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winners one two three

receive Olympic medals -

proud wearers in masks

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

sumie Sunday 37

Sunday Standard 37

Sunday Lime 37

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

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. [Psalm 124:8]

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

SUNDAY SMILES

image from a google search

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Writers’ Pantry #82: 

Here In My Car

AND

Sunday Muse #172

the empty birdcage -

morning entraps bird song

to shape of today

© gillena cox 2021

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ENJOY THE MUSIC:Lyrikal - Happy Place (Official Music Video)

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Olympics team -

proudly they wear the mask -

flags held high

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

bronze for T&T in 2016
sumie Sunday 35

Sunday Standard 35

Sunday Lime 35

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

Our Olympics Team is in Tokyo

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. [Psalm 124:8]

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 #80: The Struggle Is Real

AND

Sunday Muse #170

we humans cry tears -

our eyes like lakes leak  the

secrets internal

we humans cry tears

of  two-eyed sensitivities ~

our pain and joy

we humans cry tears

of the two-eyed sufferers ~

life you know is real

© gillena cox 2021

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Kelly-Ann Baptiste leads the way for Trinidad and Tobago at the Tokyo Olympics  July 2021 opening ceremony[image from a google search]

ENJOY THE MUSIC: David Rudder - Trini To De Bone [SOCA]

1944

fading dreams -
a flower wilting
stirs a tear

bright the gold -
albeit somewhere passion
stirs a tear

future days -
achievement in hope stored
stirs a tear


gratitude -
our bronze replete
stirs a tear
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
amazement
Sunday Savvy #98 when the Sunday meme began here at Lunch break
Sunday Lime 1

Congrats to Keshorn Walcott, T&T's only medalist [Bronze] in this 2016 Olympics. And; it's closing time this Sunday, for the Olympics 2016. Happy, sad, determined, satisfied, fired up: all these emotions add to the pot of expectations being already stirred to 2020 Tokyo. Cheers!

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #98 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below





Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #316


AND

Carpe Diem #1030 path

inspiration quote prompted by Kristjaan:
"Ah…and then there’s the path, always the path, there, to concentrate on.. " -- Hamish Managua Gunn


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my song of choice for today



Eleven facts about 'The Christ The Redeemer Statue' read it here

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[photo of Cleopatra Borel from google dot com]

her tears of joy -
yes Cleo
it rained here too
© gillena cox 2016

Our girl made the finals, in the shot put. finishing seventh out of 12 finalists with a best heave of 18.37 metres during the final of the Women’s Shot Put event at the XXXI Olympic Games on Friday night at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Well Done Cleo!!!

Sunday Smiles



Revisit
Golden August 2012
Sunday Savvy #97
Sunday Lime 1

Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #97 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #315


She says this means everything to her; Yeah Cleo!!! WATCH and ENJOY

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Olympics viewing
the crunch of cucumbers boost
hydration levels
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
amazement 2012
Sunday Savvy #96
Sunday Lime 1

Bring home the gold; thats what were are thinking here in Trinidad Tobago. A happy Olympics 2016 to all
Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #96 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below





Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #314


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - winners

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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

Amazement

Maya Angelou said "...The Olympics Committee ask me to write a poem for the 2008 Olympics and I offer it again for the 2012 Olympians. I commend you all, Americans and winners across the globe for what you do is win the human spirit and therefore we are all winners..."

Amazement Awaits By Maya Angelou

Sheer amazement awaits
Amazement luxuriant in promise
Abundant in wonder
Our beautiful children arrive at this Universal stadium
They have bathed in the waters of the world
And carry the soft silt of the Amazon, the Nile,
The Danube, the Rhine, the Yangtze and the Mississippi
In the palms of their right hands.
A wild tiger nestles in each armpit
And a meadowlark perches on each shoulder.
We, the world audience, stand, arms akimbo,
Longing for the passion of the animal
And the melody of the lark
The tigers passion attend the opening bells,
The birds sing of the amazement which awaits.
The miracle of joy that comes out of the gathering of our best, bringing their best,
Displaying the splendor of their bodies and the radiance of their agile minds to the cosmos.
Encouragement to those other youth caught in the maws of poverty,
Crippled by the terror of ignorance.
They say Brothers and Sisters, Yes, try. Then try harder.
Lunge forward, press eagerly for release.
The amazement which awaits is for you.
We are here at the portal of the world we had wished for
At the lintel of the world we most need.
We are here roaring and singing.
We prove that we can not only make peace, we can bring it with us.
With respect for the world and its people,
We can compete passionately without hatred.
With respect for the world and its people,
We can take pride in the achievement of strangers.
With respect for the world and its people,
We can share openly in the success of friends.
Here then is the Amazement
Against the odds of impending war
In the mouth of bloody greed
Human grace and human spirit can still conquer.
Ah … We discover, we ourselves
Are the Amazement which awaits
We are ourselves Amazement.

hope you enjoyed 'Amazement Awaits' By Maya Angelou

Golden August

golden August -
anniversary brew spice
of Keshorn Walcott
--gillena cox


Well Done T&T
We are proud of our entire Olympics Team

Olympic Run

Richard Thompson, Trinidad and Tobago Silver Medalist; 2008 Bejing Olympics.