Adults' Submissions Set 13

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Slowly the snow makes a burial of things.
We've done too much burying this year.
But someday there will be a Great Spring
When things lost beneath the snow are found again.
Meanwhile, in winter:
Follow a star in the darkness.
Let a candle in the window guide you home.

Elizabeth Anna Hall, Minneapolis, MN

Choices

Today
Unlike any other
Make time

Cookies to decorate
Friendships to rekindle
Mistakes to heal
Monopoly to play
Kindness to deliver
Stories to weave
Laughter to spread
Poems to share
Children to tease
Moments to savor

Choices
Of living

Tomorrow
Unlike any other
Make time

Cindy Johnson-Groh, St. Peter, MN

Hours of Shopping Malls
Wads of dough big as balls
Martha-ly Stewarty time of the year...
Eggnog and Springerle
days off with family
Oh thank Heavens, at last Christmas's here!

Kathleen Ferguson, Minneapolis, MN

muslims at ramadan
jews at hanukkah
christians at advent and christmas
all gather
at time's great table
to celebrate
the Light


in this time
darkness thinning our days
let us remember
the solstice we all somehow seek

Mark Berge, Moorhead, MN

For all that we have been
For all that we are
For all that we may yet be.

Nick Nichols, Houston, MN

Let the bells ring
and your heart sing
each day that you live.

Revel in the simple things,
ponder what mystery brings,
each day that you live.

Let your love take wing
to touch many who can't sing
each day that you live.

Carol Brusegar, Minneapolis, MN