Image: Wet Christmas Eve
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Showers of blessings
Confined indoors, high spirits
despite wet Christmas
Faithfuls of all creeds
Gathered at 'Open Houses'
Rejoiced together
Written for Brian's hosting at d'Verse OpenLinkNights week 76 - Holiday Edition
wet and cold christmas here as well..had hoped for snow, but we kept it warm playing indoors all day...together def makes the holidays all the better...smiles.
ReplyDeletemerry christmas hank
Thank you Brian. Merry Christmas to you too! Over here, we've had 'Open House' fare where anyone can just drop in and mingle. As such a wet Christmas was not an obstacle. However, there were low-lying areas inundated with floods!
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Quite like that Hank. Aloha
ReplyDeleteYes, it is Cloudia! Merry Christmas to you too!
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We just had a first taste of snow here Hank ~
ReplyDeleteHoping yours was a good one ~ Thanks for your visits ~
Merry Christmas Hank.
ReplyDeleteA little snow here, was quite nice, but any other day I'd take rain.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is the getting together that makes it special, Hank! You have the idea 100% right. Hope you had a good day, my friend.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a special custom. Merry!
ReplyDelete"Showers of blessings
ReplyDeleteConfined indoors"
It's all in the perspective, is it not?
"Open Houses" of all faiths == nice image.
ReplyDeleteAnd open houses of all non-faiths too, I am sure.
I think it is 80% of Europe and 20% of USA consider themselves religion-free.
How many in your country?
When each can consider themselves no more special, privileged or loved than the others, then we really will have "Open Houses" -- Now that will be a Holiday to celebrate.
If by religion-free you mean atheists and animists then ours should be a very much smaller %. Invariably everyone will have some form of religion. I can't venture out to seek an absolute % though. Perhaps 0.5% out of a population of 28.8 mil people in 2011. This is merely a guess.
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Ah the moonsoon...I made sure that I escaped it this year. Merry Christmas Hank and thank you for your visits throughout the year.X
ReplyDeleteHad a sprinkling of snow on Christmas morning just to make the perfect outside tableaux. Great to see these verses, in celebration.
ReplyDeleteMarvelous holiday write!
ReplyDeleteI love the reference to "faithful of all creeds." And why shouldn't we all share the joy of one another's festivities?
ReplyDeleteShowers of blessing, loved this haiku. Happy holidays
ReplyDeleteshowers of blessings to all..
ReplyDeletethank you
Nice to rejoice together with others...but not to be out in the cold alone looking in...hope your holidays are bright ;)
ReplyDeleteLovely holiday write !
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