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[my granddaughter, in pink; on vacation, in New York Dec 2016]

first snow
Caribbean mittened hands
etch angels
© gillena cox 2017



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Blog hopping with today with

Thursday Challenge
"STORM (week 1 of 2)" (Dark Clouds, Rain, Lightning, Hail, Snow,...)


AND


Carpe Diem
#1199 prayer flags, messengers for the gods

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[Temple in the sea Waterloo, Trinidad, photo taken 2012]

gusts of wind -
prayer flags
their mantras
© gillena cox 2017

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[image courtesy Carpe Diem]

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #19 in the light of dawn

in the light of dawn
sunflowers reach to the blue sky
praising their Creator
© Chèvrefeuille

bright splendor of Poui Trees
beckon from the mountainsides
© gillena cox 2017

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[Temple in the sea Waterloo, Trinidad]

autumn evening
like whispered prayers
leaves float away

a temple sits in the sea
pray flags ripple discordant hymns


[coconut sweetbread image from google dot com]

coconut sweetbread -
the way a mother mixes
her day to day tasks


[Dawn In The Valley - Valerie Ganz: painting from google dot com]

ura wo mise omote wo misete chiru momiji

now it reveals its hidden side
and now the other thus it falls,
an autumn leaf

from dawn sky tints of orange
preface to evening sunset



Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #9 leaves float away (Dolores Fegan)

autumn evening
like whispered prayers
leaves float away
© Dolores

a temple sits in the sea
pray flags ripple discordant hymns
© gillena cox 2017

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Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #10 an autumn leaf (Ryokan Taigu)

ura wo mise omote wo misete chiru momiji

now it reveals its hidden side
and now the other thus it falls,
an autumn leaf
© Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831)

from dawn sky tints of orange
preface to evening sunset
© gillena cox


Carpe Diem
Namasté, The Spiritual Way #9 Mother's Day

coconut sweetbread -
the way a mother mixes
her day to day tasks
© gillena cox 2017

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Don't leave before you see again
15 May 2016

15 May 2015

15 May 2013

1323

ghosts of the ancients
cast their towering shadows
on the holy ground
--Patricia

long after visitors leave
colourful furl of prayer flags
--gillena cox


ghosts of the ancients
cast their towering shadows
on the holy ground
long after visitors leave
colourful furl of prayer flags

Linking today to Carpe Diem: Patricia's "ghosts of the ancients'' See more responses to the Tan Renga HERE


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