Cascade

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activity, christmas, decadence, haiku, indulgence, poem, walking

On avoiding decadence, the negative kind.

Christmas approaches
a cascade of indulgence
think I’ll go walking

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Tribe

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christmas, DNA, genealogy, haiku, testing

Cool Christmas present
ancestry DNA kit
Which tribe I wonder?

Merry

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christmas, dogs, haiku, pathos, poetry, sadness

Merry Christmas, ha!
Enjoy your wee tree they said
Come on, let’s go home

Hark!

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christmas, concert, granddaughter, haiku, music, poem, poetry

School Christmas concert
Granddaughter  plays the trumpet
Hark all ye Heralds

 

Cake time

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baking, cakes, christmas, Christmas cake, haiku, poems, puddings

Christmas on its way
Two cakes ready in their tins
Next, it’s the puddings

Cake

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autumn, baking, cale, christmas, fall, haiku, poetry, seasons, weather

Beautiful weather
a fine, balmy autumn day
making Christmas cake

Family

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christmas, family, haiku, holidays, home, kids

This happy Christmas
First time for twenty long years
All the kids at home 🥂🎄

Early tree

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berries, christmas, decorations, haiku, mountain ash, rowan, tree

Bright beads of rowan

Caught on spikes of grey, blue gorse

Early Christmas tree 🎄 

Moon dream

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christmas, full moon, haiku, rarity, weather season

Behind all that cloud
a rare Christmas Day full moon.
One can only dream.

Believe

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christmas, haiku, pagan, Santa, season

the pagan solstice
a joyful turn of the year
believe in Santa 🙂