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trees in bloom 

when Easter time is near -

pink poui

gillena cox 2025

THINGS I AM MOST THANKFUL FOR

REVISIT

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 ENJOY THE MUSIC
Here in Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹 we celebrate 100 days of Christmas starting 23rd Sepember to 25th December; hosted by Sweet 101.1 FM Radio, where our local Christmas music is featured

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


HAPPY PENTECOST SUNDAY...SUNDAY SMILES

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Blog hopping today with

Poetry Pantry 404

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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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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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[Pink Poui in bloom St James Trinidad 20160327]

wedge between
day to day, this special joy
of today
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Sunday Savvy #78
Easter 2015
Sunday Lime 1


HAPPY EASTER 2016


Sunday Smiles





Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #78 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry 295


And

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - Easter


AND


Mosiac Monday #86

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early blossoming Poui
infusing joy -
third Sunday of Lent
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
Sunday Savvy #74
Pink Poui 2010
Sunday Lime 1


Sunday Smiles




Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #74 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below





Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry 291


And

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - 'early'


AND

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flowering Myrtle, Western Main Road, St. James; Trinidad


to the exclamation
of a blossoming tree -
honking horns
© gillena cox

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"We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!"
--Gary Ryan Blair


here's my digitally inspired haiga today




I am blog hopping today at
Good Fences #65


...

Week15 Year 5


...


Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - exclamation

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hope rolls in
mundane days cower before
pink poui
© gillena cox



inspiration for today's digital art piece: Poui in bloom around The Queens Park Savannah Port of Spain Trinidad




Revisit
Easter breezes
i know
through


I'm blog hopping today at
Week 5 Year 5



...


Carpe Diem #703, Karma