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The following are our Christmas Poems and recordings. The animated card is on our Facebook pages.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Ed & Shirley, 24 Dec 11

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Christmas Poems

© Copyright 2011
E. G. Happ
16b Ruelle de la Muraz
Nyon, CH 1260

All Rights Reserved

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Recording here:

Cedar

Ah, my old friend,
only you have stood steadfast
thru my years;
the walkway buckles
your roots under my feet;
I notice you late;
it is an autumn day,
still green with life;
I catch my shoe where the seams
do not meet and I am grounded
in your shadows—
all this
I imagine long before
I come to the turn in the flagstone path,
touch the soft fingers of your hands,
and become a child.

Trembly Park, Geneva

A Candle Rose

An unexpected candle in the snow
It stands against the winter night
A rosebud out of season knows

The winter is a time that slows
The days are short, there is no light
An unexpected candle in the snow

This is the spring that always flows
Flakes form a halo of passing white
A rosebud out of season knows

The opening is the now that slows
A king in cradle is a sight
An unexpected candle in the snow

Hark there is an unwrapped bow
A hint of red is ever light
A rosebud out of season knows
An unexpected candle in the snow

Setting

I don’t think
I will ever tire of setting suns—
those little deaths
that come upon the lake
and splash with life
as toddlers in the shallows;
yea, they come with wings
that lift and soar
even in their ebbing—
oh to live
and like a light of burning amber
go out behind the silhouettes
of Alps
and name
upon the wind.

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Poems © Copyright 2011, E.G. Happ and The Fairfield Review, Inc, All Rights Reserved
Photos © Copyright 2011, Shirley Chen, All Rights Reserved