Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts

Thursday, January 18, 2024

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 digitalart ©gillenacox composed@picsart

HAPPY 18th  ANNIVERSARY TO
 Lunch Break Blog
started on January 18th 2006

strike a match under
a saucepan on the stovetop -
sautee onions
--gillena cox 2024


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

🎨😋 🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date:Matches 


YUMMY 

pigeon peas, macaroni pie, baked chicken



REVISIT

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20220118
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ENJOY THE MUSIC
It;s Carnival Season here in T&T

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

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Today i am celebrating THE SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY of my blog Lunch Break. 
Please join in the celebration. 
Leave your words of wishes and haiku at comments
 
 
two doves on the wall
belonging all to themselves -
this morning i view
© gillena cox 2023




BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH



REVISIT

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

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Dear haiku friends
Welcome to the 16th Anniversary celebration  of blog Lunch Break
You may haiku your greetings at comments

much love
gillena

another bunch 
 of yellow ixoras where
bees will breakfast
© gillena cox 2022


BEFORE YOU LEAVE REVISIT
The first post at Lunch Break
The first anniversary celebration at Lunch Break
Ten years at Lunch Break





THANKS FOR DROPPING BY

dream weaver
each step, a step
to greatness
--Willie Bongcaron 

your thoughts voice
peers through such written echoes
yesterday is now
--Magyar

words flow
pen to paper
heart to heart
--Adelaide

off-season
seagulls in line
at the clam shack
--Paul Mena

mushroom circles turn
spun 'round in this dark forest...
fairies dance tonight
-- Pat Geyer

Monday, January 18, 2021

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Another Lunch Break Anniversary Bash.
January 18th 2006 saw the first posting of Lunch Break a haiku and photo which was recently featured in 2020 HERE 

 
Fifteenth Anniversary today - a trip down memory lane with friends of Lunch Break

bird songs
including the rooster's crow
again dawn
--gillena cox 2006


during lunch break
a stitchaiga is born
January sunshine
--Bette Norcross Wappner  2007


Autumn night
her full face visits again
in a purple glow
--Angelika Kolompar 2008


The year of ox-
I wonder where
the muerte is
--Kuniharu Shimizu 2009
#muerte is the bullfighter's red cape


frenzied whistlers
kiskadees in the morning
silent sun rising
--gillena cox 2010 (posted 20th January 2010)


morning chill
awakened by the tremors
of a shivering earth
--Devika Jyothi 2011

school gate opens -
a snowball's trace
looks like a heart
--Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu 2012


heaven –
the journey
is the destination
--Bill Kenney 2013


Seven years
of magical renditions;
words forever
--Ramesh Sood 2014


twittering birds sing
of morning light, they banish
into yesterdays
the first crowing of roosters
those of a previous dawn
-- gillena cox 2015


lunch break—
inside the shell
a smooth pearl
--Stella Pierides, 2016


congratulations
tucked in my poem
a bouquet of flowers
--Madhuri Pillai 2017


her expectations
home for the carnival
homemade sorrel
-- gillena cox 2018


yellow Ixoras -
splurge of little blossoms
a splendid result
-- gillena cox 2019


half green half red
between Summer and Fall
sumac leaves
-- Marta Majorka Chociłowska 2020

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

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Blog Hopping today with

SOMETHING BLUE

❧✿❧AND❧✿❧


Poets and Storytellers United
Weekly Scribblings #32: I Am Explaining A Few Things
Prompted by Sanaa: Challenge today is to write inspired by the title of Neruda's poem Feel free to address the current world situation, or perhaps delve into a memory of your own. Challenge the reader, surprise us with humor and wit, go solemn and dark or perhaps tender and romantic. The possibilities are endless!


❧✿❧


this gift of morning
let me explain a few things -
poems today's joy

alone with bird songs
how could this be you may ask -
that's the way it is

you were meant to be -
always in my heart even
though we are apart

some love stories stretch
the imagination to -
a span of azure

so today i cheer-
happy anniversary
sans regret to me

come morning sunlight -
this used to be our home
now its called my home
© gillena cox 2020


REVISIT
12 August 2018
12 August 2017
12 August 2016

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An August 12th signpost: Married to Anthony Cox for 49 years today [BUT] living alone

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SONG CHOICE FOR TODAY




Saturday, January 18, 2020

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moon crescent fading
golden clouds paint the morning
right for weekend fetes

© gillena cox 2020


WELCOME TO THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF LUNCH BREAK BLOGGING
Happy to have meet so many talented writers now friends. Come celebrate with me today.

shadows deepen
a day of late wind
and dancing
© Pris Campbell

half green half red
between Summer and Fall
sumac leaves
© Marta Majorka ChociÅ‚owska

cold crow...
wind chases
me home
© Pat Geyer

eye to eye
conversing with marigolds
children
© Rick Dadario

sunday symphony
grand snowflakes glide across
the veranda
© Bette Norcross Wappner 

poker game
playing for silver
and for laughs
© Michael Baribeau



REVISIT
11th anniversary 2017
13th anniversary 2019
first blog post 2006


ENJOY THE MUSIC



ITS CARNIVAL SEASON HERE IN T&T
CARNIVAL PAST photos © gillena cox

Monday, January 18, 2016

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bird songs
including the rooster's crow
again dawn

© gillena cox 2006

I started this blog, ten years ago posting the image above and haiku, I received four comments. My, how time flies when one is having fun


Today Lunch Break is ten years old, Party Hats On: Welcome to the online party



I harbor
jubilation
in your honor


Admit I took a chance
surrounding preparation
peppy circumstance.


I come bearing gifts
to cherish and hold
long stemmed roses
--Sanaa Rizvi, Saudi Arabia


winter night
transforms to daybreak
counting dreams
--Vibeke Laier, Denmark


cheers my friend...
we clink ten times
to celebrate

in the once
that still is...
many years
happy, Happy Anniversary!
--Pat Geyer, USA


ten years
a toast in front of
the fireplace

lunch break—
inside the shell
a smooth pearl
--Stella Pierides, Germany



--Mike Keville, UK



so special...
daffodils and crystals lead
to many more
--Deborah White, USA


luminous stars
each
on its own
--Eva Limbach, Germany



hear the cork
its bubbles tell of time
a toast

Cheers, Gillena_!
_m



Raising hopes, they walk
on the multicolored moon
to share the same dream.
--Marieta Maglas, Romania


10th birthday
she no longer asks
for pink frosting
--Diane Mayr, USA

Revisit Anniversary Postings
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015


Thank you for your haiku gifts and well wishes
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

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Chaconia image from google dot com


fifty balloons
is now not enough; colours
still in creating

three blind mice
a nursery rhyme ago sung -
pride of new chants

years of growing -
the strains of innocence in
Chaconia bracts
© gillena cox



Revisit
Independence 2012
Independence 2014
Sunday Lime 1



Tomorrow Trinidad and Tobago celebrates fifty three years of Independence...Sunday Smiles


SmileyCentral.com

Welcome to Sunday Lime #48 How is your Sunday going? To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





Blog hopping today at

Poetry Pantry 267


...AND...

Recuerda Mi Corazon Chaconia

Sunday, January 25, 2015

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celebration time
to dance as light as balloons -
haiku instincts splurge

© gillena cox


Sunday 18th was the ninth anniversary of this blog; its one week after, and today, is the celebration party here

Revisit
eight anniversary
first anniversary
Sunday Lime 1

Sunday Smiles

SmileyCentral.com

How is your Sunday going? Today is #22 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below




I am blog hopping today at
Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - celebration


...

Poetry Pantry 236


...

Carpe-Diem "Time Glass" #18,

Saturday, January 18, 2014

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'Cheers! Its Lunch Break's Eighth Anniversary'

Sorrel Drinks Jigsaw PuzzleSorrel Drinks Jigsaw Puzzle
click above to play the puzzle

the year
still young; sorrel
in the fridge

--gillena cox
(i used, this image and haiku for my 2014 New Year card swap)

REVISIT CELEBRATIONS
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
AND First Post 2006


Its also the first Renku Saturday for 2014; Renku Saturday #50 revisit Renku Saturday #49


Please join me in celebrating
EMAIL me, COMMENT, or enter your LINK at the blog hop below.






'Cheers! Its Lunch Break's Seventh Anniversary'
Linking today to 6WS



Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Yellow Allamanda Hedge



Lunch Break was started on January 18th 2006; today is the the sixth anniversary of this blog; i invite you to celebrate with me; e-mail me or comment a sharing; i'll edit during today and include;revisit last year's celebration Have an especially nice day

yellow allamanda hedge -
the sun
warming our faces

--gillena cox 2012


sixth years old -
letters merge into words
for the first time

school gate opens -
a snowball's trace
looks like a heart

--Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu


words images celebrate
sixth anniversary
joy in sun on yellow flowers

garden grows as Lunch Break
sends blessings to others
special lady strong faith

--Michelle


the sixth anniversary...
Trinidad and Tobago
in my heart

--Karol Rosiak


the luxury
Throat darker petals
yellow Allamanda

yellow Allamanda
Before dawn and after dusk
birds sing

--Tatjana Debeljacki


knocking
at a friend's door
looking forward
again
Ralf Bröker


Poems remain copyright of the individual writers, Thanks for your kind regards; much love
gillena


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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sunday Savvy 5


nine eleven
only love forges futures -
Sunday savvy
-gillena cox


revisit Sunday Savvy 4

Why not share a little Sunday someting with me comment or email me; This is Sunday 5 of the series 'Sunday Savvy'





--from Gheorghe Postelnicu, Romania;

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Lunch Break - 5th Anniversary


fifth anniversary
at Lunch Break
we share a five star

*¤*

morning chill
awakened by the tremors
of a shivering earth
--Devika Jyothi



Welcome to the fifth anniversary celebration of Lunch Break: a haiku/haiga dialogue...Started 18th January 2006; to revisit the 4th Anniversary Celebration click here...

"the poet of the haiku vanishes as to direct our attention toward what is beyond the ego...."
essay by Carlos Fleitas
'Haiku: lightning on a clear sky'




winter clouds -
leafless magnolias
trembling in the wind

*¤*

ice needles -
a warmed up fly
pops in the window
--Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu



snow falling
across the parking lot
headlights flip on
--William KENNEY



lunch break -
I read
"Lunch Break"
--Andrzej Dembonczyk




--STOPS



child holding
a new kite in his hands --
warm seabreeze
--Juhani Tikkanen



somewhere between Christmas
and Valentine's Day-
happy birthday lunch break!
--Cara



religious calendar
of the world three hierarchs
and the candlelight
Tatjana Debeljacki



already five years
of dedicated duty...
bon anniversaire
--Keith A. SIMMONDS



I certainly have enjoyed LunchBreak. Gillena's writing and artistic talents make it a special event each time. Congratulations Gillena. Best wishes
--Que



5th anversary / omedetou / keep going haiku way.
--Kokko




Shanna




--Diane
photo is courtesy the Library of Congress



Thanks to:-Andrzej Dembonczyk,PO; Cara Holman, US; Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, RO; Devika Jyothi, IN; Diane Mayr, US; Gheorghe Postelnicu,RO; Juhani Tikkanen, FI; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Nakamura Sakuon, JP; Quentin Clingerman, US; Shanna Baldwin-Moore,(Hawaii)US; Tatjana Debeljacki,SB; William Kenney, US;



Poems remain copyright of the individual writers, and should not be used without their permission

SmileyCentral.com

MUCH LOVE
gillena