Haiku Variations. A Christmas Child, VI

This Christmas child of once

Foresaw the trespasses of our ravenous kind

Justly he pardoned but few

Haiku Variations. A Christmas Child, V

My family shall remain small

To protect the mother we live off

And species in greater need

Haiku Variations. A Christmas Child, IV

Yet I will give fruit

To the tree he once made barren

We promised to do right

Haiku Variations. A Christmas Child, 0.

There is this child speaking

In my mind and in my heart

He guides my path home

December 21.

The best of today 

December twenty-first

Is what follows hereafter 

This longest, darkened night 

It too will fade and wither

The days will lengthen

Spring will come

Because She Loved

She made him make his house beautiful
She made it into a home
She made his life bearable, even liveable , just loveable

A cynic's thought.

I don't believe in old souls

I do believe in lost souls

I am still looking for mine

A three-lined eulogy.

She was mine, always,

And I evermore hers, all these years,

Mine she was, my all.





Dutch translation: 

Zij was mijn, voorgoed,

En ik eeuwig de hare, zovele jaren,

Mijn was zij, mijn alles.