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behind my mask

 appreciation breathes in

a colour

not seen

in my garden

the warm of sunlight

caressing my face

as i walk

in this new normal phase

lockdown now a memory

at the street vendor

things we took for granted

buying fruit

celebrating a new day with

huge helpings of hope stirred in

© gillena cox 2020

Its Day 57 of 100 Days of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 Radio Station

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Parang Slide - Lujoe and The Gifted

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Poets and Storytellers United 

Weekly Scribblings #46: Let's Celebrate!

REVISIT
18 Nov 2018
18 Nov 2013
18 Nov 2012

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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 Chociłowska

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

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(✿◠‿◠) WELCOME TO MY 2017 BIRTHDAY PARTY (◠‿◠✿)

Its February 11th and YES its my birthday. Thanks for ALL the wishes, greetings, and gifts of poetry; ONLY SOME of which is posted here


Happy birthday mother Gill.
May your happiness stand tall like the hill
Much soothing like the early lark’s thrill
And the morning sunrays on your window overspill
With your dreams pouring in peaceful and still
As designed by the father in his Will
With every pathways cleared up of pills and chills
And your life lived with nothing on blank page to fill…
From ~ Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ghana‎



From ~ Ban'ya Natsuishi‎ Japan‎



From ~ Barbara Kaufman USA



From ~ Bekkie Sanchez, USA‎



From ~ Donna Smith‎‎


From ~ Famida Vilasini Basheer‎, India


Sumi-e by Kolyada Nickolay © 2015
...аs one of the subjects of traditional Chinese painting containing the symbols
whith the wishes of various goods such as happiness, health, success, etc.
In this case, it is metaphorical wish of long life

From ~ Francis Tugayé‎, France



From ~ google dot com



From ~ Kris Kondo, Japan



From ~ Laura Hegefield, USA‎



From ~ Magdalena Dale Romania



From ~ ‎Maria Tirenescu, Romania‎



From ~ Olga Neagu, Romania


[My dear birds
waiting with fly
haiku wings]
happy birthday to you

From ~ ‎Otteri Selvakumar‎ India


From ~ Sanaa Rizvi‎, Malaysia



From ~ Shanna Baldwin, Hawaii‎



From ~ Susan Delphine Delaney‎, USA


Sretan rođendan Gillena!!!
From ~ Tomislav Maretić, Crotia



From ~ Vibeke Laier‎ Denmark

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will be editing this post throughout the day




Revisit
My Birthday 2016 Party

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this was the mood out on the Western Main Road St James, Trinidad 2006, after our team 'Soca Warriors' qualified to go to Germay

Today i'm thinking 'Soca Warriors', 'settlement', and 'YEAH!!!'

Mostly everyone, if not everyone, is looking at World Cup 2014 this July. Which makes for an eclectic mix of tears, hugs, waves, colours, hurts and joys. Here in T&T there's joy in the camp of our Soca Warriors, who are in the news, not as players, but as receivers. Happily so; the long outstanding monetary payment owed to them, has been settled.
And now looking forward, Yeah!!! Germany/Argentina today; may the best played team win.

Sunday savvy -
the coolness of dawn, i wait
first kiskadee's call



celebrating
the lightness of confetti
jumping for joy
--gillena cox





Revisit
return
celebrate
Affirmation 2


Sunday Smiles


What's your 'something Sunday' Today is #111 in the series Sunday Savvy: revisit Sunday Savvy #110 To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and, since Sunday Savvy is now a meme, you can also enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





I am also blog hopping today at

Inspired by the prompt party

Poetry Pantry #209


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1004

Today's is my 1004 post; i'm doing 3 things in celebration, which i had planned on doing for the 1000th post

1. i'm changing my profile picture

2. i'm numbering instead of titling posts

3. and i'm inviting sharings in celebration of my 1000th posting

email me or post a COMMENT


much love
gillena


After thousand blogs
hieroglyphically
autumn came again
-- Dimitar Anakiev


toasting a thousand
and one lunchbreaks --
here’s to more!
--Stella Pierides


celebration on high
new this september
one more post
--Pat Geyer


After a thousand
art show
each day is new
--Lorraine


let one thousand
be the first milestone
to the next thousand
--Vinay Ravindranath


new steps
imagine more tomorrows
past skills
-- _m


lunchbreak
another butterfly twirls
around the rose
--Christine L Villa , US


one thousand gifts--
can we put a number
on our heart's treasures?
-- Vivian , US


spring sun
the little boy asks me
what a thousand is
--Bouwe


one thousand posts
on her weblog . . .
where does the time go
-- Bill


mingled voices
a thousand crickets
stir the breeze
-- Cara Holman


grandma shows me
my baby bonnet
in her quilt
--Michael Baribeau