May your 2024 reach the heights,
while you stay warm and cozy.
May your family be free of fights
and your home quiet and rosy.
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Happy New Year!
Category Archives: Holiday
Sunset Magic
sunset unfolds
one still summer night,
and restores my mood
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Together by the Tree
out of the rain and snow,
laughing away long dark days
beside the tree
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Snug and Cozy
snug and cozy
despite the gales of winter,
family and friends:
carols, games, laughter and fun,
serious thoughts left behind
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Goldenrod After Rainfall
Mount Greylock, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
wringing out
a rain-soaked t-shirt,
my son smiles
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Abandoned at the Railyard
still sidecars
no schedule or passengers,
just ghost conductors
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à-côté de la mer — beside the sea
Light on the Darkest Nights
Moonlight falls
from high in the sky,
silvering
the latticed pine branches,
softly shining
on every trembling needle
like summer’s
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Year’s End Cheer
May your days be full of cheer,
with everyone you hold dear
feeling well and full of fun —
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Happy 4th!
garden fireworks,
summer itself celebrates
in red, white and blue
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Happy Father’s Day
Weekends, my dad plowed
through paperwork, pruned trees,
tinkered with the mower, fixed
bicycles, toasters, skinned knees.
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A Day for Mothers
a day for mothers,
pear blooms scented by lilacs
dapple the sunshine
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