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HAPPY EARTH DAY 

Continuing: Cutting up the art journal and keeping the scraps. More (ACEO) Art Cards Editions and Originals. 5 more to celebrate Earth Day  today

Last week's jumble for  World Art Day

remember these?

 

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Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #5

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Bon Appetit 

baked riceballs.. baked white salmon filets.. pumpkin sautee. tomato wedges.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Haiku My Heart 

AND

Friday Writings #23:Write your medicine..

pandemic days -

the whats app messages

relay health issues

bent knees

salty tears and a prayer -

all for the healing

© gillena cox 2022

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REVISIT 

Happy Earth Day 2021
Happy Earth Day 2020
Happy Earth Day 2017


 View through my kitchen window April 2022

Yellow Poui blooming and pink poui blossom fall, Queens Park Savannah

Port of Spain Trinidad today.

(gillena cox photo)

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Love Song to the Earth - Paul McCartney, Sean Paul, Natasha Bedingfield, & more (Official Video)

 

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Art For Fun Friday 

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THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN:
an Earth Day Haiku Collaboration

this is island Earth
we need to learn its rhythms
live on island time

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"in the beginning..."
the first view of our Mother
leaves us without words

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For shame, for shame...
hibernation
mama bear wakes
to two gunshots

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city dandelions
nature will not
be denied
--Ardelle Ray, USA

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How tiny earth is
How big the naked ape's mind
Will he destroy this globe?

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horses wandering
green and untouched prairie plains
munch blooming flowers

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monarch butterflies
fluttering across the yard
Is spring here so soon?
--Chelle Baratta-Angelini, USA

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spring puddle
my puppy learns
the word jump
--Chrissi Villa, USA

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bird watching. . .
around a new stump
tiny trees
--Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, Croatia

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Earth Day
without the missiles and
of refugees
--Gennady Nov, Russia

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clear day
clouds of Sahara Dust -
a rain mirage

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concrete silhouettes -
lingering orange sunset
in span of earth's spin

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put an end to this
bombs used to hurt each other -
let peace reign instead
[also posted to The Haiku Foundation- Earthrise rolling collaborative haiku 2017]

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aged grey -
the brick wall where
three grackles rest

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Champs-Elysées ~
fresh wounds to planet Earth
only peace can heal
--gillena cox; Trinidad and Tobago

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busy city street -
blackbird sings
regardless
--Juliet Wilson, UK

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all round the earth
enjoying colors and perfumes
I feel at home
--Nicole Pottier, France

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Mother Nature's garb
in tatters from abuse...
needs an Earth Day mend

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Mother Nature
in her greenest garb...
Earth Day
--Pat Geyer, USA

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Earth day
Loving
Our mother
--Shanna Baldwin, Hawaii

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full moon
a tree silhouette
holds the last star

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spring rain
each leaf
a moon bath
--Vibeke Laier, Denmark


Poems remain the copyright of individual writers


Enjoy The Music



Don't Leave Before You See Again
Earth Day 2016
Earth Day 2015
Earth Day 2014
Earth Day 2013
Earth Day 2012
Earth Day 2010
Earth Day 2009
Earth Day 2008


THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN: an Earth Day Haiku Collaboration. I imagined and hosted this as an Event at Facebook beginning April 12th 2017 and ending today. CHEERS to all the writers who participated.



Blog hopping today with

Bits Of Inspiration ~ Mi Young Lee

1883

[image courtesy Wikipedia]

GAIA'S PATHOS [MAKING MYTHS 2]
Hearing his voice, she woke in yawning pleasure, for it was the time of union to transpose into birthing all that goodness could ever.
From loins and heart: skies and seas alive to a natural harmony.
The waters existed to calm, to soothe, to bathe, to absorb; oui.
Rain was never needed. Only existence held her
Clever passionate and full of love: the trees fruited, being, just like their mother

Ah but the pains of motherhood. Such offsprings seeking to mistrue, causing mayhem, strive and woe, morphed a path - The Undesigned.
Seeking waves of blood and gore so that now the saddened essence of Gaia, knows the passion of weeping songs to the cadence sad, assigned.
Sometimes, there be tsunami - passionate, like her wounded soul. Although, sometimes tears trickle, gentle like her heart, if truth be told.

Earth Day -
in a dawn serenade
the rain
GAIA'S PATHOS [MAKING MYTHS 2] © gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Making myths 1
Earth Day 2015
Earth Day 2014

HAPPY EARTH DAY 2016 EVERYONE

written for Magaly's prompt On her day Gaia wails


AND

linking to Sanaa's prompt Prompt Nights – Jour de la Terre – Earth Day [12]

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In 2013 a car crashed my wall. My bougainvillea was destroyed, or so i thought, the gardener dug it up, and said it couldn't be saved.Then one day, my grief turned to joy again, when I say a tiny green shoot appearing. and today I'm happy to share. My born again Bougainvillea
sunshine and i smile / beautiful bougainvillea



Happy Earth Day 2015 to all Lunch Break visitors and friends


Revisit
Earth Day 2014

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Every year on April 22, over a billion people in 190 countries take action for Earth Day. From San Francisco to San Juan, Beijing to Brussels, Moscow to Marrakesh, people plant trees, clean up their communities, contact their elected officials, and more—all on behalf of the environment...

Earth Day 2014 focus– Green Cities

Welcome to Lunch Break Earth Day 2014 Poetry revisit Earth Day 2013 To celebrate with me this year, you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and, you can also enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below




Earth day --
whiff of jasmine
in the backyard
--Archana Kapoor, Nagpal India


city life
the fan of breezes
where trees remain

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city life
tree-lined boulevard cradles
a homeless man
--gillena cox, Trinidad and Tobago


Earth Day -
an old man picking litter
in the park

--Juilet Wilson, Edinburgh


Earth day
we all crave some shade
Desert life
--Celestine Nudanu Ghana



Poems remain the copyright of individual writers and should not be used without their permission


I am blog hopping today at
Ruby Tuesdays Too



Carpe Diem #454, midday nap

1165

revisit Earth Day 2012

Sunday Savvy 22

Sunday savvy -
this circle that is earth
ours to stewardship
--gillena cox, TT

Earth Day marks its 43rd year today April 22. Forty-three years is nothing. The Earth has survived for 4.5 billion years. It’s handled countless asteroids, oxidizing bacteria, and climate-changing volcanoes. Trust me, the Earth is going to be fine. The real question is: are we? read more here
series SUNDAY SAVVY continues - HAPPY EARTH DAY


over her scars
each year a new dress...
Mother Earth
--Ana-Maria Trandafir, RO

Happy quotidian birthday to you, Mother Gaia!
One more trip around the Sun,
just a cosmic inch on the infinite spiral trek towards Vega.
And while you, heavenly pals, move, human life goes on
through perplexing moments of glory and misery.
--Franklin Magalhaes, BR


get moving
work together for Mother...
"Mobilize the Earth"
--Pat Geyer, US


earth day –
on the robin chicks’ backs
new feathers

earth day -
a blackbird feather woven
into the robins’ nest
--Stella Pierdes, DE/UK


earth day--
I make a wish
on a dandelion

endless sky
another spring
full of daffodils
--Christine L. Villa, US



Earth Day---
first bird song
greens smile
--Gennady Nov, RU

Poems in this Earth Day Sunday sequence are the copyright of the individual writers

revisit Earth Day 2010

revisit Sunday Savvy 21

Sunday smiles to all; Why not share a little Sunday Earth day something with me: COMMENT or email me

Earth Day 2010

internet image from...



power cut -
time snatched from
the face of the clock
--gillena cox

Earth day poems and songs

revisit Earth Day 2009

Earth Day 2009

Have a HAPPY EARTH DAY 2009
First launched as an environmental awareness event in the United States in 1970, Earth Day (April 22) is celebrated as the birth of the environmental movement...Earth day history

Earth Day
I circle the date
in green

Earth Day
a note in
my kiyose
--William Sorlien; Minnesota, USA


violet asterisk –
somebody wrote my name
across the Earth's day
--Ralf Bröker; Germany


earth day-
holding a bouquet of flowers
in the check out line
--John Merryfield; Mexico


earth day
fallen petals adorn
the waste bin
--Polona Oblak; Slovenia


Under our feet
thousands of cherry petals…
still Earth Day
--Magdalena Dale; Bucharest - Romania


Wake up to Daylight
Thinking about God's green Earth
Birds pecking at seed
--Que Clingerman; US


Psalmist's Earth Day
resting in greener pastures
our Shepherd at work

Been busy in the yard with treating dandelions and clover which infiltrate my grass and spraying for ants which populate our area like sand. On a serious note I usually celebrated Earth Day with my class as a teacher. Earth Day needs a long hard look at progress and priorities.

forty years old now
a grassroots holiday
in midlife crisis
-- Reason A Poteet; US


beginner
she prays the seed
into the earth
--Bill Kenney; Whitestone NY USA


Earth day...
planting trees to become
giants of hope
--Keith A. SIMMONDS; T & T


panta rhei...
point in the universe
our Earth
--Krzysztof Kokot; Poland


Solar system
celebrates: happy
Earth Day!

We don't like
your kisses asteroids,
stay on your way!

Earthy Day party --
Mars pays court
to Venus...again

Earth Day --
a bit tipsy Jupiter totters
on his path

Blue Marble -- so many lifes in your blues!
--Tomislav Maretic; Croatia


soft breezes blow south
relief from hot days in spring
marine layer cools

no electric air
needed today open windows
bring shaded sun

cats chew green leaves
ecology of felines
earth day everyday for them

recycle what
hurts earth
save planet mother

--Michelle Rose; US


Mother earth's belly
mostly protected by
salty water

Our own moon
behind the heavy clouds --
I wanted to live in Jupiter!

(Jupiter "owns" 63 moons, counted now, I think one of those is seen more frequently ?)
--Tikkis; Finland


Earth day -
amongst the stars
a garden
--John McDonald; UK


Greeting from Poland I think of the destruction caused environment by the mines

gold mine -
the rain forest
and smaller
--Andrzej Dembonczyk; Poland


I should embrace the earth
but, ah dear, only two hands
are not enough

global heating-
health before wealth
for people and earth
--Vasile Moldovan; Romania


mirthday far off
as water sighs and cries
earth day thinks fresh
--Joseph B. Connolly; Nevada US


It's Earth Day today?
Too bad my tank was empty,
so Earth un-friendly.
--HaikuKelly; US


pruning shrubs
eve of Earth Day-
cirrus overpass
--gillena cox; TT

Earth Day asterisks 2009:-*Green Generation Campaign *renewable energy *green jobs *global dimming earthdaynetwork

Days before Earth Day 2009, President Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave a press briefing at the "Summit of the Americas" in Trinidad and Tobago where he laid out the potentially disastrous consequences if the world community doesn't unite to combat climate change read more

Poems in this Earth Day sequence are the copyright of the individual writers and should not be reproduced without their permission

Earth Day Haiku coordinator - Gillena Cox; TT

revisit Earth Day 2008

Earth Day 2008

soft summer wings
this greener cocktail flies
above the dust /_m


earth day haiku --
writer's block ...
clouds roll pass me /tm


earth day 2008
we the mouthpiece
for trees, the sea, the wind/tc

Long icicle -
a drop of water falls,
toward her centre. /vs


smell of rain
a shiver through the trees--
sound of windchimes/gc


life to love - -
arms wide
hug a tree /fb


earth day
each day I walk
over all this life /kr


walking the trail
I pause by the chaparral--
Earth Day /jd


earth day
celebration
for the earthits /sm


small hours
shuffling bedtime
and earth hour/as


as - Alan Summers
fb - Famida Basheer
gc - Gillena Cox
jd - John Daleiden
kr - Kala Ramesh
_m - magyar
sm - Shanna Baldwin-Moore
tc - Tiong Chunghoo
tm - Tyrone McDonald
vs - Vaughn Seward

Renku editor -- Gillena Cox
Photo -- Gillena Cox

From April 22nd to 25th you can email me or post as a comment your 'earth day haiku'
and i'll add it to the renku

Some environmentalists have grown critical of Earth Day, particularly those in the Bright green environmentalism camp. They charge that Earth Day has come to symbolize the marginalization of environmental sustainability, and that the celebration itself has outlived its usefulness
Earth Day