winter solstice bells ring out with knowing
tall candles light each window
toasts to lengthening days
Since I used the dodoitsu for #10, I’ll use the kimo form for this week.
kigo: winter solstice
Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday.
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Lovely. I love the idea of 24 seasons!
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Dale, thank you. We’re doing the whole 24 seasons on Tanka Tuesday. Each season goes for 2 weeks. Not sure what the last 4 weeks will bring. There’s also a calendar with 72 micro seasons!
https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00124/ Really gets you paying close attention to small movements.
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Yes, there are a couple bloggers I follow who are participating. Fun stuff.
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Here’s to lengthening days!🌞
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Yes! We’re finally on the upswing toward more sunny days… after we get through winter. May your day be filled with winter fun and joy. Happy Yule, Lisa. ❄️
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Thanks, Dear Colleen and may yours also <3
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Thanks so much, Lisa. ❤️
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Very nice Li :-)
Merry Christmas!
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Thanks, Carol Anne. And to You <3
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Lovely Lisa – yes bring on the lighter days ❤️
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<3
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Lovely poem my friend
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Sadje, thank you <3
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You’re welcome my friend
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Your kimo for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday is awesome! I can almost hear those winter solstice bells and see those tall candles lighting up the windows. Cheers to longer days! Your vivid imagery makes is wonderful :-)
~David
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Thanks much <3
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Definite toast to lengthening days … 💞suzanne
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Cheers, Suzanne!
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I like that song…I heard it a few times while writing my last post on Jethro Tull.
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It’s a good’n and it has grown on me. That whole album Songs from the Woods, is mystical and seasonal for me. It’s on my holiday song playlist that am posting on Friday also.
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You are the one that got me listening to them again…after this week I’m posting one that I did months ago.
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Awesome!
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I love the solstice and “toasting to lengthening days” sounds so joyous. Beautiful kimo. Happy Solstice!
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Thank you, Diana, and glad you enjoyed it.
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p.s. Happy Solstice!
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I do look forward to today… Winter Solstice – for the extra light it brings and will continue to bring. :)
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Definitely a cause for celebrations. Happy Solstice and Cheers to you.
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:D
~Thanks.
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I love the celebratory feel of your poem, Lisa!
Yvette M Calleiro :-)
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
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So happy you enjoyed it, Yvette :)
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Oh, the bells. I can hear them in your poem. 🔔🔔🔔
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:) Glad you can, Gwen.
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Great job, Lisa. I love this form! How did you feel working with it?
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Thank you, Luanne. I liked using it. First time. I think maybe there is too much motion in it, per the guidelines, but I still like how it turned out. Practice practice practice.
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Lovely 🥰
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:)
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Happy Solstice blessings to you, Lisa. 🎄
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Colleen thank you and to you also. Nice to think days will start getting longer again now.
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Yes, I always enjoy the return to the light. ☀️
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I’ve been listening to this since you posted it
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Songs from the Wood is on repeat in the car. Such a good holiday album. Glad you like it, Max.
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Happy Solstice, Lisa! Thanks for the Jethro Tull song to remind folks who only know them for their radio hits of their roots.
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Happy Solstice, Steve. You’re right, the radio songs are the tip of the iceberg. Just like Dylan music.
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:-) Here’s to longer days and warmer nights. :-)
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