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image from google dot com


breezy evening
our young love
succumbs to
the scent of bay leaf trees
lingering in our first kiss

lost in their raptour
bay leaf trees; the scent of
our first kiss
© gillena cox 2015



Revisit
2010 remembering
2011 remembering
213 remembering



blog hopping today at
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #55 Jen (Blog It Or Lose It)


warming in my palm –
a summer plum
plucked by the storm
© Jen (a.k.a. Paloma)


you cannot hide
the want in your eyes –
easily deciphered –
released touch by touch
my mystery is much deeper
© Huilota

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a voice explains -
rapt attention of children
to buds of lotus
learning along the trek
around the still murky pond


a stillness ensues
the roll of lotus leaves
in a murky pond
© gillena cox 2015

Revisit
Lotus 2013
Lotus 2012
Lotus 2011



AND

Carpe Diem #789 Lotus flowers


spirit grows -
from the bottom of the pond
into the light
the Lotus reaches from the deep -
enlightenment
© Chèvrefeuille

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viewing lotus -
with quiet grace the ducks
skim the water
© gillena cox

Revisit
cover
La Vega
round leaves


I am blog hopping today at Carpe Diem Special #141, Kala Ramesh's "lotus viewing"

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nightfall/ resounding alleluias/ in the season of Easter
--gillena cox


I am blog hopping today at
PP F: Week 7, Year 4


6WS

fund raising weekend Resurrection In Song
--gillena cox


Carpe DiemDistillation #7, Tagore's ''Lotus''

offering beauty
tall slender lotus stemming
from a murky pond
--gillena cox

revisit one of a 2012 lotus haiku HERE

Series Picture Post Cards 28

round leaves
listening for Basho's frog
in the pond
--gillena cox, 2009

revisit Wild Fowl Trust.3

Renku Saturday 2

Inspiration for this haiku and image


La Vega Estate -
a queue to the toilets
near lotus blooming
-gillena cox


from

blooming lotuses
where sewer water
pours
-Issa, 1822

Cover Of Evening

Cover of Evening, a collaboration; between Cindy Tebo,USA (photo ); and Gillena Cox,TT (verse ); done in 2009; now dedicated, to the reconstruction and regeneration of The New Haiti

Facts about the Lotus
Lotuses are found in white and pink colors in general and they grow in shallow and murky waters. The plant has its roots firmly in the mud and sends out long stems to which their leaves are attached. The leaves are sometimes, and Lotus flowers always, raised above the water surface. The beautiful and fragrant Lotus flower opens in the morning and petals fall in the afternoon. A bud symbolizes potential. The well known Buddhist mantra, "Om mane padme," refers to the jewel in the lotus, enlightenment. The Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) symbolizes purity, beauty, majesty, grace, fertility, wealth, richness, knowledge and serenity.

for more about the Lotus CLICK