Monday, December 19, 2011

Advent Poem IV

lighting a fourth candle means
nearness

when the kids were all eager hands and eyes
there were four songs before we could eat

it was tradition
o come
------what child
--------------angels
---------------------joy to

each candle lit in turn
inside the little green
Christmas tree-shaped holder
the first candle already down to a nub

a clamber ensued
whose turn to blow them out

the fourth candle meant nearness
as we sang our songs with
bow tied hearts

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