1968

yellow ixoras -
choir of frenzied bird songs
reclaims clear morning
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
coolness of evening...
yellow center of felled
plumeria
20130527

sunshine yellow...
the interludes of silence
butterflies sketch
20140915

vibrant swirls
on a sunny day -
resonance
20151123



['Girl With Yellow Hair Clips' - charcoal sketch on 12x12 inches scrapbook grey page, yellow paper cut outs were added for the hair clips]



Blog hopping today at

Week 30 Year 6

AND

September 2016

AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - reclaiming


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[my video choice for today 'Imagine' - Ray Charles]

won't take a minute
sharpening my pencil -
how vast is our sky
© gillena cox 2016

in the meantime; enjoy!!!

Paper Windmill Jigsaw Puzzle

1966

[click for macro view]

rumbling thunder -
what's left of a clear morning
in a window framed
© gillena cox 2016

Blog hopping today at

Macro Monday 2 a little man

AND


Blue MondayFlower show

1965

[image from yahoo dot com]

a rumbling sky
quench for thirsty dry rot minds -
anniversary
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit

contemplating gratefulness
Republic Day holiday
20150924

morning sky...
a prayer takes wings to soar
beyond clouds
20130924

day moon...
the pain of yesteryears
fades into wisdom
20130924

Yesterday Saturday 24th September was Republic Day here in T&T; our 40th year anniversary

and trending in the news

Opposition walks out after clash with Speaker READ MORE HERE


Sunday Smiles

[ladybug smile from yahoo dot com]

Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #03 in the series The Sunday Standard here's wishing you a blessed Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #321


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[my video choice for today - God Bless Our Nation]

1964

morning never late -
secured in each other's wish
coffee would be nice
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
taste of morning
sweet bird twitters mouth
fresh awakening
20150517

this pelting rain
beads its cadence to my roof
morning courses in
20140711

this morning's blue moon
waning
orange
20120903



[gouache paints on water colour paper 5 x 7 inches]


[pencil sketches]


Blog hopping today at

Week 29 Year 6

AND

September 2016

AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - morning


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[my video choice for today

1963

[photo -Annadale Waterfall, Grenada from Yahoo dot com]

sound of water
accepting more of itself -
rocky waterfall

time passing in water gushing
sounding its being continues

waterfall near rocks -
accepting more of itself
sound of water
© gillena cox 2016


night falls -
the sound of a little waterfall
lovely
20160515

only the sound of
gushing waters no crickets
nor cicadas
20150829

falls of Maracas
dissolve sweat of the hike -
food and picong
20146803


Kristjaan's prompts for Jane's Legacy continues
Blog hopping at Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem #1061waterfall

twilight
among early stars
sea bird's cry
© Jane Reichhold

in the twilight
only the song of cicadas -
my love's breathing
© Chèvrefeuille

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[my video choice today]

1962

disappearing tail -
cat stalking the shadows
at twilight
© gillena cox


Revisit

twilight clouds
there are ants crawling
across a wall
20101201

1790
with twilight comes
a drama of deyas lit -
divali mystique
20151110


1615
scent of twilight
white crepe jasmines
at the front gate
20150308



Kristjaan's prompts for Janes Legacy continues
Blog hopping at Carpe Diem #1060 twilight


twilight
among early stars
sea bird's cry
© Jane Reichhold

in the twilight
only the song of cicadas -
my love's breathing
© Chèvrefeuille

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[my video choice today]

1961

velvet smooth petals
open to sun moon and stars -
plumeria praise
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
Sunday savvy -
wiping spilt sugar of
the kitchen counter
Sunday Savvy 2

remaining tree stump -
relic of years beholden to
observing clouds drift
Sunday Lime 2

mornings reoccur -
peace questions the wildflowers
striving without care
Sunday Standard 1


Sunday Smiles

Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #02 in the series The Sunday Standard 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 #320


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my video of choice for today

1960

a group of smiles
poolside on a sunny day -
blue plumbagos
add charm in blooming petals
water splashes tease the sky
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
Corpus Christi
under a stone ants scurry -
planting plumbagos
Corpus Christi 2010

the plumbagos
even their stems
blue
Renku Saturday 28

first rains -
the delight of plumbagos
dancing in the wind
20150530






Week 28 Year 6

AND

September 2016

AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - blue plumbago


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[my video choice for today]

1959

[image from google dot com]

some at prayer heads bowed -
a shaft of sunlight enters
through stained glass windows
© gillena cox

Revisit
'Pater Noster'
a statement a prayer
of humility
Pater Noster

first light ...
dawn dissolves in a gesture
of giving thanks
20140207

long after visitors leave
colourful furl of prayer flags
20131114



Kristjaan's prompts for Jane's Legacy continues

Carpe Diem #1053 worship

to a beach of stones
we carry a boat of blossom
afloat of prayers
© Jane Reichhold

at sunrise
a choir of birds
sings praise
© Chèvrefeuille

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[my video choice for today]

1958

chairs on the beach -
who needs them when waves
call to frolic

setting sun -
golden swatches swad
evening sky
© gillena cox


Revisit
the sound of water -
clouds settle in between
laughter of children
20151108

in the diner's lounge
an aquarium -
koi resting
20121107

morning rain..
the nonchalance of one dove
on a wire
20131002


Responses to Kristjaan's prompts for Jane's Legacy



Carpe Diem #1052 Happiness

summer fresh
my hair washed 
in sunshine
© Jane Reichhold

after the rainstorm
I sit down on the porch
smelling the fresh air
© Chèvrefeuille


Carpe Diem #1051 Calm

a certain calm
in summer's passing
flowers
© Jane Reichhold

her gentle spirit
the calm of an early morning
a bird's song
© Chèvrefeuille

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[my video choice for today]

1957

[image from Pinterest]

where candles flicker
shock and horror visited -
hearts weep for lost ones

fifteen years ago
the face of history changed -
World Trade center bombed

mornings reoccur -
peace questions the wildflowers
striving without care
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
Sunday savvy
haiku friends e-chat ~
a cup of tea
Sunday Savvy 1

nine eleven
only love forges futures -
Sunday savvy
Sunday Savvy 5

warmth of sun -
my companions
songs of birds
Sunday Lime 1

Welcome to the first Episode of The Sunday Standard. In these sessions new haiku written will
follow the go schichi go or 5-7-5 syllable count and will appear in three lines

today, Sunday Smiles are smiles of hope



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #01 in the series The Sunday Standard. 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 #319


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - let there be love


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my song of choice for today

1956

pinched leaf -
smell of
Jamacian thyme
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
old friends...
smiles of remembrances
surface
20130824

heat of today...
brightness of cumulus
20130928

pinwheel jasmines
morning twirled
in twitterings
20130817


Blog hopping today at

#396

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[my video choice for today]

1955

['The Book Review' gouache paints on water-colour paper 5"x7"]

We meet to discuss the Alchemist. i had not yet read it, so i collect a copy to read after. What i did though, was familiarize myself with the novel, through internet searches. Not having been to book club meeting for quite a few months, i am glad of my decision to attend when i get there, armed, with my dish of just cooked cornmeal coo coo with ochroes. So, when codes of: fantasy, Personal Legends, Urmin and Thummim, Soul of the World, Language of the World, Elixir of Life, omens, maktub; are tossed into the web of discussion, no way am i lost.

everyone talking
at the same time; the pop
of fake champagne
© gillena cox 2016




Revisit
apple cinnamon
flavors ...
conversations at
our book club meet
20130111

book club meeting -
we eat cake celebrating
a birthday
20111125

readers/writers meet -
in a jug of water
ice cubes are melting
20110528


Glossary
corn meal coo coo - made with cormeal cooked in coconut milk, similar to polenta
[this image from google dot com]



Blog hopping today at

Week 27, Year 6

AND

Sept 2016

[my video choice for today]

1954

[This variety of morning glories in the photo, open in the morning and by noon they close up]

morning glories -
wind songs lure them to furling
for a short span
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit

they furl like cloud puffs ...
morning glory look-alikes
loving rainy days
20150820

in the shadow of
a wildflower...
my gaze
20130908

unscented and wild
a flower filing senses
with lavender thoughts
20090819



Blog hopping today at

Midweek Motif ~ Blooms (noun)
prompted by Susan

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[my video choice for today]

1953

[image courtesy Carpe Diem]

dark sky -
bird tweets announce
the dawn
© gillena cox

Revisit
a screeching cat
a yelping dog -
silence of the dawn again
20100930

dawn
that broom sweeping into the silence
belongs to the streetsweeper
20100928

scent of jasmines
fill the void of days dawning -
a rooster crows
20100929


Blog hopping today at

Carpe Diem #1046 dawn

the sound of waves
on you sleeping face
dawn light
© Jane Reichhold

daylight brightens
a rooster crows his sun greet
the silence deepens
© Chèvrefeuille

1952

[bird of paradise flower from google dot com]

departing spring
the cherish of memories
left to savour
© gillena cox


blog hopping today at

Carpe Diem #1045 departing spring

[Kristjaan who proposed this prompt for today explains - Jane brought something new to my haiku as I got to know her. She brought beauty and simplicity into my haiku ... she gave my haiku new life. New life is spring, but now ... with the passing away of Jane ... that new life starts to depart from my haiku. It feels like a lack of inspiration, a writer's block ... so departing spring is to me more than what it says]

in deep silence
drizzling rain
rustling of leaves
© Chèvrefeuille


departing spring
to remember the words
I hum the tune
© Jane Reichhold