pittypatter: Advent 2014

~Advent Wreath-Google images~

 

 

Advent: 2014

(an Octo sequence)

It’s Advent—twenty-fourteen now--

too many years since last I wrote.

 

I fill my time with handbells, choir

 

--requiring diligence--and bills

 

and cats and house and med refills.

I fill my time with handbells, choir.

Too many years since last I wrote,

 

it’s Advent—twenty-fourteen now.

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I used to write an Advent verse

each year, till life got in the way--

 

especially after I retired.

 

I penned one novel, then one more.

 

Activities came to the fore,

especially after I retired.

Each year, till life got in the way,

I used to write an Advent verse.

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I hereby vow to take more time

to celebrate the Advent Child,

to live expectantly each day

 

as if the second-coming’s near;

 

make ready, leave no room for fear.

To live expectantly each day,

to celebrate the Advent Child,

 

I hereby vow to take more time.

 

PL - 2014