almost dawn
small pink poinsettia
waits by the window

years
generations
stories

told
in many
ways

how love
may change
yet endures

a barge with lights
travels our great lake . . .
thoughts and prayers
for those with thoughts
of home

reading
the Christmas story
sounds
of carpenters
at work

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Poems are from my archives.

Ellen Grace Olinger