Christmas Morning

Oh Christmas morning
After the solstice
The light returning!

There are lines of colours

In the sky

Changing everything -

Unfolding silver paper,

Pink cotton to warm my skin.

This day begins

Differently - 

The music matches

The sky.

C. LJ 2020

Christmas Eve

Outside, the cold air
Doesn't seem to move.
Inside, in small spaces,
We sit with long nights.
But a tea light,
Advent candle,
Fairy bulb, or
Reflective bauble,
Paints the dark itself
Into a coloured glow,
Just as a star was tasked with
Making stable straw
Silver, long ago.
See how even the little light
Of a doll's house lantern,
Transforms the play room,
So too we can
Replicate the stars
Against dark walls,
And watch
While we wait.


C. LJ 2020

Circles

The World
Is not round
It has sharp corners
Hard walls
And
Stop signs.
But among
These straight lines
You curve,
Show me what circles
Look like -
Mirror the moon
At night time
And what Nature
Tried to be
Ever -
The soft side.




C. LJ 2020