Saturday, April 08, 2017

2077

[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
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
Hope and the Places That Heal You


See again
8 April 2015
8 April 2014
8 April 2013


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Carpe Diem
#1194 Cherry Blossom (Sakura)

Friday, April 07, 2017

2076




[Continuing with my newsprint series today: water colour quick sketching]









bice hostess sky -
in lofty conversation
kites party

© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with
Week 5 Year 7


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Dont leave before you see again
7 April 2014
7 Apr 2013
7 Apr 2012

Thursday, April 06, 2017

2075



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

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

2074



gusty winds –
the brightness of April sun
in children smiles

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April saunters in –
thrusts of windy gusts spill
carpets of blossom

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Sahara Dust clouds
kites swerve and dive as
April enters

© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping with

Mosaic Monday # 34
The Good, the Random and the Fun

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Carpe Diem
#1185 mirage (miraajuu)

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Midweek Motif ~ April


Don't Leave Before You See Again
4April 2014

4April 2013

4April 201



Sunday, April 02, 2017

2073


meadow greenscaped -
wildflowers inches upright
vying picking hands

© gillena cox 2017


Happy Season of Lent AND Sunday Smiles




From the mind
of a single, long vine
one hundred opening lives!
Chiyoni (1703-1775)


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #30 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 #347


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Recuerda Mi Corazon - vying



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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy #30

Sunday Lime #30

2 April 2015

Thursday, March 30, 2017

2072



horses at pasture
morning sun lingers behind
misty clumps of clouds

© gillena cox 2017




Blog hopping today with
Fences
around the world 12

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The origins and early development of the Spiritual Shouter Baptist Religion in Trinidad and Tobago are not well known but the consensus is that the religion developed among the people of African descent during the Nineteenth Century...
READ MORE at the nalis site
HAPPY HOLIDAY T&T
Today is Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Don't Leave Before You See Also
30 March 2016

30 March 2014

30 March 2013








Sunday, March 26, 2017

2071

[images from google dot com]


shy is sun at dawn -
fingers roll each rosary bead
praying in world peace

© gillena cox 2017


Happy Season of Lent AND Sunday Smiles



[tama-suri-no zayu ni hiraku tsubaki kana]
Unfolding at the
hand of the glass polisher:
a camellia!
Buson (1716 - 1784 )


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #29 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 #346


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Recuerda Mi Corazon - fingering beads



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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy #29

Sunday Lime #29

26 march 2015

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Sunday, March 19, 2017

2068



torn banana fronds
wings flutter as morning lights
a birds departure

© gillena cox 2017


Two day after St Patrick's Day and still keeping it green here at Lunch Break. Hope you had a nice St Paddy's Day

March, brings with her Spring attributes; and here in T&T, this year, the season of Lent
Happy Season of Lent AND Sunday Smiles



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #28 in the series The Sunday Standard when a 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 #345


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Recuerda Mi Corazon - banana frond



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Enjoy The Music


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Don't Leave Before You See Also

Sunday Lime #28

Sunday Savvy #28

19th March 2016

Saturday, March 18, 2017

2067



golden grackle-eyes -
tiny creatures crawl about
the pecking green grass

© gillena cox 2017


My Saint Patrick's Day 2017 post is one day late. Hope you had a nice Day yesterday


Blog hopping today with
Week 2, Year 7

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Enjoy the music


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See Also

Of Rainbows

Where's Your Halo

White Smoke

Thursday, March 16, 2017

2066



warmth of her old eyes
asking a little kindness -
old streets new to some

old streets new to some -
she asking for directions
warmth of her old eyes

--© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping with
Midweek Motif
The Kindness of Strangers
prompted by Susan



Monday, March 13, 2017

2065



profusion
blooming
yellow ixoras

tis the month of March
in some climes Spring time
buds burst open

dry season
in the tropics
still today rain

cloud blanket
offers an overcast
no bird songs

bright umbrellas
will have to do their part
adding cherry notes

© gillena cox 2017

Blog hopping today with


Quadrille #28

AND


#31 Vintage French

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Revisit
13 March 2016
13 March 2015
13 March 2013

Sunday, March 12, 2017

2064

[Daffodil flower and smiley from google dot com]


words dance in my mind
so early in the morning -
daffodil dazzled

© gillena cox 2017


Ever considered The Daffodil as a Lenten flower? well
Legend has it the Daffodil first appeared in the Garden of Gethsemane, during the event of The Last Supper, it was a sign of great sorrow, and hope for better things to come. In England Daffodils are known as Lent Lilies. And, in Medieval times, it was believed that if a Daffodil drooped or wilted while you were watching, it was an omen of death.

My favourite Daffodil poem is by William Wordsworth
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Read the whole poem HERE


March, brings with her Spring attributes; and here in T&T, this year, the season of Lent
Happy Season of Lent AND Sunday Smiles




Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #27 in the series The Sunday Standard when a 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 #344


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Recuerda Mi Corazon - Lenten Lily



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Enjoy The Music


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Don't Leave Before You See Also

Sunday Lime #27

Sunday Savvy #27

12th March 2015

Friday, March 10, 2017

2063





we bite their heads off -
lime and cherry gummy worm
the one she gave me

© gillena cox 2017


[digital art today folks click for larger views]



Blog hopping today with
PPF March 10TH 2016

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For more of Zee click
1713

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1693

1698

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Don't leave before you see also
10 March 2016

10 March 2013

10 March 2012

Wednesday, March 08, 2017

2062

Click to Mix and Solve
[click to play the puzzle on line]

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a girl stands to look
there's a red hibiscus hedge
right across the street

she plucks a blossom
always a skip in her step
on her way to school

II
roses she receives
bring a blush to her cheek
and promises too

settled in a few
guava fruit ripen sweetly
cozy comforts new

time never stands still
there are highs and there are low
the graph that life charts

III
yes she is bold enough
so she plants other flowers
and the bird love them

she can offer now
bird songs and hibiscus games
ever happily

© gillena cox 2017


Happy International Women's Day


Blog hopping today with
Midweek Motif
A Woman's Day: Be Bold For Change

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Enjoy The Music


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Quote Share
“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance, and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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before you leave
SEE ALSO


Womens Day 2016

Womens Day 2015

Womens Day 2014