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Background art first posted HERE

Faith is not without worry or care,

But Faith is Fear that has said a prayer.

~Thelma Ireland, "Faith," 1943   Source Quote Garden

not quite dark yet

 and the stars shining

above the withered fields

--Yosa Buson    Source

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pandemic days -

no music from down the street

humans in lockdown

© gillena cox 2021

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Music/Musical

REVISIT

20 July 2018

20 July 2013

20 June 2011

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Making New Art From Old Art 20210521

Old art - first posted here... here and here

absence of bird songs -

the wind ruffles in with her

peerless choruses

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT

21 May 2020 

21 May 2019 

my post to PPF Week 12 Year 8

BON APPETIT -

gillena cox photos

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Paint Part Friday

Week 10 Year 11

recuerda mi corazon

a weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love

❧✿❧ ENJOY THE ART  VIDEO: 'Santana & Seal ~ You Are My Kind'

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[photo haiku]

caricature leaf
dresses up to look just like
her leaf sisters
© gillena cox 2019



[Quote: in this mosaic i used photos from last year and this year because i wanted to crop for the Moo]




[moo Nectar: a crop of the above mosaic with filters and graphic clip art added]



[Colour pencil - hibiscus]



Blog hopping today with

Paint Part Friday



Three Muses Challenge ~ Quote



Moo Mania 205 Use Your Scraps



Recuerda Mi Corazon
a weekly unfurling of tiny jubilant love

AND

Rain's Garden: Thursday Art Date, Grays and Browns



REVISIT
29th November 2015
29th November 2013
29th November 2012

[Yesterday was my daughters's birthday, we ate out, had a late lunch at a restuarant of her choice]

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[haiga - Christmas Angel 1; ink pencils and a wet brush applied]

turning her back
on November days -
she looks to a star
© gillena cox 2018



[QUOTE - digital collage]




blog hopping today with

Week 39, Year 8


AND


ILLUSTRATE A QUOTE


ENJOY THE MUSIC



REVISIT
30 November 2015
30 November 2014
30 November 2013


[Wednesday was my daughter's 47th birthday. I treated her to breakfast at Peche's. We ordered a dessert to finish up. They put HER birthday greeting on MY dessert order. NO PROBLEM: i ate MY dessert and she ate up HER chocolate greeting]






ORDER FOR CHRISTMAS HERE

Beach Trail

the sands too yield
shifting with the surf's ebbing
and flowing
choreography of breath
a performance nonpareil
--gillena cox

Painting is silent poetry -- Plutarch

I saw this poster at Facebook, liked it and used it as my desktop photo for a while; the authorship remain unknown to me and too any copyright restrictions, but i liked it so much, i've decided to share it here at Lunch Break; i have no claim whatsoever to the image or the text it carries





“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi



“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-- Saint Augustine (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430.




roosters crowing in
a new day
in another season
of Lent
-- gillena cox

In Bird Songs

Today is my son's birthday; he got his birthday gift early since in January from me, and today, i called to wish him Happy Birthday; I used a tiny crop from one of his art pieces for the background of today's haiga.

morning sun -
the colours of today
in bird songs
--gillena cox



God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well
--Voltaire


Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
-- Kahlil Gibran click here to read the whole poem


click here to revisit my son's birthday 2011

What If

i read the quote of the day at Quote Garden today "Grief is itself a medicine--William Cowper" and said to myself "what if?......"

Spliced In Day 18 and Nelson Mandela Day

Today's post has been edited to include a quote of Nelson Mandela as he celebrates today his 93rd birthday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nelson Mandela

Read Take Mandela at his word Read also S.Africa cheers Mandela’s 93rd birthday




During the month of July There will be featured here at Lunch Break haiku related essays; original copyright remains with the websites and to their respective writers.





Spliced In - Day 18

...One of the first three civilization on earth, China, during a period of colonization, conquered the group Islands that’s today called Japan. The Chinese introduced writing, literature (including poetry), Buddhism, Taoism, and the teachings of Confucius to Japan. As years passed by, and after many wars, Japan became a unified nation ruled by a succession of Emperors thought by the Japanese to be gods. Early poetry in Japan were written in Chinese, and later in Japanese. Many of the great waka and Haiku poets including Basho and Fujiwara no Teika made references to Chinese poetry especially those from the Tang Dynasty. Some even copied lines and added lines of their own to them. Some excerpts from Tang Dynasty poetry that influenced Japanese poetic thought and aesthetics...


Read the essay The Chinese Influence on Japanese Short Form Poetry by Robert D. Wilson

Cloudshaping

i prayed myself out of a bad dream; woke up way before the dawn, exhausted; couldn't go back to sleep brewed some tea and turned on the TV with a pack of plaintain chips in one hand, and there was President Obama making the announcement (live) on CNN that the al Quaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was slain

clouds shaping
the morning sky
a dove alit on
the electric wire
--gillena cox


The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. -- Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) more here...

moving clouds
gusty winds
changing the shape
--Adelaide Shaw

the doves thoughts
unaware of their danger
imprinted minds
--Magyar

The Easter Parade 2011 #5

easter lily images from


hiding behind
a mass of cloud -
morning sun
--gillena cox


Biblical legend tells us that the lily flower came from Eve's tears when she and Adam were banished from the Garden of Eden.The lily is also the traditional flower of spring and is highly regarded as a joyful symbol of beauty, hope, and life.read more here...


Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises
was oftentimes filled with your tears.
--Khalil Gibran(1883 –1931)





The Easter Parade 2011 ends tomorrow; Poem copyright remains with the individual writers
much love
gillena

Hoarding Chocolates 13

internet image from
White chocolate contains cocoa butter, a product of the cocoa bean that is also used to produce chocolate. The cocoa butter, which does have a faint chocolate flavor is combined with milk, sugar and often other flavoring ingredients such as vanilla in order to create the creamy confection known as white chocolate

Sunday-
the type of day rife with
quotidian choices
--gillena cox


Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty [Lora Brody]





I prefer it bittersweet and hot. But sometimes it has to be white chocolate.

In the cellar
the old wine-grower
opens a can
--Ralf