December haiku and senryu

Father John, 80
sending 2800
cards - to keep in touch
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20 degrees~
one...two...three bluebirds feasting
on beautyberries
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winter solstice~
the rhythms
of the noisy fan
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winter solstice~
"change within
the eternal constant"
(from Hal Borland's Sundial of the Seasons)
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70 degrees
in mid-December ... sparrow,
then cardinal bathes
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dewdrops decorate
the dogwood's bare branches
six days till Christmas

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