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photo - wildflowers in my backyard

violets
they are not
these red wild ones
yet who knows the names of
every dream in the sunshine
--© gillena cox




Revisit
colours
more and more
whiteness


I am blog hopping today at Carpe Diem Special #143, Kala Ramesh's "wild violets"


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Ruby Tuesdays Too


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Our World Tuesday

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i used an internet image cropped it applied several filters and frame for this resulting haiga


call us back to
innate beauty with sure bursts -
flute-shaped furlings

by chance to gaze -
bright golden sunlight kissing
your blooms lightly

billow and swirl
ye winds of March April May -
astound yellows

they sing the songs
of joyous Easter season -
yellow poui

craft the mornings
repair the noon day angst
of fiery swoons

gently your hand
deal; for only a short while
these *poms exist

add a frame of
poesy; words to linger
as blossoms fall
© gillena cox

*poms = pom-poms shortened


Revisit
piercing
sunbeams
Sunday Lime 1

The golden aura of poui can still be seen on the mountain sides; so uplifting


Sunday Smiles



How is your Sunday going? Today is #31 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





I am blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry 248


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And back-linking to
Sunday Whirl Wordle #205

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crop of an internet image was filtered and framed to produce this haiga

still early enough
to take the garbage out -
preening bird
© gillena cox





I'm blog hopping today at Carpe Diem Sparkling Stars #22, Basho's "where the hototogisu is singing".



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stopping to watch a mocking bird - 6W

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photo - wildflowers in my backyard

FILLING THE MORNING WITH WONDER - A HAIKU STRING
how they twitter
these birds of the morning -
breath in breath out

breath in breath out
the newness of today
tis sweet repast

tis sweet repast
dew drops frost green leaves -
ah sun rising

ah sun rising
shards of light image the walls
azure-filled window

filling the morning with wonder/watergrass flower suckles a bee
© gillena cox




Written for the prompt today at
Poems In April DAY SEVENTEEN Transforming Fridays with Nature's Wonders


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As part of International Haiku Poetry Day, there is the EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration.
The inaugural EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration begins at 12:01 A.M. at the International Date Line, and rolls throughout the day. click here to participate

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Bee and Watergrass Flower - digital painting


Week 6 Year 5




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Express Your Creativity week-16


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Recuerda Mi Corazon haiku my heart - international


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sitting in the garden
the sweet smell of roses
— the cry of seagulls
© Chèvrefeuill

a bee lured to the wildflower
i gaze at its delicate beauty
© gillena cox

Carpe Diem Time Machine #8,Perfume


sitting in the garden
the sweet smell of roses
— the cry of seagulls
a bee lured to the wildflower
i gaze at its delicate beauty
©Chèvrefeuill/gillena cox

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crop of an internet image was filtered and framed to produce this image

with wings fanned
a mocking bird on the wall -
silent views
© gillena cox



Revisit

day moon
greyness
interlocking




Carpe Diem #708, Wisdom

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the rumbling earth -
thoughts of angry gods seep through
the control of breath
© gillena cox






Carpe Diem #707, Breath Control

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Mac Donalds, Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain Trinidad



Series Picture Post Cards #38


flash of yellow -
the underbelly of a
kiskadee in flight
© gillena cox



Revisit
sunny day
frenzied
kis ka dee



I am blog hopping today at
Monday Mellow Yellows




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Carpe Diem #706, Delusion

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great-tailed grackle from google dot com

good morning
to the grackle on the wall -
daintyly skipping
[20150412]

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perched on a rock
the song of a grackle
swift in passing
[20150222]

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a grackle hops in
smell of freshly cut grass
one them another
[20150126]

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new years day... a grackle stops
among the ixoras... briefly
[20140101]

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skip of grackles
across a church lawn...
sun bright day
[20140403]

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our pockets filled
of every necessity...
gaze of two grackles
[20140908]

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follow the curve of the road...
dark beaks of grackles peck
a frangipani strewn lawn
[20141228]

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trickling water...
light footed a grackle
alights on a rock
[20130529]

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ocean breezes -
in the beak of a blackbird
some kind of berry
[20121114]

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one black bird singing
to the light of morning -
i too am alone-
[20120121]

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a grackle
flown from the lines
limes with pigeons
on the street
[20120119]

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sunlight -
morning espied
through the eye
of a grackle
[20120417]



in the stillness
a few grackles fly in
ruffling the palms
[20100320]
© gillena cox



Revisit
zip haiku
our pockets
Sunday Lime 1



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AND NOW ---Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by WALLACE STEVENS
I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.


II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.


III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.


IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.


V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.


VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.


VII
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?


VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.


IX
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.




I have been participating in the Month of April poems at 'imaginary garden' from my blog 'verses'. Today, DAY TWELVE, i'm posting from Lunch Break

Sunday Smiles



How is your Sunday going? Today is #30 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





I am blog hopping today at
Poems In April DAY TWELVE - Sunday's Mini-challenge: Wallace Stevens'
CHALLENGE: to write a new poem or prose poem inspired by a line, title, verse or style of Wallace Stevens.


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Poetry Pantry 247

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hope rolls in
mundane days cower before
pink poui
© gillena cox



inspiration for today's digital art piece: Poui in bloom around The Queens Park Savannah Port of Spain Trinidad




Revisit
Easter breezes
i know
through


I'm blog hopping today at
Week 5 Year 5



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Carpe Diem #703, Karma

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MacDonald's; Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain Trinidad, 2015

encouraging
the morning on -
kiskadee's song
© gillena cox




Revisit
days of
signs
when they



I am blog hopping today at
signs signs


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Thursday's Challenge"TWO" (Twins, Two of Anything,...)

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viewing lotus -
with quiet grace the ducks
skim the water
© gillena cox

Revisit
cover
La Vega
round leaves


I am blog hopping today at Carpe Diem Special #141, Kala Ramesh's "lotus viewing"

1631

Easter joy
she shares a cheesey smile -
all her eggs dyed

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back against the wall
refusing to rise,
the homeless man
will this be
his abode for the night
© gillena cox -TT


Easter morning
the sheets pulled back
on the empty bed
© Michael Baribeau - USA



Revisit
nightfall
dawn
Sunday Lime 1




HAPPY EASTER 2015 FROM ZURI AND GRANDMA GILLENA, SUNDAY SMILES




How is your Sunday going? Today is #29 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





I am blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry 246

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photo courtesy Tomislav Maretić: haiku poet/friend

shroud of dawn -
the Good Friday procession
begins
© gillena cox


Revisit
Good Friday 2011


A HAPPY HOLY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL MY LUNCH BREAK VISITORS

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image courtesy The Telegragh



holy week -
in the see-again-movies list
Ben Hur
© gillena cox


Revisit
Oz...
queue
holy week



I am blog hopping today at Carpe Diem #698, Chariot