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our empty street -

first Divali this Covid

no lights from Deyas

© gillena cox 2020

Today is #99 of the series SUMI-E SUNDAYS. 
Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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Show us lord, your faithful love, grant us your saving help

Psalm 85:7

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

SUNDAY SMILES

Its day 54 of 100 days of Christmas here in T&T at Sweet 100 FM Radio Station

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Daisy Voisin - Hooray Hoorah ( Parang )

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Poets and Storytellers United 

Writer's Pantry #46: Playing CatchUp

AND
Sunday Muse #134

a bit of hope left

in the Covid barrell so -

jump high but stay safe

© gillena cox 2020

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REVISIT 

Sunday Standard #99
Sunday Savvy #99
Sunday Lime #99

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pandemic days -
still we look forward to
lights of Divali
© gillena cox 2020


November charcoals - deyas 20201113

MUSEUM MODE

Its day fifty two of 100 days of Christmas here in T&T at FM Sweet 100 radio station

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Del Toro - Christmas by Lal (Unofficial Video)

REVISIT

Divali 2018

Divali 2008

Divali 2016

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

WEEK 37 YEAR 10

AND

A weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love

I took these photos while walking this morning☺

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[3 Deyas - newsprint cutout collage]



[DEYA CROP OF 3 DEYAS]




[haiga]

amongst lit deyas
shadows walk watching -
Divali night
© gillena cox 2018


[Monochrome]


Blog hopping today with

Week 36, Year 8


AND


Monochrome



ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
11 November 2016
11 November 2014
11 November 2013


[DIVALI NIGHT 2018 (November 6th 2018) in the street where i live]

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November night breeze -
playful enough
to out lit deyas
© gillena cox 2018

Happy Diwali 2018

Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
#1539 Autumn's Voice (aki no koe) (classical kigo)
the "prompt / theme" ...: Autumn's Voice (or aki no koe), it's a classical kigo for Autumn, section Heavens.

late night walk
the rustling of colored leaves
reveals secrets
© Chèvrefeuille



REVISIT
6 November 2016
6 November 2012
6 November 2011

1982

['Deya' - gouache paints on water colour paper 5 x 7 inches]

lights in rows
flicker of festivity -
gentle breeze
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
Sculptured Bamboo


the street where i live


Crackle



Note
October 29th 2016 Divali - Public Holiday in Trinidad and Tobago


blog hopping today at

Week 34 Year 6

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On the street where i live; bamboo structures set up for
the Divali Lights later


with twilight comes
a drama of deyas lit -
divali mystique
© gillena cox




Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Writing Techniques #18 Yugen


souvenir paintings
what kind of a brush first drew
the image of Buddha
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

translucent tea cup
hides a deep secret
ghost of tea

© Chèvrefeuille

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October ends fifty four days till Christmas

they have them in piles
up front at the grocery stores -
clay lamps called deyas
© gillena cox 2015


next up-coming festival here is Divali

I am blog hopping today at 6WS

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when bamboo stems bend
under a curtain of night...
tiny lamps of clay
--gillena cox


Revisit
sculpured bamboo
all are drawn
greetings


Happy Divali 2014
Photos: Divali preparations, this morning, on the street where i live

















i am blog hopping today at
Carpe Diem #588, Vladivostok (January 2014) reprise


Thursday's Challenge"HOME" (House, Apartment, Trailer Home,...)"


Poets United Midweek Motif ~ One Day in the Life of ...

Early dawn's curtain,
Drawn to reveal rain showers,
And a pertinent absence of birdsong
(read the rest here)

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Defining Haiku here at Lunch Break that's 30 days, November 1st - 30th of haiku features

The haiku in today's haiga(illustrated haiku)

a quiet street -
road blocks preface the buzz of
Divali night
--gillena cox


Today's note - hokku


Haiku, standing alone as we know it today, has evolved out of the process of renga - a writing game of linked micro verses where the opening verse the hokku set the pace in terms of season, mood, and tone. Its was Basho who first started writing the stand alone micro poetry which we have come to accept as the genre haiku. Needless to say the renga (in a variety of forms still exist)
CLICK to revisit sculptured bamboo 2008


HAPPY DIVALI 2012


I invite you to share some of your expertise on hokku


Today's tag

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Defining Haiku here at Lunch Break that's 30 days, November 1st - 30th of haiku features

The haiku in today's haiga(illustrated haiku)

Divali eve -
bent bamboo patterns
bare
--gillena cox

Today's note - clutter


a haiku very often is morphed out a series of jottings, scribbles and write overs. In this process one of the uppermost issues for the writer is abstracting,
cutting out the unnecessary to get to the bare one breath reading experience

for example.....

eve of Divali -
only the bent bamboo shapes
no lights

eve of Divali -
only the bent bamboo
no deyas

eve of Divali -
the bent bamboo structues
as yet bare

eve of Divali -
the bent bamboo structues
yet bare

eve of Divali -
the bent bamboo structues
still bare

eve of Divali -
the bent bamboo structues
as yet bare

eve of Divali -
the bent bamboo sculptures
yet bare

and finally.......

Divali eve -
bent bamboo patterns
bare


I invite you to share some of your expertise on clutter with me


Today's tag