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[image courtesy Carpe Diem]


a drop of dew
sits on a rock
like a diamond

treasure of morning coolness
before the sun grips today
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[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
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[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
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[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
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bamboo
waving candlelight into the night
wind

nights of Divali lightings
the flicker of deya flames
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[image courtest Carpe Diem]


ants busy themselves
under a weeping willow
as old as the hills
© gillena cox
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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

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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


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Dont Leave Before You See Also
25 May 2015
25 May 2014
25 May 2013

2104

those old windows
filter for rays of sunlight
newness of each day
© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with

Mosaic Monday # 41

AND


Blue Monday - Footprint


Don't Leave Before You See Again
22 May 2014
22 May 2015
22 May 2016

2103

[image from google dot com]


slow pace of Sundays -
an ant crawls between newsprint
lost to many worlds
© gillena cox 2017


The rains are quietly slipping in mostly by night drizzles; not enough for cool days, just enough to tease.

Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]


None is travelling
Here along this way but I,
This autumn evening.
© Matsuo Bashō 1644-1694


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #37 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 #354


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon newsprint


AND

Weekend Challenge: The News

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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 37
Sunday Lime 37
21 May 2015

2102

layers of heat waves
the sip of bird songs
after earth tremors
© gillena cox 2017

There was an earthquake on Wednesday morning, the not so scary part of it is that I only knew about it, when I heard it on the news, later in the morning, Phew! slept through that one

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[Notice there is a recurred motif today the glass of straws from a few weeks back. Started with torn bits of glued newsprint to cardboard, added some buttons, and that cut out from a few weeks ago. Little line drawn birds, penciled in. Think i'll move out of newsprint pieces though. Next week starting some more water colour pieces. ✿ܓIn case you are wondering. I search for music after i finish my pieces ]

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[And now for a little digital fun. filter added using Pics Art]




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Blog hopping today with

Week 11 Year 7

Enjoy the Music


Don't Leave Before You See Again
19 May 2015

19 May 2013

19 May 2012

2101

[image courtesy Carpe Diem]


taste of nature–
sweet blackberry bushes
sing to child and bees

she falls scraping her knee
she scrambles up to catch up



[Dandelion image from google dot com]


dandelion dandelion
on the sandy beach
spring opens its eyes

summer vacation in London
the wafts from a chilly wind




Blog Hopping today with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #11 taste of nature (Sara McNulty)
taste of nature–
sweet blackberry bushes
sing to child and bees
© Sara McNulty

she falls scraping her knee
she scrambles up to catch up
© gillena cox


Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #12 dandelion, dandelion (Ogiwara Seisensui)

dandelion dandelion
on the sandy beach
spring opens its eyes
© Ogiwara Seisensui (1884-1976),

summer vacation in London
the wafts from a chilly wind
© gillena cox

2100

[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

2099

Mother's Day shoe sale
the pair of tan-brown wedges
tickles my fancy
© gillena cox 2017


A Happy Mothers Day, to all mothers


Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]

let us start picking --
don't drop herbs from your basket
or anything else!
© Den Sutejo (1633-1698)


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #36 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 #353


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon - mother


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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 36
Sunday Lime 36
Mother's day 2016

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Down Memory Lane
[Lunch at Benihana - Trincity Mall, Trinidad; Mother's day 2008]



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Shoe and Mother Quotes Shuffle
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers
~ Rudyard Kipling


Cinderella, I really do like. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl
~ Amy Adams


Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
~ Sophocles


I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes
~ Oprah Winfrey


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
~ William Makepeace Thackeray


You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes
~ Allan Sherman

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2098

[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

2097

[William de Wilde painting from google dot com]


Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari

The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt. Ishizuchi
is great in scale

the reach for a pencil
to note a TV recipe


[photo of my grand daughter December 2016]


two sets of footprints
in freshly fallen snow
one pair from Kyoto

her first winter vacation
and snow ready for her throw


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #8 The flower of a pumpkin (Tomiyashu Fusei)
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #7 two sets of footprints (Hamish Managua Gunn)


Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari

The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt. Ishizuchi
is great in scale

© Tomiyasu Fusei (1885 - 1979)

the reach for a pencil
to note a TV recipe
© gillena cox



two sets of footprints
in freshly fallen snow
one pair from Kyoto
© Hamish Managua Gunn

her first winter vacation
the snow ready for her throw
© gillena cox


Don't Leave Before You See Again
11 May 2011
11 May 2014

2096

[image courtesy google dot com]

first autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father's face.

thinking of folks back home
he stops to buy postcards

...

lightning one candle
with another candle
an evening in spring

sing alleluia cantors
Easter vigil has ended

...

[image courtesy Carpe Diem]

silent steps -
one more candle illuminates
the old chapel

she adjusts her head scarf
secured now with a hairpin




Blog hopping with
Carpe Diem - Tan Renga Challenge 2017

#6 first autumn morning (Murakami Kijo)
#5 silent steps


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first autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father's face.
© Murakami Kijo (1865-1938)

thinking of folks back home
he stops to buy post cards
©gillena cox

...

silent steps -
one more candle illuminates
the old chapel
© Ese

she adjusts her head scarf
secured now with a hairpin
© gillena cox

...

lightning one candle
with another candle
an evening in spring
© Buson (Tr. unknown)

sing alleluia cantors
Easter vigil has ended
© gillena cox


AND

The Tuesday Platform

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Don't Leave Before You See Again
9 May 2013
9 May 2011
9 May 2010

2095

CARS AND TREES

halt of wheels
filtered from the traffic stream -
spectacle of blooms
© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping with

Mosaic Monday # 39

2094

promise of still life
to set of new ink pencils -
sunset colours sky
© gillena cox 2017


Still in the Liturgical Season of Easter. Day Seven of May, we are well into our second week. Hope May is good to you all


Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset
© Matsuo Bashō 1644-1694


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #35 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 #352


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon - sunset


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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 35
Sunday Lime 35
7 May 2015