A Merry Christmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year
Welcome to the Twelve Days of Christmas: A Collaboration
December 25th 2008 to January 5th 2009
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ON THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS
filling
a grey morning sky-
bird whistles
-Gillena Cox; TT
parang music
spreading the good news
from house to house
-Keith A. Simmonds;TT
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ON THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS
no year-end bonus
on this Boxing Day
feeling the crunch
a caring St. Stephen
blesses the unemployed
-Reason A. Poteet, US
wrapped in swaddling-
the baby
Jesus
e-card 'The Ultimate Gift'
-Gillena Cox; TT
the infant
bringing the light
to a world of darkness
-Keith A. Simmonds;TT
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ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS
The Night Before
A Renhai by Vaughn Seward (vs) & Janice Thomson (jt)
Winter bedtime —
the last child tucked in
for the night. /vs
Rising smoke from chimneys — /vs
distant mountain veiled in fog. /jt
Blazing fire —
children's gifts wrapped between
sips of cocoa /jt
-Vaughn Seward; CA
-Janice Thomson; CA
A babe in a stall
The odor of hay and straw
Redemption is born
-Quentin Clingerman; US
ponsettias abloom-
the choir sings clad in white
and red
-Gillena Cox; TT
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The Twelve Days of Christmas; History Meaning Symbolism
All poems in this Christmas sequence are the copyright of the individual writers and should not be reproduced without their permission
I borrow a bit from Sparks Journal Volume 6, No 1 (Sept. 1983)Copyright James L. Mulhern)
ReplyDelete... and eight hours and thirty two minutes later we were in Trininad for an overnight stop. .. We slept in tents located in a swampy area and after some depressing chow were lulled to sleep by the croaking of frogs. ...
Perhaps a short haiku for that:
the croaking of frogs --
a lullaby for
a transit passenger
;-)
Oh dear! not 'a happy camper' at all
ReplyDeleteJuhani
Thanks for sharing; Merry Christmas
much love
gillena
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