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image from Style Junkee

TIME OUT
first snowflake, the front door slightly ajar
a howling wind, i curve into my conscious self
Santa his cherry cheeks, mall decor delights
a familiar face oh, but no smiles in cold weather
hot chocolate, cinnamon sprinkled marshmallows
subway passengers, head scarved coat wrapped
gifts in gift boxes, no extra paper wrappings
relatives, names etched in each post card sent
busy bees phone to say, see ya next time
numbers dates flights, airport signs and waves
three syllables at Arrivals Counter, returning
in the reality of greenness, hankering for home
--gillena cox



I am blog hopping today at

Poetry Jam prompt - 'Time'


Carpe Diem #437, Desire

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trees - Woodford Square, Port of Spain

colours of blossoms
renewing our landscape...
exit month of March

parched dry days ensue
clouds hold the rain chrysalis
Sunday savvy
--gillena cox


Today in Trinidad and Tobago, Spiritual Baptists are observing 'Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day'; the only country in the world, which celebrates a public holiday for persons of this faith

revisit Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day 2013


Happy Holiday from Lunch Break Sunday Smiles



Today is #99 in the series Sunday Savvy: revisit Sunday Savvy #98 What's your Sunday thought, Sunday wish, Sunday action today To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below




I am blog hopping today at



Carpe Diem #434, Okubo-ji (temple 88)


Recuerda Mi Corazon Post Cards From Paradise




Monday Mellow Yellows


Blue Monday

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holiday Monday in Trinidad and Tobago

Salybia Jigsaw Puzzle
click to play the puzzle - Enjoy!


centuries ago
out of the river Jordan...
The Messiah sealed
-- gillena cox



I am blog hopping today at

6WS


Carpe Diem #433, Nagao-ji (temple 87)


the last steps taken
to find universal love -
the sound of rain
--(c) Chèvrefeuille

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a flower opens
unfurling joy unspoken
petals catch the light
-- gillena cox

I am blog hopping today at

PPF: Week 3, Year 4


Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart - Suddenly


Carpe Diem Special #84, The Way of St. James (part 10)

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colours of leisure
spread a gingham picnic cloth
pop! the wine opened
-- gillena cox



I am blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart - eternal


Sky Watch Friday


Carpe Diem Special #83, The Way of St. James (part 9)


"I fought with all my strength to keep my hands and feet anchored to their holds, but the
noise of the water seemed to take me to another place. It was a mysterious and distant place where nothing that was happening at that moment was at all important, and it was a place that I could get to if I had the strength.[Carpe Diem]

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abstracted from
the market stall colours...
of carnival

Carnival Saturday...
early blooming pink poui
colours the scene

--gillena cox

Its Renku Saturday #51; revisit Renku Saturday #50

Link a haiku from your blog using the Linky below




Carnival Saturday Early Blooming Pink Poui --gillena cox

Linking today to


AND

the cooing of pigeons
between blooming cherry trees -
the cool rain
--(c) Chèvrefeuille

Carpe Diem #411, Kanjizai-ji (Temple 41)

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grasping solitude -
the many thoughts that can be
written on the wind
-- gillena cox



Linking today to
Carpe Diem #405, Zenjibuji (Temple 32)

It maybe well here to note the use of words in Zen, the way in which silence and speech are one thing. In all true Zen language and conversation, that is to say, whenever two minds are really in communion, any given word connotes its logical opposite as well. So if we say "selflessness", it means, in conjunction, "selffulness". "Loneliness" is also a state of interpenetration with all other things. Thus Basho (1644-1694) says, aspiring to be in this state:

ah, Kankodori,
deepen thou
my loneliness

Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart Fridays


Friday Haiku

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were diamonds to spark
only from the pendant of
a sole clasped bosom
--gillena cox

Click below to read my other poem titled
'Olympia'


Linking today to
Poetry Jam prompt - 'Olypmics'


Carpe Diem Special #78, Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela (or The Way of St. James)


secrets revealed
in a magical and mysterious way -
the sound of babbling water

the sound of babbling water
brings the mind into ecstasy
secrets revealed
--Chèvrefeuille

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patterned ... in the heart of love
furls of ... encounters
-- gillena cox


(i received this flower on my Facebook wall)


(table setting at Nalis St James Book Club meeting yesterday, we celebrated 3 birthdays and St Valentine's Day)



Happy St Valentine's Day to all Lunch Break friends, fans and visitors


Linking today to PPF Week 49, Year 3


Orange You Glad It’s Friday! Week 77


Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart Friday


i heart macro


Carpe Diem #400, Hatsumisakiji (Temple 24)


feeling proud
one single red rose on a vase -
everlasting love
(c) Chèvrefeuille

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image from google.com

Tuesday was my birthday, and yesterday afternoon, my daughter took me out to tea

leaving the tea shop...
allure of sound of water
to a small fountain
-- gillena cox





Linking today to
Carpe Diem #77, Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela or The Way of St. James

between the rocks
a marmotte is hiding for the sun -
a skylark's song
(c)Chèvrefeuille



Share Your Cup Thursday #91


Little Things Thursday