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beauty of the rain
in its quiet nourishing –
yellow ixoras
© gillena cox 2017
According to my calendar it's new moon.
The new and first-quarter phases, known as the light of the Moon, are considered good for planting above-ground crops, putting down sod, grafting trees, and transplanting.
In some Native American legends, the moon is held captive by a hostile tribe. A pair of antelope hope to rescue the moon and take it the village of a good tribe, but Coyote, the trickster, interferes. The antelope chase Coyote, who tosses the moon into a river each night, just out of reach of the antelope.
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Unlike the sun, the moon does not present the same face every day. It waxes, or grows larger, until it becomes a glowing silver-white disk. Then night by night it wanes, or shrinks, to a curved sliver until it vanishes altogether. A few days later a slender new moon appears and begins to grow again in an endless cycle...
Sunday Smiles
tama-suri-no zayu ni hiraku tsubaki kana
Unfolding at the
hand of the glass polisher:
a camellia!
© Yosa Buson (1716-1784)
Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry
AND
Recuerda Mi Corazon - rain beauty
AND
Carpe Diem
Writing and enjoying haiku.3
Enjoy The Music
Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 44
Sunday Lime 44
23 July 2014
Labels: blog hop, Caribbean, flower, Ixora, Rainy Season, Trinidad and Tobago
posted by Gillena Cox at 8:21 AM
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