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My mother was cremated last Sunday. July 11th 2021. I did not attend in person, I used the option of a live youtube stream. My brother read my poem Coconut Fudge in the eulogy. (This is my final farewell posting) THANKS FOR YOUR CONDOLENCES.

YOU CAN READ 'Coconut Fudge'  HERE

behind her mountains -

sun-kissed reverie sketches

the journey ahead

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

sumie Sunday 34

Sunday Standard 34

Sunday Lime 34

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 Sunday XXXIII of the series '100 ways to haiku a mask '

Tell me about your Sunday email me OR post a COMMENT 

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Our (Trinidad and Tobago) borders are now opened

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 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. [Psalm 124:8]

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

SUNDAY SMILES

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Writers’ Pantry #79: The Latest on the Shortest

AND

Sunday Muse #169

ENJOY THE MUSIC: Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face '69

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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1896) [image courtesy Poets United]


silently truth speaks -
the face of my mother fills
my mirrored gaze
© gillena cox 2018



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER MRS MARY MITCHELL SHE IS 88 TODAY [growing up people always said to me you look like your mother except for your father's brown eyes; and i would say to myself, i hope i grow into my own face]




Blog Hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Truth
Susan is prompting today


Revisit
hibiscus hedges
coconut sweetbread
a photo of my mother


Enjoy The Music

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[Temple in the sea Waterloo, Trinidad]

autumn evening
like whispered prayers
leaves float away

a temple sits in the sea
pray flags ripple discordant hymns


[coconut sweetbread image from google dot com]

coconut sweetbread -
the way a mother mixes
her day to day tasks


[Dawn In The Valley - Valerie Ganz: painting from google dot com]

ura wo mise omote wo misete chiru momiji

now it reveals its hidden side
and now the other thus it falls,
an autumn leaf

from dawn sky tints of orange
preface to evening sunset



Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #9 leaves float away (Dolores Fegan)

autumn evening
like whispered prayers
leaves float away
© Dolores

a temple sits in the sea
pray flags ripple discordant hymns
© gillena cox 2017

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Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #10 an autumn leaf (Ryokan Taigu)

ura wo mise omote wo misete chiru momiji

now it reveals its hidden side
and now the other thus it falls,
an autumn leaf
© Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831)

from dawn sky tints of orange
preface to evening sunset
© gillena cox


Carpe Diem
Namasté, The Spiritual Way #9 Mother's Day

coconut sweetbread -
the way a mother mixes
her day to day tasks
© gillena cox 2017

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Don't leave before you see again
15 May 2016

15 May 2015

15 May 2013

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[my mother in her younger phase]

Happy Birthday to my mother [Mrs Mary Mitchell] who is 86 today; i remember as a child growing up that her favourite flower was Carnation. I don't think it is her favourite flower now though. [note to self. i must ask her]

whorls and whorls -
the pinking shears edges of
Carnation furls
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
my mothers 81st birthday





Today is also a public holiday as Trinidad and Tobago celebrates Indian Arrival Day; HAPPY HOLIDAY T&T









Linking: now that [its Wednesday] to Susan's prompt
Midweek Motif ~ Parents, Guardians, Significant Adults in the Lives of Children

Hibiscus Hedges

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

hedge
laden with hibiscus -
a note to the teacher says
why i'm late
--gillena cox

Happy Birthday to my mother, eighty one years old today




Happy holiday Trinidad and Tobago

Indian Arrival Day, celebrated on 30th May, commemorates the arrival of the first Indian Indentured labourers from India to Trinidad, in May1845, on the ship Fatel Razack. read more here