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The Zen of Writing's avatar

Beautiful! Merry Christmas!

man of aran's avatar

Merry Christmas to you, Cynthia!

Puma puma's avatar

Beautiful paint, beautiful poem.

Merry Christmas 😊

man of aran's avatar

Thanks so much, Puma!

KR (Kenneth Rosen)'s avatar

Alan, struggling because I can't view poem and write comment at same time. Trying to say how reading poem from penultimate line up, I think the line goes, A medley of bagpipe hymns--and makes sense with a surprising degree of dramatic assertion, mystery and fervor until you get to the top two lines, which you'd need to fiddle with, giving the steeple a halo of birds and stars. Absolutely loved prior photo or painting of that chaos of gulls, shadows and maybe crows. Carry on! Merry Christmas.

man of aran's avatar

Thanks for the reading, Kenneth. The last was a photo, glad you liked it!

KR (Kenneth Rosen)'s avatar

A was first letter of your name which got away from me!

Richbee's avatar

Doves 🕊️

☮️ peace

Suzi Blalock's avatar

A beautiful Christmas to you and yours, Alan.

Thank you for all your offerings.

man of aran's avatar

And to you and yours too, Suzi!

X. P. Callahan's avatar

Lovely, Alan. Merry Christmas!

man of aran's avatar

To you, too, X.P. belated! So glad you enjoyed.