Lunch Break: December 2023

Sunday, December 31, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY SEVEN

old year's day memory -

scent of blackeyed peas and rice

would fill my kitchen

end of the year

starting a new list

of old resolutions

New Year's Eve

the baby Jesus found

in a fortune cookie

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Saturday, December 30, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY SIX

in Christmas sunshine

the kiskadee on the wall -

lingering a while

watering the tree

keeping alive the spirit

of Christmas

©Adelaide Shaw USA

Christmas journey

a skein of geese

unravel the sky

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Friday, December 29, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY FIVE

sadly tapping

news of my friend's passing -

Adjei Agyei-Baah

It was a great shock to us at facebook yesterday, to her of the death of our haiku friend, Ghanian Adjei Agyei-Baah who had been writing towards his doctorate in New Zealand. He passed away suddenly. RIP dear Adjei

[I am very fond of this contemplatve ku. This is from Adjei,s book 'Afriku: Haiku and Senryu from Ghana with a foreword by Hidenori Hiruta published in 2016 by RedMoon Press. I rceived the book in 2017 via snail mail; when we did a book swap]

morning dew -

perhaps heaven weeps

for mankind

Good Friday

the weight of the world

on His shoulders

the birth of Christ

the death of a friend

the upside-down world

©Adelaide Shaw USA

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Thursday, December 28, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY FOUR

coming my way

the many good wishes -

spirit of Christmas

foggy night

outdoor Christmas lights

twinkle me

©Adelaide Shaw USA

midnight mass---

the string of Christmas lights

on the highway

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY FOUR

coming my way

the many good wishes -

spirit of Christmas

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY THREE

merry wishes claimed -

feverish after Christmas

silence of predawn

A bright star leading

the shepherds to the manger…

no room in the inn

cloves---

the sticky sweetness

of Christmas oranges

Christmas cards

people i forgot

remember me

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY TWO

Christmas day ended

God's love continues shinning.-

the morning star

gillena cox; St James Trinidad

Christmas cookies

a nibble now, nibble later

and not just the mice

©Adelaide Shaw USA

shepherd's field

the sky full

of angelsong

©Susan Furst USA

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Monday, December 25, 2023

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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival.

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY ONE

stroke of midnight -

at last this Christmas night of

which joy is sung

gillena cox; St James Trinidad

Christmas morning -

a baby kiskadee bird

in my garden

i wasn't quick enought to take a photo. Here's a photo from the internet. At first i thought it was a hummingbird.

gillena cox; St James Trinidad

cloudless midnight

carolers offer an ancient song

of new life

Let us go forth, every day, pregnant with Jesus

Midnight---

Peace is born

in a stable

snow on Christmas

long ago memories

before climate change

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event

Sunday, December 24, 2023

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

I will be online until January 6th 2024; then i'll take a short break of a week, before i start blogging again.

Join me here to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas; starting December 25th.

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Sunday Post Card Art: TChristmas/ Yule/ Anything Goes

AND

Above Us Only Sky

Another bookcover featured this week. Another book written by me; with a haiku introducing one of the chapters

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a night so holy

with a child in a manger -

a star shines brightly

© gillena cox 2023

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WELCOME TO

Sunday 57 of Sunday Post Cards

Wishing all A Happy Month of November

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT

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SUNDAY SMILES

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

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ENJOY THE MUSIC

Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is ongoing

LISTEN

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LINKUP WITH A SMILE:

a poem, photo, or quote

Friday, December 22, 2023

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I wil be online until January 6th 2024; then i'll take a short break, before i start blogging again.

Join me here to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas; starting December 25th.

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Poinsettias in December - working with colour pencils

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Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #91

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ENJOY THE MUSIC

Our 2023 Season of 100 Days of Christmas hosted by our Radio Station Sweet 100.1 FM is on going

LISTEN

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The YUMMY Sorrel

is sorrel drink i made

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Above us only sky

BOOK COVER:

Anansi An Unusual Experience written by me for chilren

In the left top corner a group of children i read to

at the library near me year 2019

twinkle of stars -

somewhere in a manger

a baby sleeps

[this haiku introduces Chapter 5]

© gillena cox 2023

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12/22/23

I read last Thursday at The Port of Spain Children's Library my book 'A Pan For Christmas'

Thursday, December 21, 2023

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Wilma scores

at the cookie contest with

dinosaur cookies

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

🎨😋 🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date:Christmas cookies

YUMMY

Pumpkin bread

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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Christmas eve night

Santa tip toes to his sleigh -

the angels watch

TRANSPORT

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

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penguins in the snow -

all bundled up the neighbours

looking for a tree

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

REVISIT

Sunday, December 17, 2023

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Sunday Post Card Art: Tags/Labels

AND

Above Us Only Sky

For this image; the background is a morning sky photo taken from my backyard. I added free clipart stick people from the internet and stickers; composef at Picsart.

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