Saint Nicholas

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

meditation

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 #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

Carpe Diem #1097 Serenade in D major by Ethel Smyth
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train whistle
echoing through the night
lonely serenade

Carpe Diem #1089 Divertimento in D minor, Op. 3, no. 3 by Anna Bon di Venezia

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misty morning
sound of flutes on the lake
raft of loons

Carpe Diem #1087 String Symphony No. 4 in C minor by Mendelssohn

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autumn wind plucks
the strings of a spider’s web
silken symphony

Carpe Diem #1086 Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky

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summer breeze
flowers sway in rhythm
silent waltz