morning light
the rain lingers
in droplets
© gillena cox 2017
Monday Mosaic #43
Don't Leave Before You See Again
5 June 2016
5 June 2014
5 June 2015
Monday, June 05, 2017
2113
WILDFLOWERS TOO LUV THE RAIN
morning light
the rain lingers
in droplets
© gillena cox 2017
Blog hopping with
Monday Mosaic #43
Don't Leave Before You See Again
5 June 2016
5 June 2014
5 June 2015
morning light
the rain lingers
in droplets
© gillena cox 2017
Monday Mosaic #43
Don't Leave Before You See Again
5 June 2016
5 June 2014
5 June 2015
Sunday, June 04, 2017
2112
[image from google dot com]
Pentecost Sunday -
heads bowed in meditation
on tongues of fire
© gillena cox 2017
Holy Spirit rain down, rain down
Sunday Smiles
[I used 2 images from google, tweaked them a bit in PicMonkey, to form this Holy Spirit smiley; hope you like it]
Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #39 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below
Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #356
AND
Recuerda Mi Corazon - Holy Spirit
AND
Carpe Diem
Time Travel, Ancient Japanese Poetry To Inspire You #1 little I should grieve
[the poem prompt]
Even a breeze may fail me
When I desire it.
Little I should grieve,
If only, sure of its coming,
I could await even a breeze.
© Princess Kagami (7th century)
Pentecost Sunday -
heads bowed in meditation
on tongues of fire
no more tears for Calvary
He lives for and with us
© gillena cox 2017
Enjoy The Music
Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 39
Sunday Lime 39
Pentecost 2016
Pentecost Sunday -
heads bowed in meditation
on tongues of fire
© gillena cox 2017
Holy Spirit rain down, rain down
Sunday Smiles
[I used 2 images from google, tweaked them a bit in PicMonkey, to form this Holy Spirit smiley; hope you like it]
Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #39 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below
Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #356
AND
Recuerda Mi Corazon - Holy Spirit
AND
Carpe Diem
Time Travel, Ancient Japanese Poetry To Inspire You #1 little I should grieve
[the poem prompt]
Even a breeze may fail me
When I desire it.
Little I should grieve,
If only, sure of its coming,
I could await even a breeze.
© Princess Kagami (7th century)
Pentecost Sunday -
heads bowed in meditation
on tongues of fire
no more tears for Calvary
He lives for and with us
© gillena cox 2017
Enjoy The Music
Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 39
Sunday Lime 39
Pentecost 2016
Friday, June 02, 2017
2111
oxalis leaves
perfect purple triangles -
chipped edge of the pot
© gillena cox 2017
['Oxalis' water colour 4.75 by 7inches; i used good quality water colour paper]
[my inspiration: the flowers look so pale in my photo butthey are really pink]
Week 13 Year 7
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Enjoy The Music
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2 June 2016
2 June 2014
2 June 2013
Thursday, June 01, 2017
2110
[my granddaughter, in pink; on vacation, in New York Dec 2016]
first snow
Caribbean mittened hands
etch angels
© gillena cox 2017
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
❧
[Temple in the sea Waterloo, Trinidad, photo taken 2012]
gusts of wind -
prayer flags
their mantras
© gillena cox 2017
✿
❧
[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
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
2109
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
a wandering crow
its old nest has become
a plum tree
lingering twilight adds
a coat of gold to evening
washed in silhouettes
her cabin dons a creepy mien -
bedtime stories
a cricket withholds its chirp
green leaves wet with dew
coffee aromas
in hushed tones of morning's breath -
earnest prayers
feet slipping into sandals
to continue trek of scenes
。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
wind in the pines
swirls upward to heaven
whispered prayers
her steady trust of needle
beauty embroiders itself
。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
Blog hopping with Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #18 a wandering crow (Matsuo Basho)
This pre-script was not by Basho himself, it was added by Doho in his book Sho O Zen-den. In this poem Basho compares himself to the crow painted on the screen. Instead of lodging in the simplicity of a crow's nest, he sleeps among plum blossoms because he is staying with an elegant friend. Crows are not usually considered a migrating bird, but the idea of a wandering crow means a bird of passage or a priest on a journey. (Source: "Basho's Complete Haiku" by Jane Reichhold)
a wandering crow
its old nest has become
a plum tree
-hokku © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
lingering twilight adds
a coat of gold to evening
washed in silhouettes
her cabin dons a creepy mien -
bedtime stories
a cricket withholds its chirp
green leaves wet with dew
coffee aromas
in hushed tones of morning's breath -
earnest prayers
feet slipping into sandals
to continue trek of scenes
- verses 2-6 © gillena cox
✿
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #17 wind in the pines (Candy)
wind in the pines
swirls upward to heaven
whispered prayers
© Candy
her steady trust of needle
beauty embroiders itself
© gillena cox
Revisit
30th May 2016
30th May 2015
30th May 2014
a wandering crow
its old nest has become
a plum tree
lingering twilight adds
a coat of gold to evening
washed in silhouettes
her cabin dons a creepy mien -
bedtime stories
a cricket withholds its chirp
green leaves wet with dew
coffee aromas
in hushed tones of morning's breath -
earnest prayers
feet slipping into sandals
to continue trek of scenes
。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
wind in the pines
swirls upward to heaven
whispered prayers
her steady trust of needle
beauty embroiders itself
。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #18 a wandering crow (Matsuo Basho)
This pre-script was not by Basho himself, it was added by Doho in his book Sho O Zen-den. In this poem Basho compares himself to the crow painted on the screen. Instead of lodging in the simplicity of a crow's nest, he sleeps among plum blossoms because he is staying with an elegant friend. Crows are not usually considered a migrating bird, but the idea of a wandering crow means a bird of passage or a priest on a journey. (Source: "Basho's Complete Haiku" by Jane Reichhold)
a wandering crow
its old nest has become
a plum tree
-hokku © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
lingering twilight adds
a coat of gold to evening
washed in silhouettes
her cabin dons a creepy mien -
bedtime stories
a cricket withholds its chirp
green leaves wet with dew
coffee aromas
in hushed tones of morning's breath -
earnest prayers
feet slipping into sandals
to continue trek of scenes
- verses 2-6 © gillena cox
✿
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #17 wind in the pines (Candy)
wind in the pines
swirls upward to heaven
whispered prayers
© Candy
her steady trust of needle
beauty embroiders itself
© gillena cox
Revisit
30th May 2016
30th May 2015
30th May 2014
Monday, May 29, 2017
2108
CLOUDS AND MOUNTAINS
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gaze to mountain top -
contemplation of footsteps
in cloud-ascending
✿
dawn -
sound of brooms sweeping
the street
© gillena cox 2017
Blog hopping today with
Mosaic Monday # 42
AND
Blue Monday - Tattered Garment
AND
Carpe Diem
The Spiritual Way #10 Ascension
❧✿❧ ❧✿❧
Don't Leave Before You See Again
29 May 2013
29 May 2015
29 May 2016
❧✿❧ ❧✿❧
gaze to mountain top -
contemplation of footsteps
in cloud-ascending
✿
dawn -
sound of brooms sweeping
the street
© gillena cox 2017
Mosaic Monday # 42
AND
Blue Monday - Tattered Garment
AND
Carpe Diem
The Spiritual Way #10 Ascension
❧✿❧ ❧✿❧
Don't Leave Before You See Again
29 May 2013
29 May 2015
29 May 2016
Sunday, May 28, 2017
2107
clouds emptied of rain -
the radiance of Poui
in its aftermath
✿
coolness of the night -
to quiet sliver of light
upward gaze to moon
© gillena cox 2017
Its Ascension Sunday, and yesterday, Saturday, we had a nice cooling shower of rain during the day; a preface of our rainy Season which should start in June.
Sunday Smiles
[smiling cloud from Google dot com]
.かへる雁翌はいづくの月や見る
kaeru kari asu wa izuku no tsuki ya miru
departing geese
where will you moon-gaze
tomorrow?
© Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1828)
Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #355
AND
Recuerda Mi Corazon - ascension
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Enjoy The Music
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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 38
Sunday Lime 38
Ascension 2016
Friday, May 26, 2017
2106
[my brushes, inspiration, water colour painting and a crop]
[water colour on recycled cardboard 8.5 by 10.5 inches; No draft sketching was done ]
[A real ixora leaf snuck into this photo, adds to the fun]
['Crystal Bowl And A Bloom of Red Ixoras']
[framed and text added for a haiga]
overcast sky -
in absence of bird songs
bloom of ixoras
© gillena cox 2017
Blog Hopping today with
Week 12 Year 7
Enjoy The Music
Don't Leave Before You See Again
26 May 2016
26 May 2013
26 May 2012
[water colour on recycled cardboard 8.5 by 10.5 inches; No draft sketching was done ]
[A real ixora leaf snuck into this photo, adds to the fun]
['Crystal Bowl And A Bloom of Red Ixoras']
[framed and text added for a haiga]
overcast sky -
in absence of bird songs
bloom of ixoras
© gillena cox 2017
Week 12 Year 7
Enjoy The Music
Don't Leave Before You See Again
26 May 2016
26 May 2013
26 May 2012
Thursday, May 25, 2017
2105
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
a drop of dew
sits on a rock
like a diamond
treasure of morning coolness
before the sun grips today
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
ancient road…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
bared twigs pointing directions
choices we now must reach for
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image from google dot com]
a stone for a pillow
me, just another cicada ...
so shrill, like crying
...........embers of a camp fire
yet, we pledge our friendships
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image from google dot com]
Springtime in Edo,
Not a day passes without
A temple bell sold.
pounding of hammer and nails
and old church bell is silent
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
bamboo
waving candlelight into the night
wind
nights of Divali lightings
the flicker of deya flames
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtest Carpe Diem]
ants busy themselves
under a weeping willow
as old as the hills
© gillena cox
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
✿
Blog hopping today with Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #16 a drop of dew (Bosha)
a drop of dew
sits on a rock
like a diamond
© Kawabata Bosha (1897-1941)
treasure of morning coolness
before the sun gripes today
© gillena cox
✿
a stone for a pillow
me, just another cicada ...
so shrill, like crying
© Kawabata Bosha (1897-1941)
...........embers of a camp fire
yet, we pledge our friendships
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #15 ancient road (Adjei Agyei Baah)
ancient road…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
© Adjei Agyei-Baah
bared twigs pointing directions
choices we now must reach for
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
#14 Springtime (Kikaku)
Springtime in Edo,
Not a day passes without
A temple bell sold.
© Kikaku
pounding of hammer and nails
and old church bell is silent
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #13 bamboo (Jane Reichhold)
bamboo
waving candlelight into the night
wind
© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)
nights of Divali lightings
the flicker of deya flames
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Universal Jane #17 fragment and phrase
Ah! that coolness
the willows' shadow
on a hot summerday
© Chèvrefeuille
ants busy themselves
under a weeping willow
as old as the hills
© gillena cox
✿
Dont Leave Before You See Also
25 May 2015
25 May 2014
25 May 2013
a drop of dew
sits on a rock
like a diamond
treasure of morning coolness
before the sun grips today
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtesy Carpe Diem]
ancient road…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
bared twigs pointing directions
choices we now must reach for
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image from google dot com]
a stone for a pillow
me, just another cicada ...
so shrill, like crying
...........embers of a camp fire
yet, we pledge our friendships
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image from google dot com]
Springtime in Edo,
Not a day passes without
A temple bell sold.
pounding of hammer and nails
and old church bell is silent
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
bamboo
waving candlelight into the night
wind
nights of Divali lightings
the flicker of deya flames
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
[image courtest Carpe Diem]
ants busy themselves
under a weeping willow
as old as the hills
© gillena cox
• ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
✿
Blog hopping today with Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #16 a drop of dew (Bosha)
a drop of dew
sits on a rock
like a diamond
© Kawabata Bosha (1897-1941)
treasure of morning coolness
before the sun gripes today
© gillena cox
✿
a stone for a pillow
me, just another cicada ...
so shrill, like crying
© Kawabata Bosha (1897-1941)
...........embers of a camp fire
yet, we pledge our friendships
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #15 ancient road (Adjei Agyei Baah)
ancient road…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
© Adjei Agyei-Baah
bared twigs pointing directions
choices we now must reach for
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
#14 Springtime (Kikaku)
Springtime in Edo,
Not a day passes without
A temple bell sold.
© Kikaku
pounding of hammer and nails
and old church bell is silent
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #13 bamboo (Jane Reichhold)
bamboo
waving candlelight into the night
wind
© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)
nights of Divali lightings
the flicker of deya flames
© gillena cox
Carpe Diem
Universal Jane #17 fragment and phrase
Ah! that coolness
the willows' shadow
on a hot summerday
© Chèvrefeuille
ants busy themselves
under a weeping willow
as old as the hills
© gillena cox
✿
Dont Leave Before You See Also
25 May 2015
25 May 2014
25 May 2013
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