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[image from google dot com used for this haiga]


We were the very first set of entrants. It was the same year our country's independence was declared. We got pencils and candy and little red-white-and-black flags.
"Do you remember the rose garden used to be there?" "Yes, I remember the orangish-yellow one i planted; just like the sky over there." "I planted one also" he said, his smile still shy, in a much much older face.

Sahara dust
heavy in the dawn sky -
high school reunion

© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Reunions


Revisit
high school
13 September 2016
13 September 2015

27 comments:

  1. Hi Gillena, This is an interesting thought well captured.

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  2. So beautiful, Gillena.

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  3. You make the Haibun into a vivid memory, every part essential. There is no desert in your words. I enjoy the Haiga too.

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  4. Thanks for your appreciation Susan

    much love...

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  5. Thank you John

    much love...

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  6. I was born in Trinidad two years later!

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  7. Wow, how nice!!!
    thanks for dropping by again John.

    Much 😍 love

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  8. Well done, Gillena.

    Did you get any of hurricane Irma? Hope all is well.

    Adelaide

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Adelaide. We had some thunder showers. But Trinidad and Tobago was not in Irma's path

      Happy you dropped in

      Much 😍 love

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  9. What special memories! Thank you for sharing.

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    1. Thanks for dropping by Bev

      Much 😍 love

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  10. Your high school reunion sounds tender and romantic. I could feel the love there. Great write Gillena.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation JT

      Much 😍 love

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  11. Such lovely memories and thoughts. Enjoyed this Gillena.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Myrna

      Much 😍 love

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  12. Anonymous9:28 PM

    Takes me back too. Thank you

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Martin

      Much 😍 love

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  13. You make it sound quite nostalgic, and unique.

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Rosemary

      Much 😍 love

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  14. You said the unsaid without saying it, Gillena:) Wow! I loved it to the core..

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    1. Thanks for your appreciation Amit

      Much 😍 love

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  15. Aha...this is lovely! Beautifully done, Gellina!

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  16. Happy you dropped in Panchali

    much love...

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  17. Maybe it's because of the dust that I shunned my own high school reunion a few weeks ago. :)

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  18. (✿◠‿◠) thanks for dropping by MMT

    much love...

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  19. Smiling at this poem. "...his smile still shy, in a much much older face....". Just perfect!

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  20. so beautifully expressed

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