Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Christmas day a seagull circles the empty mall lot     by Crystal Simone Smith (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 44:1, Winter 2021

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: ghost of christmas eve waiting for the bus

Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: a motherdozing on the toiletChristmas music

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: The Quiet Christmas Poetry site is a free version of our large print chapbook. We donated copies to libraries and other places. Karl’s classic Lake Michigan photo is the Cover Art. holinessand humilityChristmas cold country nighttwo deer in the front yardgraze in starlight Christmas night skybecomes sunrisetree branchescovered…

Originally posted on anotherKate: ? It’s been a really wet year, and relying on tank water as we do it’s frustrating to see the tanks overflowing – all that water we can’t store just running down into the gullies! So having talked about it for months, and with the La Nina starting to fade away,…

Originally posted on In the World of Thoughts: Indecisive meSoothing waves and silver moonCaught between the two Copyright (c) 2021 Namrata D Prabhakar

Originally posted on Bending moments: giving into the inevitable… abandoned dog * (Haiku Dialogue – Ad Astra – black holes, Dec.22, 2021)