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[Woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi courtesy Carpe Diem]


chio tidbits
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775)...women haiku writer when women were not yet regarded...Edo period...love of morning glories...later in life became a nun.


a morning glory -
so her bucket entangled
she borrows water
gillena cox 2018



FIRST SUNDAY IN THE SEASON OF LENT

Sunday Smiles



Enjoy The Music




Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
Weekend-Meditation #20 Revise That Haiku

haiku prompt
morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask for water
© Chiyo-Ni


AND


Poet's United #391

AND


Recuerda Mi Corazon Morning Glory



Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 72
Sunday Lime 72
18 February 2012


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #72 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

1954

[This variety of morning glories in the photo, open in the morning and by noon they close up]

morning glories -
wind songs lure them to furling
for a short span
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit

they furl like cloud puffs ...
morning glory look-alikes
loving rainy days
20150820

in the shadow of
a wildflower...
my gaze
20130908

unscented and wild
a flower filing senses
with lavender thoughts
20090819



Blog hopping today at

Midweek Motif ~ Blooms (noun)
prompted by Susan

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[my video choice for today]

1016

Renku Saturday 28


at this time
morning glories fix the color
deep blue
Masaoka Shiki (1867 – 1902)


the plumbagos
even their stems
blue
--gillena cox,TT


blue moon
hydrangeas blushing
midnight pink
-- Alegria Imperial,BC


in blue dreamland
under her cotton sheets -
lazy morning
--Patrick Fetu,FR


Deep blue
I am
--Lorraine,CA


I want to steal the word “blue”
into every poem...
Blue is an attitude
--Colleen Redman,US
read the whole poem here


midnight blue . . .
staring at
a blank page
-- Bill,US


blue handblown glass
his hand shapes a corn flower
with no prompting
-- Adelaide,US



revisit Renku Saturday 27