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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A chilly breeze, the mistletoe sways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A brush of wings…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fairies may have passed your way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A glitter dusting, a playful sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A merry heart…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christmas fairies might be nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A blanket of snow, where daisies grew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A friendly fairy might be there with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A shiny bright star, in the night sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shines on a pixie…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seen out of the corner of one’s eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I love holiday fairies, it’s true I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Merry Christmas! Happy Holiday’s!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And I hope you love all my jolly fairies too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">fairy Christmas. I made sock gnomes and fairies from dolls</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to go along with my resin fairies. I repainted my garden troll</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had them outside around a pond several years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and brought in some tree pieces from the woods behind our house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It took me several weeks to get it all done but I love the results and </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">all the fairies. I hope you enjoy the pictures and the poem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Merry Christmas,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Have you kissed a lion’s face?</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Maybe one that’s unaware…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">His tears seem so out of place.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I’ve had the lion’s share…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I know he wishes he’d been there more.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">For his granddaughter along the way.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Wishes you hadn’t heard him roar…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">When there were words left to say.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Most of the time we are right here…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">With the living — until we slip away.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Until we feel the overwhelming feeling, you’re near.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">If I could talk to a younger self…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Send a message about what really matters.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I’d say — “Don’t worry about the messy brushstrokes, </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">splotches, and the splatters.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">“Don’t lose faith and focus.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">“The blunders are part of the art.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I’d say — “The master artist tells us all is forgiven,</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">“If we allow him in our heart.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I’d say — “Forgive and ask for forgiveness,</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">while the paint is still wet.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I’d say — “Expect a masterpiece.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">“ The master artist isn’t finished with you yet.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A celebration of color.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Emits a meditative sense of calm.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">A prism of light radiating hope.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Feel the window wash over me.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Let the intensity of the stained glass…</span><br />
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I’m relaxing on a luxurious bed in a semi-private room at the “It's Your Lucky Day Spa”.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">But my green tea addiction is a bit bizarre.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Some men find I’m a bit unusual… hah!</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I’ll never be a pixie captured in a jar.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">You gotta love my bird, Mike…
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<span style="color: black;">The proud Wazowski isn’t going anywhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Still interested? Please understand… </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Next week I might have pink or purple hair.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I like to shake things up – I’m a proud oddball.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">But it doesn’t make me an alien from Toy Story.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">So, if you think I’m not a catch… just keep swimming.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Cause the next time you see me, I might look like Dory.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Illuminating a rainbow of petals… </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">In the bed of an old work truck. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I stood there as if I were still nine.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Not moving an inch.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I suddenly felt…</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Like I had just inhaled…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">An exhilarating breath of fresh air.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Feathered fingers drip shadowy iridescent ink.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Far away from large raucous flocks.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Gone from an expansive field.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Missing from a city park.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I can almost hear their poetic caws…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Wafting with the wind…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Their cries being carried on their wings…</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">of their gloomy cloud.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Dreaming of the day they are loved.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Imagining their intelligence being noticed.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Longing for their language to be understood.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Do they hang out everywhere musing?</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Close by until the ink is dry and they're free,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;">It also </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px;">loves</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> oneself.</span></div>
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Yep, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px;">love</span></i> treats – you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px;">love</span></i> giving me treats.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";">Yes, they may be pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";">If it’s not enough – you will never see a single pear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";">poem for The Sunday Muse. Also for Poetry Pantry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">There was a time when I held onto insecurity – </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Tight as the bottom of the ocean holds onto wreckage. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Unable to try new things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Afraid of what someone might say – </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Or worse what they might think…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">And not say. I feared the eye roll.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Then there came a time when…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">I unclenched the lap bar – held my arms in the air.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Opened my eyes wide and looked forward.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Embraced the ups and downs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Mentally threw any eye rollers off the track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">And enjoyed the thrill of the ride.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Then there came a time not so long ago…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">When gravity started whizzing me down the track,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">A little faster it seemed – wind smacking me in the face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">However,</span> my gears <span style="margin: 0px;">are</span> still clicking and clanking. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">I’m still climbing – the excitement of the ride still
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Now, I can only hope…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">I continue to experience the thrill of life – in an exhilarating
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Until my ride comes to a stop.</span></div>
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