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

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad


end of the year

starting a new list

of old resolutions

© Adelaide Shaw USA


New Year's Eve

the baby Jesus found

in a fortune cookie

©  Susan Furst; USA


© Rick Daddario;  USA



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

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad


watering the tree

keeping alive the spirit

of Christmas

©Adelaide Shaw USA


Christmas journey

a skein of geese 

unravel the sky

©  Susan Furst; USA


© Rick Daddario;  USA









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

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad


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

© Adjei Agyei-Baah


Good Friday

the weight of the world

on His shoulders

©  Susan Furst; USA


the birth of Christ

the death of a friend

the upside-down world

©Adelaide Shaw USA


© Rick Daddario;  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

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad


foggy night

outdoor Christmas lights

twinkle me 

©Adelaide Shaw USA


midnight mass---

the string of Christmas lights

on the highway

©  Susan Furst; USA


© Rick Daddario;  USA




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

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad



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

 © gillena  cox; St James Trinidad


© Rick Daddario;  USA


© Susan Delphine Delaney ;  USA


A bright star leading       

the shepherds to the manger…

no room in the inn

© Keith Simmonds; France


cloves---

the sticky sweetness

of Christmas oranges

©  Susan Furst; USA


Christmas cards 

people i forgot

remember me

©  Adelaide Shaw; USA


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

© Rick Daddario. 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 
© Rick Daddario; US

Let us go forth, every day, pregnant with Jesus 
© Susan Delphine Delaney; US

Midnight---
Peace is born
in a stable 
© Susan Furst; US

snow on Christmas
long ago memories
before climate change 
© Adelaide Shaw; Canada
 


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

AND


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

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 

REVISIT




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

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

REVISIT AFFF 90

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

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The YUMMY Sorrel
is sorrel drink i made




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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

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





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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#digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart
Wilma scores
at the cookie contest with
dinosaur cookies
© gillena cox 2023


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

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


YUMMY

  Pumpkin bread

gillenacoxphotos2023


REVISIT

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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 digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart


Christmas eve night 
Santa tip toes to his sleigh -
the angels watch
© gillena cox 2023

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

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© gillena cox 2023 created at Picsart


 
penguins in the snow -

all bundled up the neighbours

looking for a tree

© gillena cox 2023



BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH


REVISIT

Sunday, December 17, 2023

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

AND


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







in the desert =
is the camel smiling
striding through
© gillena cox 2023

WELCOME TO

Sunday 56 of Sunday Post Cards
Wishing all A Happy Month of November

Tell me about your Sunday  email me  OR post a COMMENT 

REVISIT


SUNDAY SMILES 

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

❧✿❧

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

LINKUP WITH A SMILE IN A POEM QUOTE 

Friday, December 15, 2023

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Poinsettias in December - working with colour pencils



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Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #90

REVISIT AFFF 89

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

❧✿❧
The YUMMY Sorrel
is sorrel drink i made



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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
one of my photos digitally altered at Picsart

angels on high -
the busyness of morning
as daylight brightens
photo and haiku © gillena cox 2023


BOOK COVERS
3 books written by me for children

Available from online booksellers