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though the discomforts
from the Sahara Dust
pink Periwinkles
delicate and determined
still a reason to smile
© gillena cox 2019

[i used 2 versions of today's tanka, one in the image and one in the body of the post page; tell me which you like]


We are still under onslaught from Sahara Dust winding its way across The Atlamtic

Sunday Smiles



BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
[As I haiku my heart today 'periwinkles']

Haiku My Heart
a weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love


AND

At Poetry Pantry, Sherry exclaims "What a beautiful world we live in!"

Poetry Pantry # 445



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #29 of the series SUMI-E SUNDAYS. Tell me about your Sunday
email me
post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



REVISIT
31 March 2016
Sunday Standard 29
Sunday Lime 29


DO ENJOY THE MUSIC

2411

...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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[image from google dot com used for this haiga]


We were the very first set of entrants. It was the same year our country's independence was declared. We got pencils and candy and little red-white-and-black flags.
"Do you remember the rose garden used to be there?" "Yes, I remember the orangish-yellow one i planted; just like the sky over there." "I planted one also" he said, his smile still shy, in a much much older face.

Sahara dust
heavy in the dawn sky -
high school reunion
© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Reunions


Revisit
high school
13 September 2016
13 September 2015

Renku Saturday 24

graduation day
wiping the dust
from my shoes
--Bill

today I will ask
a dove to cover
my dirty car
--Ralf

revisit Renku Saturday 23