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heat of today...
brightness of cumulus
--gillena cox
Linking today to Six Word Saturday AND Back linking to Sky Watch Friday




88 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

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Having read, and thoroughly enjoyed, 'Curry Casadoo' written by Kamalo Deen; i jumped at the invitation, to be present at a function to meet with it's author. So yesterday morning, it was, my delight, along with a small group of readers, friends, and staff of Nalis St James, to listen to readings from this marvellous novel and converse with him.

light streams
through closed windows...
retelling a tale
the authour's voice
--gillena cox

revisit Golden August
Linking today to Haiku Heights #300 AND Orange You Glad Its Friday



89 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

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salt-rimmed glasses...
a rattle in the shaker
of the TV chef
--gillena cox

revisit SALT AND GREEN GUAVAS
Linking today to Haiku Heights #299




90 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

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Happy Republic Day 2013 Trinidad and Tobago

day moon...
the pain of yesteryears
fades into wisdom
--gillena cox

Linking today to Haiku Heights #297




92 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

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image 'The Moth and the Lamp - Cesar Santos' courtesy The Mag 137

DAY MOON - 20130922
Sometimes Sundays are like that,
You become the moth, but more than that;
Your desire for the light is a hunger,
Unsatiable, maddening, engulfing;

Like swallowing whole the moon,
Just as it waxes its fullest; no!
Mere crecsents will not suffice,
Translucent of day sky, that moon.

*

Mary in her blue mantle...
sunlight through stained glass panels
--gillena cox


Linking today to Magpie Tales 137 AND Sunday Scribblings 388

Sunday Smiles



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Today is #80 in the series Sunday Savvy; revisit Sunday Savvy #79 share a Sunday inspiration with me email me post a COMMENT or post a URL

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Linking today to Six Word Saturday AND Back Linking to Paint Party Friday

...its comfortably warm this morning, not yet too hot, and sunny; i'm reading 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel (a book club recommended novel - which means other persons in my book club are also reading this) i've gotten through more than half, my favourite quote so far is from [page 6]
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."
...so i decide to sit outside this morning, (i'm an 'empty nester' so my time structuring is very much mine) Wow! my blessed sixties; my son and daughter, out on their own; my grand daughter will be one year old next month; i'm truly and humbly thankful for today, and yesterdays.

on the front steps ants crawling
--gillena cox

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quickening steps
before a downpour...
the stealth of clouds
--gillena cox

Linking today to Recuerda Mi Corazon - Haiku My Heart Friday AND Sky Watch Friday

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Linking today to Share The Joy Thursday AND Little Things Thursday

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left behind...
the wetness and
fallen ixoras


fallen ixoras
closed umbrellas


closed umbrellas..
azure skies
covering bird songs
--gillena cox 2013

Linking today to Ruby Tuesday Too AND TextureTuesday AND Tuesday Muse

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sunlight
stripping trees of silhouettes...
Ave Ave
--gillena cox

Linking today to Recuerda Mi Corazon - Mornings With Mary AND Hello Monday AND Monday Mellow Yellow

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How do you make the flowers bloom? The sweetness of an allamanda, hides in the yellow paint of her essence. I'll capture this. I know i can. I'll share the secrets of her being.
-- gillena cox


Linking today to Recuerda Mi Corazon - Post Cards From Paradise AND Five Sentence Fiction

Sunday Smiles



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someone said to me
that i looked very pretty...
Thank you i replied
-- gillena cox

Today is #79 in the series Sunday Savvy; revisit Sunday Savvy #78 share your Sunday something email me post a COMMENT or post a URL

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STONE PILLOWS

The dimensions in magic, intrigue the newbies at the
school. Used to being the center of attraction at fairs and bazaars, ringing a bell out there in the avenue to pay their way through an eek of mere sustenance, only to weary and move on. The stains of wind-carried offerings to remind them of their last stop. Ah but winds of change held the answer all along.

thunderstorm...
under some dreams
stone pillows
--gillena cox 2013


(last night's thunder showers proved to be the inspiration for my late response to this week's Wordle 125)

Linking today to Paint Party Friday AND Recuerda Mi Corazon - Haiku My Heart Friday AND back to SundayWhirl Wordle #125

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directing clouds
into angelic beings...
imaginings
--gillena cox


Linking today to Share The Joy Thursday AND i heart macro AND back-linking to Monday Mellow Yellow AND later in the week to Sky Watch Friday

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rainy morning...
under the paperweight
doodles
--gillena cox

Linking today to Mornings With Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon

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in the shadow of
a wildflower...
my gaze
--gillena cox 2013

Linking today to Shadow Shot Sunday 2 AND Recuerda Mi Corazon - Postcards From Paradise

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bougainvillea...
jeweled flight of
a hummingbird
--gillena cox


Linking today to Six Word Saturday AND Pink Saturday

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each chime
a reply to the wind...
the morning tuned
--gillena cox

Linking today to Orange You Glad Its FridayAND Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart Friday

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sushi restuarant...
one of the servers
wears a hijab
--gillena cox

Linking today to Thursday's Challenge theme - WOOD

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emblazoned on
red ixoras...
near midday heat
--gillena cox

Linking today to Ruby Tuesday Too AND Texture Tuesday AND Tuesday Muse AND Our World Tuesday

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night stars hidden...
flavours
of breakfast
--gillena cox

Back Linking to Shadow Shot Sunday 2 AND Linking to Monday Mellow Yellow

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Linked today to Sunday Whirl Wordle #124; read the other Wordles here

An inky sky, to sway webs, light as feathers whirling close to stars, where sparks, splintered from oiled wheels of day and night, no doubt somersaults; a scarlet arrow shoots a hole through the abyss where wet surfaces of ocean murmurings dared to ripple; like moonlight over lost intergalactic asteriods

staccato treetops...
the spiral sounds of
helicopter flights
--gillena cox

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wildflowers...
purples whites, reds, all
nameless to me

a grand-baby
cradled in my arms...
soft glow of moonlight

cooing of pigeons...
all of morning
stirs to life
--gillena cox

27 #liberty,26 #love, 25 #life; haiku written for NaHaiWriMo; Michelle Harvey is the prompter for August

Linking Today to Texture Tuesday
AND Ruby Tuesday AND CARPE DIEM AND Wild Berries

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Linking today to Sunday Whirl Wordle #123



keep your fierce bitter winds
enough! cries out Sister Ocean

all the questions gusting through
pieces of sun-bleached beaches
----gillena cox


(An image from Google was used, to produce a greyscaled cropped train image for this post)

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Its Renku Saturday #42, add your verse if you wish, i'll edit and pin it upfront also revisit Renku Saturday #41

old friends...
smiles of remembrances
surface
--gillena cox


stars' meeting
which one
speaks first
--Chiyo-ni (1701-1775)


late summer grasses . . .
how my old friend
has aged
-- Bill


wilderness twilight—
even tiny broken things
are murmuring truth
--Mystical Magical Teacher

Linked today to Six Word Saturday AND Recuerda Mi Corazon - Haiku My Heart

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Back linking today to Sunday Whirl Wordle #122


she dreamed of years nestled
in the space between degrees

paying tribute
a period if the heart may
and vision stay

persuaded to skip lightly
along her diamond rimmed floor
--gillena cox

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bush tea Jigsaw Puzzle
relates to 1259

enjoy the jigsaw puzzle; click to play online; than add your poem at comments, if you wish

Linking today to Wordless Wednesday - BlogShe

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luring us to dance
sunshine
plays her tune
--gillena cox


Linking today to Ruby Tuesday AND Our World Tuesday

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August nights...
already paranderos
vibe the dark
--gillena cox


#paranderos = parang singers; revisit other parang posts here or click on parang at Labels


Linking today to Recuerda Mi Corazon - Mornings With Mary

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rain at the windows
some one remembers winter...
Sunday savvy
--gillena cox

Many Caribbean people will remember those days of our childhood, when we were (yuk!!!) forced into
drinking potions of well meaning cups of (foul tasting) bush tea for all kinds of disorders, most common of aliments, coughs, colds and fevers. Then we grew up and our travels around planet earth tooks us to various climes, traditions and samplings of cultures and we now encounter the stylish term of herbs. Or we start browsing the grocery counters for all kinds of (alternative medicines) in the form of attractively packaged 'herbal teas' - good anitoxidants, great stess relievers, etc etc and on reading the lables we muse, Oh yes my mum used to give us such and such to drink for such and such ailments.

Why am i talking bush tea and herbs this Sunday? Well, still fresh in my mind is yesterday's Book Club Mingle (a meeting of more than one of our Nalis book clubs) in celebration of our reading the series 'The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' written by Alexander Mc Call Smith. We skyped the author (he in Edinburgh) and (we here in downtown Port of Spain) and chattered with him about his life his work his passion for writing. The main character in these books, Precious Ramotswe loves and is always drinking or offering to someone cups of red bush tea. Our day's session included a tour of The Nalis building, a session on African wrapping of clothing for head and body styles, a game which quizzed groups on the books in the series, time to intermingle chat and get to know persons from each book club, and a viewing in part of the HBO production of one of the books. How's your weekend going?

Sunday Smiles



Linked today to tag 1 Shadow Shot Sunday
tag 2 Kaleidoscope Sunday
Linked today to tag 3 Sunday Scribblings
tag 4 Lovely Sunday Quotes
tag 5 Sunday Whirl
tag 6 Issa's Sunday Service
tag 7 Sunday In My City
tag 8 Silly Sunday
tag 9 Straight Out Of The Camera Sunday
tag 10 Magpie Tales
Linked today to tag 11 postcards from paradise

Today is #78 in the series Sunday Savvy; revisit Sunday Savvy #77 share your Sunday something email me post a COMMENT or post a URL

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Linking today to The Weekend In Black And White AND
Six Word Saturday AND Week End Reflections

pinwheel jasmines
morning twirled
in twitterings
--gillena cox

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quiet sky...
the cloud wash of orange
morning draws
--gillena cox

Linking today to Orange You Glad Its Friday AND Sky Watch Friday AND Recuerda Mi Corazon Haiku My Heart Friday


End of my photo share taken Saturday August 10th, during promotion (along the Western Main Road in St James) for Great Race August 24th 2013

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Great Race hype Jigsaw Puzzle

Enjoy the jigsaw puzzle click to play online

Linking today to Share The Joy Thursday


photo taken Saturday August 10th, during promotion (along the Western Main Road in St James) for Great Race August 24th 2013

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team support
winners all; the count down
to race day
--gillena cox

Linking today to Outdoor Wednesday



photo taken Saturday August 10th, during promotion (along the Western Main Road in St James) for Great Race August 24th 2013