Gifts of Haiku For Baby Jesus 2023

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cloudless midnight&nbsp; carolers offer an ancient song&nbsp; of new life&nbsp; © Rick Daddario Let us go forth, every day, pregnant with Jesus&nbsp; © Susan Delphine Delaney Midnight--- Peace is born in a stable&nbsp; © Susan Furst snow on Christmas long ago memories before climate change&nbsp; © Adelaide Shaw

neighbourhood music day one twenty twenty four - i awake gladly © Gillena&nbsp;Cox sun, clouds, rain, snow the new year begins with unsettling news ©Adelaide Shaw looking up a twinkle in the sky ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

coming my way the many good wishes - spirit of Christmas © Gillena&nbsp;Cox foggy night outdoor Christmas lights twinkle me&nbsp; ©Adelaide Shaw midnight mass--- the string of Christmas lights on the highway ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

new year calendar - &nbsp;appealing to the senses&nbsp; &nbsp;the beautiful fruit © Gillena&nbsp;Cox snowflake stars a swaddling gown fit for a King ©&nbsp;Susan Furst fridgid morning warming up with coffee and the Christmas blanket ©Adelaide Shaw

2023 GIFTS OF HAIKU FOR BABY JESUS:

a haiku event at facebook where we write haiku for 12 days; inspired by a chosen Christmas Carol starting Christmas day

In Christmas sunshine &nbsp;the kiskadee on the wall - &nbsp;lingering a while © Gillena&nbsp;Cox watering the tree keeping alive the spirit of Christmas ©Adelaide Shaw Christmas journey a skein of geese&nbsp; unravel the sky ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

old year's day memory - scent of blackeyed peas and rice would fill my kitchen © Gillena&nbsp;Cox end of the year starting a new list of old resolutions © Adelaide Shaw New Year's Eve the baby Jesus found in a fortune cookie ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

stroke of midnight - at last this Christmas night of which joy is sung&nbsp; ........... Christmas morning - a baby kiskadee bird in my garden © Gillena&nbsp;Cox

At first i thought it was a hummingbird.but it was a baby kiskadee i wasn't quick enough to take a photo. Here's a photo from the internet.

Christmas day ended God's love continues shinning.- the morning star Gillena&nbsp;Cox Christmas cookies a nibble now, nibble later and not just the mice&nbsp; ©Adelaide Shaw shepherd's field the sky full&nbsp; of angelsong ©Susan&nbsp;Furst

Gifts Of Haiku For Baby Jesus

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR

tree lights blinking - the season wanes with a gift&nbsp; ever present © Gillena&nbsp;Cox stale Christmas cookies birds and squirrels getting fat ©Adelaide Shaw jingle bell band . . . all the little church bells ringing ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

a new year - stuck to the wall a new calendar © Gillena&nbsp;Cox gifts to return grandma forgets how quickly kids grow ©Adelaide Shaw peace on earth all the stuffed animals taking a nap ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

DAY TWO

Adelaide B Shaw; USA Adjei Agyei-Baah; Ghana (posthumus) Gillena Cox; Trinidad Keith Simmonds; France Rick Daddario; US Susan Delphine Delaney; US Susan Furst; US

wings and sweet strains - contemplation on angels&nbsp;&nbsp; in midnight hour © Gillena&nbsp;Cox old nativity the glittered plastic stable missing yonder star ©&nbsp;Susan Furst

Thanks to all participants for making this 2023/24 event a huge success Wishing all a Bright and Creative New Year

This anthology includes the haiku of Adelaide B Shaw which was shared at The Twelve Days of Christmas festival at Lunch Break

gillena cox; Founder/Editor

It was a great shock to us at facebook yesterday, to her of the death of our haiku friend, Ghanian Adjei Agyei-Baah who had been writing towards his doctorate in New Zealand. He passed away suddenly.&nbsp; RIP dear Adjei [I am very fond of this contemplatve ku.&nbsp;This is from Adjei,s&nbsp; book 'Afriku: Haiku and Senryu from Ghana with a foreword by Hidenori Hiruta published in&nbsp; 2016 by RedMoon Press. I rceived the book in 2017 via snail mail; when we did a book swap]

sadly tapping news of my friend's passing - Adjei Agyei-Baah © Gillena&nbsp; Cox

Good Friday the weight of the world on His shoulders © Susan Furst the birth of Christ the death of a friend the upside-down world ©Adelaide Shaw

merry wishes claimed - feverish after Christmas &nbsp;silence of predawn &nbsp;© Gillena&nbsp;Cox A bright star leading&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the shepherds to the manger… no room in the inn © Keith Simmonds cloves--- the sticky sweetness of Christmas oranges ©&nbsp;Susan Furst Christmas cards&nbsp; people i forgot remember me ©&nbsp;Adelaide Shaw

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