Sunday, January 31, 2021

2704

patterned mask
new glamour in the streets -
flattening the curve
© gillena cox 2021



 Sunday X of the new series '100 ways to haiku a mask '

Humble bow to

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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The year is moving on. Goodbye January. 

Happy the man who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with good sense 

Si 14:20

What's there to smile about today? Thank God for the grace of poetry 


SUNDAY SMILES

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Poets and Storytellers United
Writers' Pantry #55: Dance Break!



AND

this only once 
 snowflakes kissed my fingertips -
how wonderful

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this only once -
magic of vacation days 
a blanket of snow

snowflakes kissed my fingertips -
there i was wide-eyed
mouth agape

how wonderful -
 lightness of flurry descent
from the heavens
© gillena cox 2021





REVISIT
sumie Sunday 10
Sunday Standard #10
Sunday Lime #10


ENJOY THE MUSIC: Symphony No. 9 ~ Beethoven
He was inspired by the ideals of freedom and equality that were on display during the French Revolution, and his Ninth Symphony celebrates the ideas of brotherhood and fraternity. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was first performed on May 7, 1824, after he had completely lost his hearing

Friday, January 29, 2021

2703

haiga image : graphics from PicMonkey put on one of my old water colour pieces

zoom meeting -
another good reason
to dress up
© gillena cox 2021



More New Year Stickers. Created using PicsArt



BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH




REVISIT
MY post to PPF Week 48, Year 9
MY post to PPF Week 48, Year 8
MY post to PPF Week 47, Year 7



BON APPETIT 
A slice of cornmeal coo coo and a bowl of dhal and pumpkin soup
photo mine from my  archives

 




ENJOY THE ART VIDEO: Ella Fitzgerald - Nature Boy


Thursday, January 28, 2021

2702

On Elephantback: a digital collage
evening encroaching -
ripped banana fronds bend
with the wind in waves
© gillena cox 2021



Zeppelin Drop: a digital collage




Midnight Robber Charcoal drawing


The midnight Robber is one of the most recognizable Trinidad and Tobago traditional carnival characters. This dark and mysterious character is both loved and feared. If the ominous costume wasn't enough, he is well equipped with an elaborate speech which would terrify his audience into parting with his or her cash...
 


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 Mysterious and Dark

AND

REVISIT

28 January 2018
28 January 2014
28 January 2013



BON APPETIT 
photo mine from my  archives 
Tea AND Jollof Rice



ENJOY THE MUSIC 

Sunday, January 24, 2021

2700


 lamplight at nighttime -
are they in the same drawer
masks sock and ties
© gillena cox 2021



 Sunday IX of the new series '100 ways to haiku a mask '


Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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The Carnival Season of 2021 is happening in a new normal way. There will be no crowd activity. Lots of virtual events and of course the music sets the mood

Happy the man who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with good sense 

Si 14:20

What's there to smile about today? Thank God for the grace of poetry 


SUNDAY SMILES

my granddaughter Carnival 2020 


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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Writers’ Pantry #54:New Dawn



AND

neighbours in the hood
day and night reflect feathers
wise and mystical

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neighbours in the hood
conversations traverse 
aged picket fences

day and night reflect feathers
mice quiver
screech of a owl

wise and mystical
 poet verses embrace both
owl and raven 
© gillena cox 2021







ENJOY THE MUSIC

Friday, January 22, 2021

2699


the spaces between
backyard seated visitors
evening moon absent
© gillena cox 2021


MORE NEW YEAR STICKERS
 

 

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Board Games And Game Night




REVISIT
MY post to PPF Week 47, Year 9
MY post to PPF Week 47, Year 8
MY post to PPF Week 47, Year 7



BON APPETIT 
 APPLES
photo mine from my 2020 archives



ENJOY THE ART VIDEO 


Wednesday, January 20, 2021

2698

your arm crooked
now my arm slips through -
a dream at dawn ends

*

a kettle whistles
now for that cup of tea -
new years day

*
tea to start the day -
now bird songs predict the trends
for this new year
© gillena cox 2021



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I chose to  respond to the prompt word 'Hatsuyume' – the first dream of the new year


ENJOY THE MUSIC

Monday, January 18, 2021

2697



Another Lunch Break Anniversary Bash.
January 18th 2006 saw the first posting of Lunch Break a haiku and photo which was recently featured in 2020 HERE 

 
Fifteenth Anniversary today - a trip down memory lane with friends of Lunch Break

bird songs
including the rooster's crow
again dawn
--gillena cox 2006


during lunch break
a stitchaiga is born
January sunshine
--Bette Norcross Wappner  2007


Autumn night
her full face visits again
in a purple glow
--Angelika Kolompar 2008


The year of ox-
I wonder where
the muerte is
--Kuniharu Shimizu 2009
#muerte is the bullfighter's red cape


frenzied whistlers
kiskadees in the morning
silent sun rising
--gillena cox 2010 (posted 20th January 2010)


morning chill
awakened by the tremors
of a shivering earth
--Devika Jyothi 2011

school gate opens -
a snowball's trace
looks like a heart
--Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu 2012


heaven –
the journey
is the destination
--Bill Kenney 2013


Seven years
of magical renditions;
words forever
--Ramesh Sood 2014


twittering birds sing
of morning light, they banish
into yesterdays
the first crowing of roosters
those of a previous dawn
-- gillena cox 2015


lunch break—
inside the shell
a smooth pearl
--Stella Pierides, 2016


congratulations
tucked in my poem
a bouquet of flowers
--Madhuri Pillai 2017


her expectations
home for the carnival
homemade sorrel
-- gillena cox 2018


yellow Ixoras -
splurge of little blossoms
a splendid result
-- gillena cox 2019


half green half red
between Summer and Fall
sumac leaves
-- Marta Majorka Chociłowska 2020

Sunday, January 17, 2021

2696

white backyard seating -
vibrant coloured masks
of the visitors

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white backyard seating -
the vibrant colours  of 
 visitors masks
© gillena cox 2021



 Sunday VIII of the new series '100 ways to haiku a mask '


Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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The Dry Season of 2021 has been officially declared here in T&T by The Met Office

Happy the man who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with good sense 

Si 14:20

What's there to smile about today? Thank God for the grace of poetry (and maybe an omelet at breakfast)


SUNDAY SMILES


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Writers’ Pantry #53: The Bicentenary of Anne Brontë’s Birth


 ANNE BRONTË  - A Reminiscence

 (With my highlights for a found haiku)

 Yes, thou art gone and never more

Thy sunny smile shall gladden me;

But I may pass the old church door

And pace the floor that covers thee;

 

May stand upon the cold, damp stone,

And think that frozen lies below

The lightest heart that I have known,

The kindest I shall ever know.

 

Yet, though I cannot see thee more

'Tis still a comfort to have seen,

And though thy transient life is o'er

'Tis sweet to think that thou hast been;

 

To think a soul so near divine,

Within a form so angel fair

United to a heart like thine

Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

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(found haiku)
Yes, thou art gone
 lightest heart that I have known,
 soul so near divine
--gillena cox 


AND

GOSSIP - A Tanka
really, she did?
are you kidding me,
black stilettos!
to the backyard party,
and no face mask on.
© gillena cox 2021

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ENJOY THE MUSIC

Friday, January 15, 2021

2695

colour pencil drawing - Kiskadee we look with wonder -
morning sun rising to
kiskadee and i
© gillena cox 2021

MUSEUM MODE - colour pencil collage




More New Year Stickers  - digital creations

 





Here are some more of the cards i received for Year of The Ox 2009, New Year Card exchange by snail mail. I will show some more next Friday.




BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH


AND


REVISIT
MY post to PPF Week 46, Year 9
MY post to PPF Week 46, Year 8
MY post to PPF Week 45, Year 7



Bon Appetit - photo mine from my 2020 archives
apples, bananas, portugals



ENJOY THE ART VIDEO