new year

Carpe Diem #1112 Music For The Royal Fireworks by Händel
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bells chime twelve
old year fades with the sound
new year begins

winter breath

Carpe Diem #1110 Winter Breath by Adrian von Ziegler
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body heat
escaping slowly
winter breath

Carpe Diem #1108 Promise

dandelion seeds
blown into the winter air
make no promises

Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #7 Twas The Night Before Christmas
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children sleeping
sleigh bells jingle in the sky
Saint Nicholas

Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #6 meditation
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eyes slowly open
meditation disrupted
church bells

Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #4 first snow

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tracks in new snow
trail down a steep hillside
children sledding

Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #3 Christmas Carols

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dark desert night
coyote howls carols
at the Christmas moon

Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #2 silent night

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great horned owl
glides through snow covered trees
only the moon sees

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #1 a new dawn

anger dissolves
like mist from frozen ground
revealing peace

Carpe Diem #1096 The Great Wall of China by Einar Englund
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safe behind the wall
grazing in muddy marshes
water buffalo