Lovely haikusssssssss everyone - I really loved your write SALLY - eloquently stated! ALAN of course - bringing the humor for the season = Loved it!

AWESOME write V = the very last line of the couplet Good night, "White Season." = very nice - exquisite really.

Very nice write from ERIK as well -----> nice job you guys

Jacquii.

When Diamonds Fall

Celestial ice dance
acrobatic diamonds fall
intricate displays.

Crystalized glazed frost
snowflake kissing evergreens
graceful symmetry.

My inspiration is part the Science of Snowflakes, and
part the aesthetic quality of snowflakes. With no
two snowflakes being the same, thus, no winter
images are the same. That is beautiful.....

Painted

Christmas is unfair,
When you live in Australia,
As there is no snow.

I can't be happy,
'Til my tummy is full up,
With food and fruit cake.


I wrote this after reading all these other entries about snow and romanticising about it all. I don't get snow here in Brisbane, and i want to see it so badly!! My favourite part of Christmas is the food and christmas pudding so thats what i wrote my second stanza about.

Kim- I liked the similies used to describe snow. Falling flakes can appear diamond like to the imaginary eye. I'm diggin this..after that DEEP submission of "Bravery Write", I can't doubt your craft and skillz..
Much luv your way....V3

CHRISTMAS, ENCAPSULATED

Orderly progress
of life, til it's Christmas time
too much joy, chaos

Wild flurries of snow
whole world is turned upside down :
God shakes our bubble

Alan McAlpine Douglas

Thinking of those kitch bubbles of glass you pick up and shake or invert to get mad snow-flurries - Christmas is exactly that, all (no not hell ! ) heaven breaks loose - frantic shopping, food preparation, family gatherings, fights, etc etc, til the flurry settles down and we get back to normal life.

Santa's in a rush,
presents come to all of us,
no one makes a fuss,

I wanted this, Dad,
Santa thinks I've been so bad,
children whine and cuss,


Sometimes I write about the thing sthat are real that aren't exactly perfect,
I know the world and I know it not perfect, those parts become humorful,
and I was one of those greedy little children who wanted presents whining and fussing one year and never got anything, just like I deserved,
this moment in Christmas was allot easier than writing as beautiful as painted,
it still captures part of Christmas though.

Great Haiku Everyone!
I am in the middle of typing out the legend of the Peacemaker's birth for a Culture Class at our local college and this is what inspired me to write the following:




Actually, now there are six nations in the Iriquois Confederacey but the Tuscarora did not join until much later.

Traditionalists believe that this is where the Christmas Tree originated. The first white settlers adopted this custom from the Iriquois but replaced the Eagle with a star. From here it went to Germany where St. Nicholas was added and then spread throughout Europe where St. Nicholas became Santa Claus.

snow fell crystaline
dog pissed all over it - yeah
child sipped on snowball

i saw - sunken hill:
god in his omnipotence.
for the truth: Christmas

inspiration of this very lonely and highly cynical haiku couplet: today I watched my own Mama run from turmoil of "you and your brother's nasty ways..."

suffered a horrid push and dislocated shoulder in the process... makes me wonder where is this God that so many claim to know...?

also inspired by a childhood fantasy-image of "yellow" snow ----> Mama always used to say - "play lovely and play good in the snow kids - just don't mess with the yellow snow" LOL

cynical though it may be - makes me wonder how I can be so hopeful about ultimate retribution at the same time.... ----innuendo of ugh----

Jacquii.

Pine for the wildness of the brush,
ground of mush,
sap of Pine brings a loud hush.

Riding the branch down her slope,
it's thrusting trunk,
fulfilling her most requested hope.










The Pine decorated and standing
outside the bay window at the
holidays.

Not sure if this is what you were
asken for, please advise??

Thank you Ms V for the kind words...

Good one Ms Jacquii

Painted

Homecoming

Trumpets wail a song
Everlasting peace we sing
Clouds paint a lining.

Toast to harmony
Joyful tears bid war farewell
Blood stained spirits heal.

Inspiration was the theme itself...Everlasting Peace. I thought of the war, and our brave that we have lost, those who are injured, and those still fighting this war, families of the victims, and families of the soldiers still fighting. Endless....