Monday, January 30, 2017

Sunday, January 29, 2017

2036

Kim Russell over at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads has prompted us to Condense a Poem, the poem she has chosen is Pablo Neruda's 'Sweetness, always'
When i read the poem, i took from it the motifs of: writing, distance, places and appeal to the sense of taste and used them to go back in time and then come forward with today's haibun 'RENHAI RENDEZVOUS'
Process Note: Adhering to Classical Haibun which is always written in the present tense.


[that's us at the mall - a 2015 photo]

RENHAI RENDEZVOUS
My poet friend from Canada, the one who has created the form rehnai, comes to Trinidad, its year 2015. He is here to attend the wedding of a relative. We agree to meet at West Mall to sit and write a renhai together, What fun! my first time meeting him in person. A little more of this rendezvous here

sweet vanilla chai -
feed me your renhai verses
spoken in low tones

RENHAI RENDEZVOUS © gillena cox 2017

Its hot and bright today perfect carnival time sunshine
Sunday Smiles



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #21 in the series, The Sunday Standard, when a 5-7-5 haiku is featured. How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping at

Poetry Pantry #338


AND


Recuerda Mi Corazon
haiku my heart ~ rendezvous

AND


Carpe Diem
#1139 listening

Revisit
29th Jan 2016
Sunday Lime 21
Sunday Savvy 21



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Friday, January 27, 2017

2035


[Pink - drawing on a photo using Picsart]

a smile
there she was dancing
in pink

© gillena cox 2017







Blog hopping today with


Week 47 Year 6

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

2034



morning painted sky -
a bit of pale orange where
yesterday pale blue

© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping today with
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Midweek Motif ~ Change

AND

Carpe Diem
#1134 beyond control

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

2033



dry season blessings -
between the chant of raindrops
radio music

© gillena cox 2017

Revisit
22th Jan 2016
Sunday Lime 20
Sunday Savvy 20

Its raining today, it rained yesterday too

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #20 in the series, The Sunday Standard, when a 5-7-5 haiku is featured. How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping at

Poetry Pantry #337


AND


Recuerda Mi Corazon
haiku my heart ~ wonders

AND


Carpe Diem
#1131 Meditation

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Saturday, January 21, 2017

2032



turning to witness -
without a sound
a flower dropping

© gillena cox 2017


blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
#1130 Intuition

Friday, January 20, 2017

2031



a page turned -
reading in soft morning light
a flower drops
© gillena cox 2017


Linking to
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
On Poetry, Writing & Metaphor - Dreaming with Stacie

AND

Week 46, Year 6





[here i added a PicArt filter]
click images for larger views

I followed and continued in the frieze at
Girl with balloons and the Mandela effect

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

2030


soft rays of sunlight
in oneness with bird songs
morning takes shape

© gillena cox 2017


Revisit
first blog post 2006
tenth anniversary
anniversary celebration 2015



Its Lunch Break's 11th blog Anniversary Join the celebration


anniversary
the bartender serves champagne
to the audience
© Art Kingston, London

congratulations
tucked in my poem
a bouquet of flowers
© Madhuri Pillai, Australia


© Pat Geyer, USA



© Ernesto Santiago, Greece



Seasons twirling
along colors of wind
verses are but gifts.
© Sanaa Rizvi, Malaysia


reflections on
this poetry page
silence between stars
© Vibeke Laier, Denmark



© Stella Pierides, UK


white clouds . . .
celebrating with a bowl
of popcorn
© Chrissi Villa, California


Poems and images remain the copyright of individual writers


Also blog hopping today at

Midweek Motif ~ Unity

AND

Carpe Diem #1128 Imagine the Road to Santiago


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Monday, January 16, 2017

2029


twittering birds
a fish scale morning moon
her silent stare
the pages of a book turned
a corner of the garden

© gillena cox 2017

blog hopping today at

Heronswood summer flower

AND


Summer life


Sunday, January 15, 2017

2028



dry season the wind
at my toes ruffling leaves -
garden: place to read

© gillena cox 2017

Revisit
15th Jan 2015
Sunday Lime 19
Sunday Savvy 19

Hot days in the season of Carnival

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #19 in the series, The Sunday Standard, when a 5-7-5 haiku is featured. How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping at

Poetry Pantry #336

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Saturday, January 14, 2017

2027



clouds shaping morning -
lemon seeds fall into earth
from my hands
© gillena cox 2017


hashtag lemons seeds to small pot


linking to

#413

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Recuerda Mi Corazon
haiku my heart ~ lemon seeds

AND

Blue Monday


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Friday, January 13, 2017

2026



The grackle is a common place blackbird, i find them quite charming and elegant with their long extravagant tails. They skip on my wall, and swoop down when the lawn grass is freshly cut. Maybe they like the scent of cut grass. On the wall they are brave and curious at the same time. I never tire of looking at them. I talk to them sometimes, they draw nearer when they hear my voice. They whistle outside my closed window. I peek at them behind the closed panes.

a moon ripened -
in the eye of a grackle
a stare defiant
© gillena cox 2017




[a little water colour added]


[quick charcoal sketch]
My Black Friday dossier. Happy Friday 13th.


Blog hopping today at

Week 45 Year 6

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Prompt Nights –
Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching – [38]

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