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blossoming poui

adorning  the savannah -

season of Easter

© gillena cox 2022

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A LOOK BACK

fridge magnets first posted HERE

YUMMY

  cauliflower, broccoli,  tomatoes, cabbage; roasted chicken, lentils &rice.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Thursday Art Date: Leaves and Branches And 🎈🎈 An Announcement Re: Paint Party Friday! 🎈🎈

REVISIT
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INVITATION

Please join me here at Lunch Break every Friday. Its ART For Fun Friday. There will be a linky

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 de homeless man rests ...

a bench 'round -de-savannah'

under Poui trees

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the Pomerac tree -

fallen pink inflorescence

a natural  carpet

childhood home garden 

a memory of many trees -

a long time ago

fruit trees strong and tall

in the yard where i grew up -

the long rod picker

with salt and pepper

fruit from the Mango Vere tree

eaten green in chow

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the city outskirts -

The Emperor Valley zoo

with bordering trees

under a Bay tree -

Royal Botanic Gardens

note our first kiss

at home paradise -

Guava and Avocado

trees gift us their fruit

my love deserts me -

Plum and Mango trees planted

just sweeten longing

Stations of The Cross

Good Friday in The Hollows -

pink Poui blooming

Easter's a-coming

traffic curbs flowering trees -

the savannah arc

all the trees wear green

circling The Savannah -

after blossoms fall

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT
31 March 2019
31 March 2016
31 March 2015

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Poets and Storytellers United

Weekly Scribblings #63: Trees

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Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree."
-- Trees by Joyce Kilmer

ENJOY THE VIDEO

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Poui blossoming
in the distant mountains -
somewhere it's Springtime
© gillena cox


Bloghopping today with

Thursday Art Date
: Signs of Spring






[gif created in PicsArt background photo © gillena cox]

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...The Sahara Dust is continuing its onslaught here in T&T

clouds
laden in overcast mode
Sahara Dust
umbrellas prove useless
dust masks so unflattering
© gillena cox 2019


...Oh but The Pink Poui are in bloom around The Queens Park Savannah


Pink Poui in bloom -
a mobile phone call
shares your beauty
© gillena cox 2019



[photos - gillena cox : 'Blooming Pink Poui, around de Savannah 2019']







[digital composition'Umbrella' using computer graphics]




BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Week 3 Year 9

AND


April Showers


AND

colourful


AND

Carpe Diem
#1631 A new chapter ... leaving the Kumano Kodo
Kristjaan have chosen a wonderful sonnet by William Shakespeare titled: 'From you have I been absent in the spring', in his episode of "Distillation". CHALLENGE: to create a haiku or tanka inspired on this longer poem. Or create a haiku or tanka from the poem.

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight
Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.
© William Shakespeare (1564-1616)



REVISIT
22 Marchy 2017
22 March 2014
22 March 2013



ENJOY THE MUSIC

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as the heat deepens
before the rainy season -
outburst of Poui
© gillena cox 2018
[This haiku also posted to Facebook - NaHaiWriMo prompt effusive]



Long ago The Corpus Christi holiday served as a marker for the Rainy Season. [Corpus Christi this year was May 31st] It was a day to plant for every one who had the smallest bit of backyard space. Now the days get hotter and the rains come it seems, when it pleases. And we wait for the Met Office to tell us The Rainy Season is here. So here we are folks in the month of June and its still hot hot here.
SUNDAY SMILES




Blog hopping today with

Poetry Pantry 405

AND


Haiku My Heart
June


ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
Sunday Savvy 87
Sunday Lime 87
3 June 2016


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #87 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below

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Woodford Square relic -
a golden Poui distracts
the downtown shoppers
© gillena cox 2018


HAPPY PENTECOST SUNDAY...SUNDAY SMILES

[google dotcom animation]


Blog hopping today with

Poetry Pantry 404

AND


Haiku My Heart
Spirit


ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
Sunday Savvy 85
Sunday Lime 85
Pentecost 2017


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #85 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below

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[haiga 'Poui': watercolour and ink pencils on Watercolour board 6.5 by 5 inches]

sunny day -
golden the Poui
on the mountainside
© gillena cox 2018


['Bathing Beauties' : digital collage 3 internet images and PicMonkey filters used in composing]



[inspirationfor Poui]


[process of Poui]




Bloghopping today with

Week 11, Year 8

AND


Bathing Beauties



REVISIT
18 May 2017
18 May 2015
18 May 2013



ENJOY THE MUSIC

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just before the rains
that final hurrah in yellow
blossoming poui
© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with

Thursday Challenge "REMEMBRANCES" (Any photo that you have taken that brings back or you anticipate will bring back good memories,...)


Revisit
14 September 2016
14 September 2015
14 September 2014

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[my impression - on newsprint, its incomplete]

ah to poem
a tree with words
unspoken
© gillena cox 2017

[my inspiration - photo of a Poui tree without blossoms May 2017]


[a pretty picture - just for fun - digital]


[got this as a Christmas gift 2016 from my daughter]


[that's all I have coloured so far]



Blog hopping today with

Week 10, Year 7

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Enjoy the music

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Don't Leave before you see again
12 May 2016
12 May 2015
12 May 2013

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[Pink Poui, Queens Park Savannah, Trinidad from google dot com]


Like a woman who don's a shabby dress. You pass to, you pass fro. She's there. You go about your business. You pass by absorbed in the steady stream of traffic. You hear the noise in the heads, of commuters: TV talk, another terrorist hit...more tears...more strife...the world a global village in pain...peak hour...stuck in traffic ...you would think wide streets were made to offer speedy transport...with all its shoulders and middles and lanes. Then one day, with thoughts of a Holy Week, and Easter. She comes alive she strikes her lively poise.
Ah! the Poui -
shades of her Japanese sisters
the pink Sakura
© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping today with

Hope and the Places That Heal You


See again
8 April 2015
8 April 2014
8 April 2013


[edited to Link to]

Carpe Diem
#1194 Cherry Blossom (Sakura)

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blue hues of morning -
wisps of clouds whisper in praise
of Poui blossoms
© gillena cox 2017


blog hopping today with

Thursday Challenge
"SHADOW (week 1 of 2)" (Any photo with shadows or a silhouette,...)

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Don't Leave Before You See Again
6 April 2014
6 April 2011
6 April 2007

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maybe its the rain
early blossoming poui -
maybe my birthday
© gillena cox 2017

Yesterday February 11th was my Birthday, See my online party HERE well.. some of it anyway


Sunday Smiles



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #23 in the series, The Sunday Standard, when a 5-7-5 haiku is featured. How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping at

Poetry Pantry #340

AND


Recuerda Mi Corazon
haiku my heart ~ celebration



Revisit
12 Feb 2016
Sunday Lime 22
Sunday Savvy 23