Old and new

Midnight, at

Exactly 12 o’clock,

Eighteen turns nineteen –

Time to take stock.

Tastes

Shoveling spoonfuls of ice

Cream

Or sorbet, the server

Often consumed an hour’s worth of

Pay.

Family

Guess whose birthday we

Remember – such

A dear – born in December?

Now her little ones

Number seven,

In

Essence, Annie’s slice of heaven.

Happy Birthday, dear OLDER sister Annie G.!!! 💗

Essential

Flowers

Render life

Aromatic,

Guiding birds and bees; they’re such

Romantics!

Are you

Noticing something sweet?

Candles? Lotion?

Even feet?

With many thanks to Rose A., Emma G., and Hannah P. for inspiring this acrostic with their gifts.

Bird of happiness

Crying hoarsely, this

Rangy bird gracefully flies

And its mystical

Nature brings hope in

Events we can’t defy.

Oh, shoot!

Many glass

And agate spheres

Roll in colorful

Battle; those who

Lose theirs might

Emit tears and about their

Swirlies prattle.

Thanks for the inspiration, Rose A. and Emma G.!

Comfort and joy

Step softly and

Luxuriously

In this apparel for

Pampered feet; such

Plush

Embrace

Relaxes one – a gift that’s truly

Sweet.

Thank you for the inspiration, Tina H. and Jon and Michelle P., you wonderful slipper-givers.

Hark!

Can you hear those

Awesome bells? The songs they

Render we all know well.

In this season of

Love and peace,

Let your sense

Of compassion increase. Sing we all

Noël.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIDBAXMRzLE

Killjoy

Sliding, gliding on

Long runners, the

Era of this ride

Is mostly past. Now there’s also

Global warming; the needed snow would

Hardly last.

"Racy" verse

Upside down tipped

Pierpont’s

Sleigh; the lean,

Overworked horse

Tossed his head and cried, “Neigh!”

Inspired by our school December 21^st sing-along of “Jingle Bells.”

Happy winter...

Solstice, you first winter’s day

Have the fewest hours

Of sunny

Rays and

This year you’re

Especially bright with a full moon and

Shooting stars

Tonight.

Temperate North Pole

Doused thoroughly with

Rain, the

Elves

Nimbly

Continued to

Help  

Evacuate people from a

Downed plane.

The pilot had enjoyed too much Christmas cheer before taking off. His near collision with Santa just south of the North Pole occurred approximately 24 minutes after midnight. The Elves declined to be interviewed.

Pedestrian

Foundational to

One’s ability to stroll, two

Of

These is better for control.

"Word of the Year 2018"

The predictably poisonous attitude

Of this

Xenophobic administration

Is obviously not one of

Compassion or gratitude.

Exploration

Quests to

Understand

Existence

Start

Truly with an

Innate persistence

Of curiosity; it’s a burning

Need to ask, to know, to

See.

Defense failed

Ferocious winds beat this

Enclosure; the posts were

Not deeply set. Now the

Crew is fixing that. It’ll be

Ever so stronger. You bet!

Syrup

Much of this liquid

Amber treat saturates

Pancakes making them sweet.

Lick your plate. There’s no more to

Eat.

Power

Oh, you beautiful
Utility
That makes our life so bright
And makes us so much more
Grateful when you return,
Especially at night.

And I am so grateful to my housemates for making this situation less worrisome. Thank goodness, too, for cellphone service that enabled me to post my acrostic and not break my streak of 1737 daily poems.

Ice crystals

Flat, fragile, feather-

Light bits

Are a wintry kind we

Know; they clump together

Especially in cold weather as

Something we call snow.

Economics

Citing

An old clause, the

Very wary, but merry

Elf warned

All the others of

Their labors’ true cause.

1600

Such a

House,

A

Mismanaged mess

Begs to be

Organized, but there’s

Little stress on

Intelligence; it’s unbridled

Chaos. No less.

"Where's my...?"

Finding is

One thing,

Searching, another;

Serious rummaging

Is the

Can-do

Key, say our mothers.

Memorable memos

Reducing the message by

Editing out lines means,

Dear Reader, you must divine

A sense of what will

Come up next; this truly is

Tantalizing text.

Colorful light

Performing an act of

Refraction, this sawn

Instrument was

Seen as a

Magical attraction.

Levity

Mixtures

Of miscellaneous

Textures and hues

Lend lightness to

Elevate you out of

Your blues.

With many thanks to all my Ohio textile artist friends.

Between extremes

Graded either warm or cool, it

Radiates

A calm with hints of

Yellow or blue.

Changing the rules

Surely

People can see their

Itch to win only

Turns everything back; on

Every

Front they deepen the crack,

Using their office to

Leverage divisiveness.

Shame on Scott Walker and cronies!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/wisconsin-legislature-power/index.html

Shelving the nightmare

Early on, in ancient lore, these

Little folk were deemed

Fiendish, but not anymore.

Inquire

A voiced desire or

Search for answers is key for many

Kinds of advancers.

Sage advice

Wise and wily

Is this being, from

Zephyr soft to

Ardent blast; one must always be

Respectful –

Dare not scorn lessons of the past.

Children's happy dance

Cavorting

About, they

Prance and shout;

Elation is clear. Their

Response is dear.

Coagulated soymilk

This blubbery curd

Of

Fermented beans is often

Used as a source of protein.

745 K of them

An

S-, M-, or C-

Type

Elemental

Rock

Orbits the

Inner belt.

Do take stock.

International Asteroid Day is June 30.

An I

Everybody’s

Got

One.

Bon mot

Playful wording that’s

Used in jest

Nourishes readers; they

Swallow it best.

For Mr. P’s class at Roosevelt Elementary.

Bumbershoot

Under a

Moist and murky sky, colorful

Bursts repel the

Rain and those who carry them

Enjoy a dry and sometimes a lovely,

Leisurely stroll, until a gust

Lifts them

Away and folks are

Soaked the rest of the day.

Archosaurs

Beginning as a feathered dinosaur,

Its cousin is the crocodile; a

Reconstructed genome shows this

Discovery in

Scientific style.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2014/12/crocodile-genomes.html

We can decide

Almond-shaped, this

Mechanism of

Yours and mine

Gets quite a workout in

Dire times; what if we could

All agree to

Live more

Above, in the PFC?

Crowning touch

Hats and

Ethnic kinds of wear

Are often

Decorative,

Denoting ceremonial

Rites; they poignantly

Express traditions,

Symbolizing beauty,

Strength, and pride.