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Keep it all the year…

December 23, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

miniscule candles
sit atop the windowsill
never to be lit

talya

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  1. Staci Sandquist says

    December 23, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Reminds me of my little sugar snowmen :))

  2. Anonymous says

    December 23, 2012 at 8:30 am

    “Hark, I bring you glad tidings of great joy.” B

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      December 23, 2012 at 10:36 am

      Hark to you as well:)

  3. pittypatter says

    December 24, 2012 at 5:51 am

    Great senryu. I may ask to use it in my Dec. 13 monthly.

    • Kaa says

      December 27, 2012 at 9:49 am

      Thanks for introducing to me the word ‘senryu,’ which led me to discover that there’s more than just seventeen syllables to a haiku.

    • Kaa says

      December 27, 2012 at 10:04 am

      Ha! I just saw that you’re a retired teacher. You taught me something accidentally. 🙂 I guess the instincts never die, huh? 🙂

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      December 27, 2012 at 10:41 am

      She taught me something too:)

  4. TimH says

    December 26, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Awesomeness! This pic makes a wonderful Christmas card! As they say back home, ‘You got skills, girlfriend!’=)


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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