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 Merry Christmas

May your home be filled with joy. Your heart be at peace and your life full of laughter.

Welcome to the 16th Celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas here at Lunch Break: a haiku Christmas festival. 

With the sharing of simultaneous posting from the 9th year of Gifts of Haiku for Baby Jesus event  from facebook; where "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is the carol of inspiration

You can share a haiku, video, or pictures here at comments. You can share a post at the linky.,

DAY  FIVE

sadly tapping

news of my friend's passing -

Adjei Agyei-Baah

© gillena  cox; St James Trinidad

It was a great shock to us at facebook yesterday, to her of the death of our haiku friend, Ghanian Adjei Agyei-Baah who had been writing towards his doctorate in New Zealand. He passed away suddenly.  RIP dear Adjei

[I am very fond of this contemplatve ku. This is from Adjei,s  book 'Afriku: Haiku and Senryu from Ghana with a foreword by Hidenori Hiruta published in  2016 by RedMoon Press. I rceived the book in 2017 via snail mail; when we did a book swap]

morning dew -

perhaps heaven weeps

for mankind

© Adjei Agyei-Baah

Good Friday

the weight of the world

on His shoulders

©  Susan Furst; USA

the birth of Christ

the death of a friend

the upside-down world

©Adelaide Shaw USA

© Rick Daddario;  USA

this post will be edited throughout the day to include coments and haiku from the facebook event