golden pine droplets
fairy cobblers harvest
resin slippers shine
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
Cabbage-Iris Haiku
summer blooms faded
vivid winter iris glows
some consolation
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
Making Spirits Bright
I hope you are all warm, safe and surrounded by love and magic this holiday season! May all the snow that falls be light, fluffy and shining like diamonds. May your dreams shine like the stars, and your dearest wishes come true. Joy to the World!! Merry Christmas!!
Warmly, Brenda
Happy Solstice everyone!
Here is a delightful post from a new friend, Flannelberry. Hope you are enjoying the first longer day. 🙂 Warmly, Brenda
The Solstice Faerie has been, the treasure has been hunted. There is a fire in the stove and tea on top. I can see the first blush of false dawn (at 8:01 am) through the window. Stunning.
Santa is Coming to Town
Ho ho ho! I’ve been to the North Pole, and when Santa heard that you’ve all been naughty and/or nice, he decided you needed some presents! You might prefer a rainbow loom, chocolates, plane tickets to Tahiti, diamonds or the new Beyonce CD, but I’m afraid all I can afford to fit through the internet wires are these little treats. Each and every one of you bloggers should take a present, if you want one, with my good wishes.
Today is the Shortest Day!!
Susan Cooper is a truly great children’s literature writer. She wrote many magical books, including the fantastic five book series, the Dark is Rising. She also has out a new book, Ghost Hawk, set in New England! Woo-hoo! We’ve bought a copy for one of my kids for Christmas (mum’s the word) and I can’t wait to read it myself!!
Here is an excerpt from her book: The Magic Maker, a Portrait of Jack Langstaff, Creator of the Revels, followed by a video of her reading the same poem:
The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
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Midwinter Song
ABOUT ANIMAL FAERIES
A great rhyming fairy delight! Just in time for friendlyfairytale’s midwinter festival!! Woo-hoo! Everyone stay warm and light your lights, even if only your inner light! 🙂 Brenda
ANIMAL FAERIES
(For Halley)
This animal faerie appeals
Wearing her orange peel high heels…
Her swim suit attire
Awaits the transpire
Of swimming with otters and eels.
Her skirt is a fine autumn leaf
With her swimsuit and herself beneath…
She greets a new dawn
By waking a fawn,
Her time before daylight is brief.
Like water faeries off a pond,
This animal faerie’s beyond…
The sight of adults
Who prefer the pulse
Of things to which they can respond.
Stay in faerie worlds while you’re able,
Before you lose interest in “fable”…
There may come a time
To hear other rhyme,
With new interests spread on your table!
—Uncle Jonathan Caswell
(I keep the faeries in my heart…so should you!)
‘Tis the Season Haībun
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
— Erma Bombeck
When I was a child, I hated suspense, and all my energy went into solving mysteries quickly. I generally figured out who did what where in the game Clue, where the flag was in Stratego and what I was getting for Christmas. Continue reading
Wanted: A Partridge
The Partridge has flown away from our pear tree!
Jack Frost’s Artwork!
Elephant’s Picture Book is continuing to find old-time magical pictures. I hope you like Jack Frost. Warmly, Brenda
Jack Frost
Elfin pictures on the pane
Mean Jack Frost has come again;
Lace and ferns and vines and flowers,
Snow-capped peaks and fairy bowers.
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Castles gleaming opalescent,
Rivers flowing iridescent;
Jewels set in filigree,
All in crystal fantasy.
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A Year With the Fairies.
Written by Anna M. Scott.
Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.
P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.
New Day Haiku
The weirdest thing, I published this today, December 18, and the post vanished into the past — December 12! I’m reblogging it for those who’ve bookmarked me and don’t look at their reader, so the entry will be on top. How bizarre! Has this happened to anyone else? Warmly, Brenda
fresh new snow falling
path through a magic portal
leave the past behind
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
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