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Saturday, December 27, 2008

12 days of Christmas - Day Three


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

3 comments:

  1. I borrow a bit from Sparks Journal Volume 6, No 1 (Sept. 1983)Copyright James L. Mulhern)
    ... 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

    ;-)

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  2. Oh dear! not 'a happy camper' at all

    Juhani
    Thanks for sharing; Merry Christmas

    much love
    gillena

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