Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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they shed their guiding light in stardust and angelic song

 watching from afar with smiles and whispers always a dream away 

twinkling stars in the night sky how wonderful you are

© gillena cox 2021


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

TWO 





Tuesday, June 29, 2021

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setting sun
after a hard day of work -
to crochet time
© gillena cox 2021

 

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

REVISIT


setting sun
tired feet carries her home -
to crochet time
© gillena cox 2021



Sunday, June 27, 2021

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grocery sliding doors-
an usher wearing his mask
welcomes masked patrons
© gillena cox 2021


REVISIT
sumie Sunday 31
Sunday Standard 31
Sunday Lime 31




 Sunday XXXI of the series '100 ways to haiku a mask '

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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We are still in our third Lockdown and State of Emergency here in our efforts of 'flattening the curve'  vaccinations are continuing.

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Show us lord, your faithful love, grant us your saving help  (Psalm 85:7)

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

SUNDAY SMILES



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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
AND


ask Narcissus for he knows reflections are tricky nymphs
adept at  stealing souls to pine away hours of destiny
white wolf tired from his triumphs stops to drink of himself
REFLECTION - A SIJO © gillena cox 2021

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ENJOY THE MUSIC: Hymn of the Cherubim - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Extended



Friday, June 25, 2021

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Last Week's Spider Lily Buds 


Now Opened
white spider lilies -
pollen laden stamens 
  dance with the breeze
© gillena cox 2021 

BON APPETIT

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
REVISIT
my post to PPF 17/10
my post to PPF 17/9
my post to PPF 17/8

ENJOY THE ART VIDEO: Stacey Kent - Ces petits riens

Thursday, June 24, 2021

2786

 


pandemic lockdown -
brightening my morning
the bougainvillea
© gillena cox 2021


BON APPETIT

BLOGHOPPING TODAY WITH


REVISIT
24 June 2018
24 June 2016
24 June 2015

ENJOY THE MUSIC - Destra Garcia - Jumping

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Sunday, June 20, 2021

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 a new mask project -
the scissors snips carefully
around chalked lines
© gillena cox 2021



REVISIT
Sumie Sunday 30
Sunday Standard 30
Sunday Lime 30
Father's day 2020



 Sunday XXX of the series '100 ways to haiku a mask '

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY  to all fathers visiting today

We are still in our third Lockdown and State of Emergency here in our efforts of 'flattening the curve'  vaccinations are continuing.

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Show us lord, your faithful love, grant us your saving help  (Psalm 85:7)

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

SUNDAY SMILES



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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 
Writers’ Pantry #75: I Just Want to Celebrate

AND

shadows cling as if opened  doors be enemies of stars
who comes or who goes determines hue of morning's  mist encroaching
day moon in waning silence steals words spoken in regret
SHADOWS - A SIJO © gillena cox 2021

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ENJOY THE MUSIC: Beethoven - Silence

Friday, June 18, 2021

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Summer With A Smile

spider lily: a study in water colour 20210618









cradled in green
the spider lily buds
still asleep
© gillena cox 2021


BON APPETIT
gillena cox photos - callalo soup with eddoes


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Thursday, June 17, 2021

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BLOG HOPPING WITH
Today's  prompt at Rain's art date  is inventions.

And my now Thursday hostess here at Lunch Break,  Betty Boop is today sporting a  critical wardrobe invention the eyeglasses.

 Do you wear glasses? 

Though you do not see me in my photos with glasses, i have been wearing glasses since age eleven.

  [haiku of a past experience]

 oh my glasses

twisted after falling asleep

wearing them

© gillena cox 2021


Some info on this invention HERE 


REVISIT
17 June 2018
17 June 2016
17 June 2015

BON APPETIT

apple


boiled green fig with a saltfish and tomato stew
[in T&T we called the green  bananas for cooking - green fig]



ENJOY THE MUSIC: BLACKPINK - Reinvent Your World