Advent Alphabet (plus Boxing day)
By Di_Hard
For Onemorething
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A is for Angel and Ash Tree
watching with unpacked calm pale face in cornered dark as ash trees reach, each arm in sleek, moonsliver bark
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B is for Bauble and Rowan Berries
sparkling, empty, always perfect this man-made fruit, unlike seedful berries gloriously unput
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D is for Dove (Decoration and Real)
blind symbol of peace, cut from wordless paper, swings hunger flown further out shy beauty on grey wings
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C is for Cracker and Chestnut
two hands snap! out old joke cheap toy, soon lost and crown velvet lips speak through spikes of secrets swelling brown
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E is for Elf and Evergreens
unseen hands making true lucky children's wishes their coats are never new but, in Winter, riches
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F is for Fairy Lights and Frost
fossilised Life's dark fires strings of electric sweets skimming crystal empires as blue sky's bright heart beats
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H is for Holly (for sale and for song)
Tied wild tamed by gold spray fussily ossified bright red in gloss green sway where feasting blackbirds ride
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G is for Glitter and Gorse
scattering sparkle specks outlast family trees bully wind's brash frolics fresh gold unfurlings tease
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I is for Icing and Ivy
concealing sweetness spreads white, on all made before lushly sheltering birds' first food in next year's store
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J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)
bright sound from high, cold night of promise drawing near dusk; like roofs' slates took flight with joyous jew's harps' cheer
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K is for Kings and Knapweed
gifts for fraught future brought - gold, frankinsence and myrrh purple crown much bee-sought turned finch seedhead sceptre
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L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen
wishful lists, neatly made, flame posted, undefine slow creeping, bark borne jade filaments, mist slick, shine this picture is from Wimedia : https...
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N is for Nativity and Nuts
New faces shine, words spread wide as written long ago unreadable inside instructions how to grow
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O is for Orange Pomander and Ochre Path
juiceful globe, zesty sweet, spiked with cloves' stark, wood scent fallen warmth tessellates - leaf and needle pavement
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Pine Tree (in Home and on Heath)
decorated and in pride of place, dead pretty rain's clear, fresh touch, then sun seeds dazzling gaiety
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Q is for Question and Quarry
"How many days to go?" "8!" Creeping? Or flying? escaping Russian snow woodcock, SHOT! here, dying https://www.woodcock-hunting.com/search?q=woodcock
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R is for Reindeer and Roe deer
proudly pull Santa Claus in sleek, gift-laden sleigh angled grace, tasting grass -* sound *- Heads lift, they're away!
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S is for Snow
light smooths, soothes curves; walk in sleeping prisms' peace sight's a white wall, smell's all, cold's hungry, move or freeze
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T is for Tinsel and Twigs
plastic starlight glinting galaxies on a thread buds on tree-tips hinting wild faith in Spring ahead
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U is for Under the Tree
island in rush-before where mysteries gather arched hush in storm's furor gives small creatures cover
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V is for Voices
spark of carols' joining memories, every age robin's song - day's shining swarf curls on night's sharp edge
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W is for Wrapping Paper and Wind (another go at this)
concealed within patterns every present holds hope high, invisible turns of air change how lives shape
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Y is for Yule log and Yew
wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...
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Z is for Zing
home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...
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