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a chance to gossip

when friends meet in fairy land -

the birds breeze and frog

© gillena cox 2023 

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS

REVISIT
20220906
20200906
20180906

INVITATIONS TO MY LINKY

Every Friday ART FOR FUN FRIDAY
Every Sunday  SUNDAY SMILES 
Every Monday MONDAY WRITES

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Kiskadee in a digital frame

Kiskadee colour pencil drawing

kiskadee  -

she sings to me at  dawn then

 rests  for a while

© gillena cox 2021

 2021 sticker  - i am creating a lot of these this January

Sorrel from my archives to toast today at our art date

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Thursday Art Date

Birds and the sky

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REVISIT
14 January 2020
14 January 2018
14 January 2017

ENJOY THE MUSIC

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The background photo in this collage was first posted HERE

water hyacinths -
the caimans slumber after
eating their weight's worth
© gillena cox

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Three Muses: Birds

AND

Rains Art Date: Antique

Its Day 58 of 100 Day of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 Radio Station

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Tricia Lee Kelshall - Season of Love | 2016 Christmas Music Release (Official Audio)

a wire basket used here as a planter, older than i am, made by my grandfather

First posted HERE

REVISIT

19 November 2017

19 November 2014

19 November 2013

This angel i bought from a Christmas shop, while on vacation in New York. I had my name and the date penned to her, right  there in the shop

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[ image credit]

those birds again crap!
messing up the floor and wall
of my gallery
© gillena cox 2020


Blog hopping today with
Poets and Storytellers United
Weekly Scribblings #4 New Tricks
Prompted by Rommy ....for this prompt, I’d like you to consider that phrase (“you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”) and express any thoughts you had on it in either poetry or prose form.



Season of Carnival here in T&T
ENJOY THE MUSIC


CARNIVAL PAST - PHOTOS © gillena cox

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[a 3 by 4 inch sketch, ink and brush, done on a white drawing pad page]
kiskadee
on my neighbour's rooftop -
beak slicing the air
© gillena cox 2019


Here in T&T it's Carnival Time, Season of Bacchanal.

A happy Season of Carnival to T&T.

Sunday Smiles

[Smiley from google]


ENJOY THE MUSIC


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #55 of the series SUMI-E SUNDAYS. Tell me about your Sunday
email me
post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



REVISIT
Sunday Standard 55
Sunday Lime 55
19 January 2018


BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Recuerda Mi Corazon
a weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love

AND


Poets and Storytellers United
Writers' Pantry: #3: Be Warm


AND


Carpe Diem
Weekend Meditation #112 Transformation ... sketching from life (Shiki's Shasei technique)
Shiki hated associations, contrasts, comparisons, wordplays, puns, and riddles - all the things we are cherishing here! He favored the quiet simplicity of just stating what he saw without anything else happening in the haiku. He found the greatest beauty in the common sight, simply reported exactly as it was seen, and ninety-nine percent of his haiku written in his style.

PROMPT:This weekend I love to challenge you to re-create a haiku (in Shasei style) by Shiki into a Tanka. Here is the haiku to work with:

kaboocha yori nasu muzukashiki shasei kana
Sketching from life —
eggplants are harder to do
than pumpkins
© Masaoka Shiki (Tr. Burton Watson)

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pumpkins and baigan
so colourful the market stalls
my one basket serves
to take all my purchases
carefully back to my house
© gillena cox 2020

In Trinidad and Tobago we do say eggplant, but we also call them BAIGAN


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CARNIVAL PAST photos © gillena cox



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[this Pink Periwinkle from my garden]

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climate change
making hot days hotter
oh to hear
the song of a skylark
to add joy to my day
© gillena cox 2019


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem #1648 skylark (hibari),

Chèvrefeuille's prompt is classical kigo - skylark (hibari) I do not know of this bird here in Trinidad and Tobago, so i did some research and came upon a poem To a Skylark by Shelley which is the inspiration to my response to the prompt. I couldnt fit my thought into a haiku so i wrote a tanka.

The skylark, more particularly its song, symbolizes ultimate joy. The speaker, Shelley in this case, asks the skylark to teach him this joy in order that he might give his poetry the same blithe quality of the skylark's song.

Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know,

Such harmonious madness

From my lips would flow



REVIST
16 April 2017
16 April 2015
16 April 2013


ENJOY THE MUSIC

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the name of Jesus -
excited are garden birds
rosary devotion
© gillena cox 2018


SEASON OF EASTER; SUNDAY SMILES

[today's smile image from Pinterest]



Blog hopping today with

Poetry Pantry 400

AND


Haiku My Heart
excited birds


ENJOY THE MUSIC



Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 81
Sunday Lime 81
22 April 2017


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #81 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below

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[ a digital - 2 Birds haiga]




[digital collage - Hearts attack]



[original internet image uses for Hearts Attack]



ENJOY THE MUSIC


Blog hopping today with

Week 3 Year 8

AND


HEARTS


REVISIT
23 March 2017
23 March 2016
23 March 2015

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[kiskadee haiga]


she frolics
through the aged mango tree -
flashes of yellow
© gillena cox 2018


[Kiskadee digital composition]



[Listening to the kiskadee photo inspiration]



[photo after PicsArt magic]



[Crop Listening to the kiskadee watercolour]



[Listening to the kiskadee watercolour art on the drawing board]



[Happy 7th PPF]



Blog hopping with

7th Birthday PPF

AND


ANIMAL



ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
9 March 2011
9 March 2010
9 March 2009

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sway of windblown boughs -
unruffled a grackle views
morning blossoming
© gillena cox 2017



Pacing Christmas; we are just a few steps away folks

Sunday Smiles




Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #62 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below







Blog hopping today at

Poetry Pantry # 380


AND


MM: Nov 26 2017

AND


Kristjaan, over at Carpe Diem Weekend - Meditation #8 Free Styling says - I will give you only a few themes to work with and you may choose your own Japanese poetry form that's why I titled it "free styling". Here are the themes you can choose from:
first snow; autumn leaves; sunrays;
new day rising; Santoka Taneda;
haibun; troiku



Enjoy The Music



Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 62
Sunday Lime 62
26 November 2017