Sunday, May 14, 2017

2099



Mother's Day shoe sale
the pair of tan-brown wedges
tickles my fancy

© gillena cox 2017


A Happy Mothers Day, to all mothers


Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]

let us start picking --
don't drop herbs from your basket
or anything else!
© Den Sutejo (1633-1698)


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #36 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #353


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon - mother




Enjoy The Music




Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 36
Sunday Lime 36
Mother's day 2016



Down Memory Lane
[Lunch at Benihana - Trincity Mall, Trinidad; Mother's day 2008]





Shoe and Mother Quotes Shuffle
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers
~ Rudyard Kipling


Cinderella, I really do like. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl
~ Amy Adams


Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
~ Sophocles


I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes
~ Oprah Winfrey


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
~ William Makepeace Thackeray


You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes
~ Allan Sherman

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Friday, May 12, 2017

2098

[my impression - on newsprint, its incomplete]

ah to poem
a tree with words
unspoken

© gillena cox 2017

[my inspiration - photo of a Poui tree without blossoms May 2017]


[a pretty picture - just for fun - digital]


[got this as a Christmas gift 2016 from my daughter]


[that's all I have coloured so far]



Blog hopping today with

Week 10, Year 7

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Enjoy the music

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Don't Leave before you see again
12 May 2016
12 May 2015
12 May 2013

Thursday, May 11, 2017

2097

[William de Wilde painting from google dot com]


Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari

The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt. Ishizuchi
is great in scale

the reach for a pencil
to note a TV recipe


[photo of my grand daughter December 2016]


two sets of footprints
in freshly fallen snow
one pair from Kyoto

her first winter vacation
and snow ready for her throw


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #8 The flower of a pumpkin (Tomiyashu Fusei)
Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #7 two sets of footprints (Hamish Managua Gunn)


Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari

The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt. Ishizuchi
is great in scale

© Tomiyasu Fusei (1885 - 1979)

the reach for a pencil
to note a TV recipe
© gillena cox



two sets of footprints
in freshly fallen snow
one pair from Kyoto
© Hamish Managua Gunn

her first winter vacation
the snow ready for her throw
© gillena cox


Don't Leave Before You See Again
11 May 2011
11 May 2014


Tuesday, May 09, 2017

2096

[image courtesy google dot com]

first autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father's face.

thinking of folks back home
he stops to buy postcards

...

lightning one candle
with another candle
an evening in spring

sing alleluia cantors
Easter vigil has ended

...

[image courtesy Carpe Diem]

silent steps -
one more candle illuminates
the old chapel

she adjusts her head scarf
secured now with a hairpin




Blog hopping with
Carpe Diem - Tan Renga Challenge 2017


#6 first autumn morning (Murakami Kijo)
#5 silent steps


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first autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father's face.
© Murakami Kijo (1865-1938)

thinking of folks back home
he stops to buy post cards
©gillena cox

...

silent steps -
one more candle illuminates
the old chapel
© Ese

she adjusts her head scarf
secured now with a hairpin
© gillena cox

...

lightning one candle
with another candle
an evening in spring
© Buson (Tr. unknown)

sing alleluia cantors
Easter vigil has ended
© gillena cox


AND

The Tuesday Platform
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

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Don't Leave Before You See Again
9 May 2013
9 May 2011
9 May 2010

Monday, May 08, 2017

2095

CARS AND TREES

halt of wheels
filtered from the traffic stream -
spectacle of blooms

© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping with

Mosaic Monday # 39

Sunday, May 07, 2017

2094



promise of still life
to set of new ink pencils -
sunset colours sky

© gillena cox 2017


Still in the Liturgical Season of Easter. Day Seven of May, we are well into our second week. Hope May is good to you all


Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset
© Matsuo Bashō 1644-1694


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #35 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #352


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon - sunset


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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 35
Sunday Lime 35
7 May 2015

Friday, May 05, 2017

2093

[sketches using ink pencils on newsprint the bold mosaic lines were done using charcoal]


hot day -
sound of a pigeon
crapping

hankering for
the sound of raindrops -
blistering hot day

a glass of straws
iced tea
to cool a scorching day

© gillena cox 2017







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You know you are a good mother when, your daughter drives you to the Art Shop so you can buy yourself an easel ~ quote-able quotes from gillena cox



Blog hopping today with

Week 9, Year 7

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Enjoy the music


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Don't Leave before you see again
5 May 2016
5 May 2013
5 May 2012

Thursday, May 04, 2017

2092

[image courtesy Carpe Diem]


from the paulownia
without a breath of wind--
falling leaves

they prefer the paved lanes
people walking through the park


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge 2017 #4 from the Paulownia


from the paulownia
without a breath of wind--
falling leaves © Nozawa Boncho(1640-1714)

they prefer the paved lanes
people walking through the park © gillena cox


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Revisit
4 May 2014
4 May 2012

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

2091

background image from PINTEREST


aha! to and fro -
on gusts of wind blown spirals
the flight of words

© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
Tokubetsudesu special #1 "The Poet's Craft", an essay written by Kim Russell


Revisit
3 May 2015
3 May 2013
3 May 2012

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

2090

[background image from yahoo dot com]

the well digger
comes out into the floating world—
the heat!
cherrys loosen petals to
kiss the cheek of passersby


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #2 "the well digger"

the well digger
comes out into the floating world—
the heat!..............................Yokoi Yayū(1702-1783)
cherrys loosen petals to
kiss the cheek of passersby............gillena cox


Revisit
2 May 2011
2 May 2015

Monday, May 01, 2017

Sunday, April 30, 2017

2088

[banana tree shadows in my back yard]
>

April's hot dry days -
shadows of banana fronds
pledge a cooling breeze

© gillena cox 2017


Still in the Liturgal Season of Easter; This April in Trinidad and Tobago it is scorching hot.

Sunday Smiles

[smiley from Google dot com]


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #34 in the series The Sunday Standard when 5-7-5 haiku is featured. Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #351


AND

Recuerda Mi Corazon - hot days


AND


Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #2 "Use That Quote"
[There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon”. Matsuo Basho]

AND
SSS2
Shadow Shot Sunday 2
Windblown

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Enjoy The Music


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Before you leave see also
Sunday Savvy 34

Sunday Lime 34

30 April 2015

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

2087

[images courtesy Carpe Diem]


hands of aged mother -
a little sugar stirred in
to Ukogi tea

© gillena cox 2017

...



a good bargin price -
butterbar in his basket
he leaves the market

© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today with Carpe Diem


Carpe Diem #1198 (theme week 4) Acanthopanax (Ukogi) or Eleutherococcus Sieboldianus or Siberian Ginseng

Carpe Diem #1197 (theme week 3) Butterbur (Fuki no Tou)

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Don't Leave Before You See Also
26 April 2012

26 April 2013

26 April 2014

Monday, April 24, 2017

2086

[images courtesy Carpe Diem]


Spring Akebia
scrambling up a tree stump
scent of chocolate

© gillena cox 2017

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Andromeda blooms -
sweet whispers of elders
as bride and groom sit

© gillena cox 2017



Blog hopping today with Carpe Diem


Carpe Diem
#1195 (Theme Week 1) Andromeda flowers (or Ashibi/Asebi no hana)

Carpe Diem
#1196 (theme week 2) Akebia Blossom (Akebi no hana)

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Don't Leave Before You See Also
24 April 2016

24 April 2015

24 April 2014