poets

Let me see if I

can add miles to my run

As Christmas draws near

Haiku 2019 CMM December

Today I celebrated life!

The sea whispers

Breath comes in and then out

In a distance it sweet roar

Crescendos in a swell

Of soft breeze travels through

I feel tranquilizing sleep

We try to linger in the unknown

We are just too human

So I fall asleep with feelings

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a full moon light shines

just in sight, reflecting on

sleeping Queen Anne’s Lace

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a cover white might

Otherwise make sight of what

Others see alike

full moon cloaks white clouds

Wind sways in celebration.

Oak tree leaves promise

I climb hills to run

Trees beside the hot road sway

beckons endurance

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Christmas lights flicker

into colors, green and red.

The silence of the season

hangs in what is not said.

It is the knowing you are not here

your smile I miss the most,

The quiet way you made it so

a holiday Christmas toast.

I will miss our first Christmas

with you not around.

I will miss all the other Christmas’

in memory do resound.

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• Literature and Art Studies

•       CHRISTINE McNEILL-MATTESON, A Walk among the Brushes. A Personal Reflection 
                         of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Poet