chasing after
passing cars
--gillena cox
20110201
Thank you to all participating writers for making 'Hoarding Chocolates' 2011 a huge success;
revisit St Valentines Day 2010
Poems remain the copyright of individual writers and should not be used without their permission; much love
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