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[Christmas tree photo gillenacox 2024]

                        With

                        baubles

                         beads and 

                      tinsel, our tree

                     of my childhood

                      days, sparkled and

                    glowed through angel

                   hair, everything factory

                       made.

                            

   A

 bit of

   angel hair

     adds to a tree

      a magical touch 

       only a child can see,

       like spider web; elegant,

       diaphanous and whimsical

       fa la la la la, la la la la, fine,

      fa la la la la, a delicate lace

   angel  

 hair

     

                  © gillena cox 2024

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[image from Pinterest]

thundering hoofs on 

the black & white TV screen - 

a child's excitement

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[magi from Pinterest]

THERE MUST BE THREE

"I fell off my horse."  "You fell off your horse! Who does that at your age and with your experience. You should be accustomed to your horse, so much so you should be able to gallop through open fields or tree thronged forest with your eyes closed. So how about the camel. Would you be able to make the ride through the desert to adore the divine baby?"  He didn't answer his wife the queen, instead  he murmured to himself: You drew stars.

Around my scars the skin is still swollen and is looking bluish. Silently, he pondered, those other two magi  cannot make me look bad. I have to heal. And heal quickly.

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“You drew stars around my scars” is a line from Taylor Swift we had to use in a prose/ flash fiction

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[image from google]

 Turkey the bird of Thanksgiving

After the the family praying

On the table stuffed and ready

Is thinly sliced like Christmas ham

Placed on the plates for all to nam

But some folks have left already

Why the swift departure of them

Wanting to leave the table ahem

Maybe  traffic is insteady

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SUN FIELDS

 They set out early to harvest sunfruit

Earthlings thought the sun was a star

Those earthlings their thoughts are so cute

 Woman carry a large earthen jar

For the radiant fields are ripe and a-plenty

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a photo taken at Lopino 2008

 PARANG AGAIN

To wit and with humour plenty,

The bard pens his parang merry,

A song of Christmas,

Caribbean borne, alas

No snow,

But angels a plenty show,

Us joy with their parang songs.

Adore him,

Gift him,

Love is borne again,

Merry the time again.

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[dragon image from google]

Dragon Fold

He ravaged far villages, he was so mean,

People lost patience and mind.

What can we do they wailed on scene

This really cannot go on

Drought must be stopped. he was so mean,

He must be stopped, and stopped now.

A tiny boy they had treated as unseen

Raised his voice to highest decibels

We must go to Dragon at Mountain Kleen

Exacerbated they all agreed because

Drought, Drought was the demon, he was so mean.

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 Spewing puppies?

Treking through the paths at The Wildfowl Trust. Rocky's is anxious to get to the  paperbark tree, to hug the tree, since some of his friends had told him, how soft as velvet the tree trunk was.

Suddenly his mother asks, "where is Rocky?"  Rocky she shouts and Rocky suddenly appears, like out of nowhere.

His mother hugs him and looks at his face for scratches or cuts then spins him around. "Are you okay Rocky?" We thought you might be abducted by aliens, when we didn't see you.

They reach the pavilion and stop to have some refreshments. Rocky says he is not hungry. But after mom's persistent nagging, tries to eat a sandwich.

He retches violently and out of his stomach spews a fluffly little puppy.

"What's happening!" everyone exclaims. "That is not our Rocky". Mom cries out and raises her arms upward in anguish.

an angry dog snarls 

fierce fangs turn to antennae -

clear blue sky above

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