Nature December Poems

We have waited (or we suffered),
depending on what you believe.
For this festive celebration,
everyone knows as New Year’s Eve.

We proclaim our good intentions,
of starting all over...

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10:27 Post Meridiem 
Eastern Standard Time,
Thursday December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) 
Sunset time: 4:46 pm ?(239°)
Day length:...

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The morning mist’s a pearl so pure
As ice is etched with crystal filigree
While the silvery frost ensures
A touch of tinsel on every tree

And when she...

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December evening, silver and scarlet
Icicles and tinsel shimmer
Festive lights like dazzling garnets
Begin to glitter, glow and glimmer

December evening, scarlet and silver
The darkest season’s full of...

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mistletoe season ~
	time to pucker up and kiss
		the dung on a stick...

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	really
	chilly
...

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Giving gifts ~ required boxes are filled ...

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The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of...

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OLD MAN WINTER
SNUCK UP ON ME.
I REALIZED THIS
WHEN I SAW MY TREE.

NO LEAVES ON THE TREE
POOR TREE WAS BARE
WINTERS FROST
WAS IN THE AIR.

THE CLOUDS WERE...

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I
-- Stopped to chat: at the one store open
This second day of 2023 here:
Where a month from mid- December
Is the usual "holiday" for child &...

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My heart is a charcoal gray
With silver specks in the sun
Tomorrow is New Year's Day
And this old year, my dear, is done

A bit of moss...

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In March I asked the daffodil
What secrets it might hold
And like the loose-lipped lily
The flower gladly told 

Now December’s icy breath
Shudders the shriveled rose
And I...

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December, thou art more to me
Than all of gold October 
More than April’s emerald sea
With June’s jewels spilling over 

December, how you shimmer so
Compared to...

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flashfloods surging
Christmas hope* wrapped by tents~
candles sparkle

*Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God...

December 27, 2022...

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Shortest day, longest night 
Celebration of light
Glistening ice and snow
Temperatures low
Bare trees
Ponds freeze

Dress warm
Long sleeve uniform 
Cardigans and sweatshirts 
Goodbye mini skirts
Silk and wool 
Indoor...

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