Woodford Square

Read also'Woodford Square'; a haibun at Simply Haiku Winter 2005, vol 3 no 4

A Greying

Traffic Jam

Bice

Grocery

Rain Tease

Bird Songs

Unfurled

Send a bougainvillae E-greeting

Thriving

send a bougainvillea e - greeting

Crown Of Thorns

internet photo from

crown of thorns
through the window of the bus
potted plants
--gillena cox



Good Friday 2008 St Mary's RC Church St James Trinidad - slide show



Today, Good Friday, crown of thorns is also symbolic in the Christian remembrances of the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ; John the Evangelist wrote ...Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said,"Hail, King of the Jews!" and they smote him with their hands...more here

Passover Moon

Happy Holiday

filter added to internet photo from

listen to 'Ring de bell' - Brother Resistance

Send a holiday e-greeting


the bell rings
even in todays drought
blessings rain
--gillena cox


see also Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day 2009

The Landscaping

Folded Palms

'Folded Palms' a 2004 stitchaiga

What is stitchaiga

Send this haiga as an e- greeting

...Palm Sunday also called Passion Sunday the ...last Sunday of Lent and beginning of Holy... remembering the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his Passion...more here

Palm Sunday Trinidad and Tobago Sampler

These

Send an ixora e greeting

Unreal

'Unreal' - a Renaud/Cox collaboration

Listen

Arima River photos

Bush Fire

Hot Day

In The Stillness

Its Name

In the Labyrinth

Happy St Paddy's day

St Paddy's Day Egreeting



May you be poor in misfortunes,
and rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness,
from this day forward,
May good luck be your friend,
In whatever you do,
And may trouble be always,
A stranger to you.
...more Irish Sayings and Blessings

Awake

Smell Of

A Shiny

Plumerias Drop

Pink Ixora

Pink Ixora Bloom use an an e greeting

Early Morning

Day Moon March 2010

Piercing Hot

Sangre Grande

day break--
white egrets fly toward
the sun rising

Twenty two days or so without rain. Dawn shadows playfully cajole the fleeting coolness of another soon to be hot Sunday, scenario, and dew glistens to unseeing eyes; our breaths, having breathed in the morning's coolness, we seat ourselves in the mini bus and head out; Feb 28th 2010 around 5:30 AM; to another of our churches; this year to Sangre Grande; " in the late 1770s, Spanish surveyors who were charting the island for the purposes of creating a map, found that the waters of two of the tributaries of the nearby Oropuche River were red as blood, hence the name Sangre Grande; Our agenda:-- church, workshop, then to Manzanilla beach and back, till next year and another retreat

the bush fire smoke
from the hills of Laventille smogs
the highway traffic

more about Sangre Grande here
2010 Retreat photos here


Retreat posts 2006 to 2009 click the label 'retreat'

Lent

Lent; Caribbean Kigo #01 Kukai; 2009 revisited

season of lent-
my shadow
thinner and thinner
-- Jacek Margolak; POLAND


the ash cross
smudged on his sleeve
season of Lent
--Michael Baribeau; USA


last day of lent -- - -
so many spring blossoms
waiting to open
--Karina Klesko; USA


lent-
in the wayside chapel
kneel the prostitutes
--Andrzej Dembonczyk; Silesia, Poland


payday friday night
too many dollars lent
fish chowder all gone
--Joseph B. Connolly ; Nevada, USA
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sizyun-sai touki karibu wo sinobi wori

lent festival
it reminds me
Caribbean far away
--Sakuon Nakamura; Japan


oko ponoci
zvono zove na pasticadu
prije Pepelnice

around midnight
a bellfry calls for pasticada
before Lent
--Tomislav Maretic; Poland



first day of lent
an upside-down squirrel
hangs onto the birdfeeder
--Cindy Tebo; USA



songs from carnival
are chased away by ashes
Lent has arrived.
--Corbelle Armando; USA


peacock eyes
under the lenten moon-
grass and grubs
--an'ya http://www.moonset-newspaper.com; US


After the Lent
all around the church
shells of red eggs
--Vasile Moldovan; Romania


Lent came to an end...
the blades of grass are rising
among the ruins too
-- Constantin Stroe; Romania


after the bacchanal...
lenten resolutions
for forty days
--Keith A. Simmonds; T & T


in the desert
temptation all around--
lent
--tori inu; JAPAN


Lent begins –
old stones in a shoe
gnaw at her sole
--Mary Davila; USA


Lent --
the cross is not yet
veiled
--Angelika Wienert; Germany



discussing lent
he has a third biscuit -
mother superior smiles
--John



cobwebs sway
where the mistletoe hung...
lent begins
--Ed Markowski; USA


18.
Question what is lent
Stuff swept from under beds
Answered Josh age 6
--Gynith Roberts; USA



unlit candle
the Lent Sacrifice box
empty
--Richard Krawiec; Raleigh, NC




be it borrowed, be it lent,
your pound of flesh
at stake
--Norman Darlington, Bunclody, Ireland



22.
the great harmonies...
Lent opens
with a dead language
--Daniel W. Schwerin Minister; First United Methodist Church; USA


haiku are the copyright of each individual writer
image © gillena cox 2010

much love
gillena cox; Kukai Coordinator

CKK now blogging at

Phagwa

a frenzy of colour
good overcometh evil
the dancers tale
--gillena cox


Internet image from http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/l/20/206097-phagwa-festival-of-colors-saint-augustine-trinidad-and-tobago.jpg

Phagwa is celebrated on the first day of the full moon in the month of Phagun (February to early March).
It came to Trinidad and Tobago with the arrival of Indian indentureship in 1845. The origin of Phagwa or Holi can be traced to the Hindu holy scriptures Vishnu Purana in which there is the story of an evil King Hiranyakashipu who wanted to destroy his own son Prahalad for worshipping God instead of he, King Hiranyakashipu. According to the scriptures, Hiranyakashipu then made a plot with his sister Holika to destroy the child Prahalad by fire, for being disobedient to him. Instead, Holika perished in the inferno while Prahalad survived, thus establishing victory for good deeds over evil ones. more here

Hugs

grand babies make
great hug partners
so i've heard
--gillena cox


Internet image from funnyimages.blogcu.com/.../2862126

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. ~ Jacques Prévert
more quote garden Hug Quotes here

Bubbles

standing at the curb
i watch
the sheer delight
on his face
--gillena cox


Internet image; Franz van Mieris (1635-1681). "A Boy blowing Bubbles" from oldprints.wordpress.com/

...the fragile soap bubbles exist only for a blink of an eye. In this sense, soap bubbles are associated with the transience of life...more here

Pony Tails

who can comprehend
carefree days of youth who would
munch snacks all day long
--gillena cox


Internet image; 'New Forest Pony' - photographer Tina Phillips; from free digital photos.net;

Watering

watering the lawn...a 2009 haiga

The Mountain Side

the mountain side
blotched
i know which trees
are pink poui
--gillena cox





photos--gillena cox

Cutting Lent

photo taken in 2009; haiku written 2010

Lent is a period of abstinence spaning forty week days, starting the day after Carnival Tuesday. The start of the season is called Ash Wednesday, many christian devotees, particularly of the Catholic persuasion, on this day receive ashes drawn on the forehead as a sign of willingness to observe this penitence.
Children being the creative creatures that they are, find their own way of including themselves into the season; as a child at primary school (i attended the Chaguanas Government Primary School ) we did what was called 'cutting lent' this involved making a bet to stop doing some specefic thing, and included the vigilance of friends; when the decision to abstain from a particular act was declared, participants offered their pinkies (littlest finger) which was locked with someone also involved in the bet; then the fingers were pulled apart; this meant the bet was cut.
After that act, during the period of Lent if anyone was caught doing was offered up in the abtinence bet, eg eating icecream, or sweets; whatever was given up; then that person was in for a good slap with the reminder in one word LENT.
I'm sure there must have been other ways of cutting lent in other schools or in other areas, but thats how we did it at 'my school'


cutting lent
we crossed fingers
school days
--gillena cox

Dancing Feet

dancing feet
young and old to the rhythm
of carnival
--gillena cox

Exorcising

jour ouvert, or day open starts the Carnival, one of the essentials for this revellery is mud This traditional part of Carnival starts at around 2 in the morning;
Its Carnival Monday in Trinidad and Tobago

SEE ALSO 2007 Jouvert Renga

St Valentine's Day 2010

two blue birds
sunshine
Saint Valentine's day
--gillena cox

Blue Grey Tanager, also called blue Jean in Trinidad and Tobago

HAPPY ST VALENTINES DAY TO ALL LUNCH BREAK VISITORS
dark chocolates, red wine, all great gifts for this occasion

ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity, which is the USDA's method of measuring a food's capacity to fight harmful free radicals in our bodies...read more...

Natalie Cole 'I Wish You Love'

On February 14 coincidently Chinese New Year, Year of the Tiger and Valentine’s Day falls on the same date..read more...

February Furls

Cheers

i'm so glad we have
the chance to do this again
Cheers! on my birthday
--gillena cox

Sorrel, traditionally is a Christmas drink for Trinbagonians; however many returning Trinis, for the Carnival Season, travel albeit, with their 'sorrel appetities', in the expectation that their families and friends would have still, a little kept back sorrel in the fridge from Christmas


CHEERS!!! enjoy the 'Sorrel Drinks' jigsaw puzzle; click to mix and solve