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Advent: Saturday, December 24 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Gifts #Tree #Love #Christ

24 Dec 2022

Advent: December 24 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 We have set our gifts around the base of the tree – small tokens of love waiting dawn’s unwrapping of the Desire of Nations.

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Advent: Friday, December 23 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Journey #Hope #Together #Cold #Winter

23 Dec 2022

Advent: December 23 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Together we braved the cold – winter’s winds whipping your hair and my beard, our errand an echo of their journey pregnant with Hope.

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Advent: Thursday, December 22 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #AChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #Wealth #Home

22 Dec 2022

Advent: December 22 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 This Ebenezer raised by the Holy Spirit turns our fickle hearts back to hearth, to health, to home – Life’s intangible riches!

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Advent: Wednesday, December 21 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #IrvingBerlin #WhiteChristmas #Caesar

21 Dec 2022

Advent: December 21 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Our white Christmas dreams, the gift of Irving Berlin, suddenly seem small in light of the earnest prayers of slaves to modern Caesars.

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Advent: Tuesday, December 20 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Rest #Magi #Traffic

20 Dec 2022

Advent: December 20 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Bumper to bumper, the traffic inches forward; evening’s stars emerge. Crossing this urban desert, I, too, seek the source of Rest.

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Advent: Monday, December 19 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Dragon #Revelation

19 Dec 2022

Advent: December 19 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 No red dragon jaws could devour the child-king, silence the war-cry that commands angelic hosts even from a manger bed.

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Advent: Sunday, December 18 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Voice #Animals #Adoration

18 Dec 2022

Advent: December 18 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 In the infant’s cry echoes the voice that spoke light, split the earth and sea, and sang us into being. How could we not bend down low?

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Advent: Saturday, December 17 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Joseph #Carpenter #Honor

17 Dec 2022

Advent: December 17 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 There comes a time when reputation and honor no longer matter and all that is most sacred exists in obedience.

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Advent: Friday, December 16 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Light #Magi #Stars

16 Dec 2022

Advent: December 16 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 I wouldn’t exchange this gift – this invitation – led by living light to The Light, for all the stars in their jealous multitude.

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Advent: Thursday, December 15 #Advent #Tanka #Poem #Poetry #Christmas #Birth #Death #Resurrection #Peace

15 Dec 2022

Advent: December 15 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Peaceful sweeping still the calm come in labor’s wake before transition the painful pressing of life towards death, then — resurrection!

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