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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

Stevens Wallace - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 

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

Sunday Muse #145

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

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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

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Paint Party Friday: Week 48, Year 10 

recuerda mi corazon

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

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

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once upon a time -

the list of revelry days

growing longer

© gillena cox 2020

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UseA Photo Or Part Of One


REVISIT
26 January 2020
26 January 2018
26January 2015

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 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 '

Humble bow to Stevens Wallace - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 

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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Poets and Storytellers United

Writers’ Pantry #54:New Dawn

AND

Sunday Muse #144

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

REVISIT
sumie Sunday #9
Sunday Standard #9
Sunday Lime #9

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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

MORE NEW YEAR STICKERS

 

 

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Paint Party Friday: Week 47, Year 10 

recuerda mi corazon

Thursday Art Date 

Board Games And Game Night

FAMILY

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 

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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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  Weekly Scribblings #53 Beautiful Words 

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

REVISIT
20 January 2019
20 January 2017
20 January 2014

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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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

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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 '

Humble bow to Stevens Wallace - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 

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

Poets and Storytellers United

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

Sunday Muse #143

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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REVISIT
sumie Sunday #8
Sunday Standard #8
Sunday Lime #8

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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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

Paint Party Friday: Week 46, Year 10 

AND

recuerda mi corazon

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