Christmas Blessings 2025

almost Christmas
through the evergreens
clear blue sky

Christmas Blessings 2024

A doration and
D evotion
V ision of
E ternity
N ow in
T ime

ADVENT

holiness
and humility
Christmas

cold country night
two deer in the front yard
graze in starlight

placing the new calendar
on the wall
all the new spaces
without words
God’s time

Quiet Christmas Poetry may be purchased from Time of Singing poetry journal.

We began Quiet Christmas Poetry in November 2013. The poems became a large print chapbook. This post reprints a few poems.

sudden cold —
Christmas cactus
already blooming

Time Of Singing
December, 1997

S ilence
E nlivens
A nd
S olitude
O pens
N ew thoughts

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven . . .
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 (KJV)

Northern sun
shines on frozen beach
still the days grow shorter
shadow of poinsettia
on the wall

Poems by Ellen and Cover Art Photo by Karl
Elin Grace Publishing 2014
Oostburg, Wisconsin

And the Word
was made flesh,
and dwelt among us . . .
full of grace
and truth.
From John 1: 14 (KJV)

Poetry · Tanka

placing the new calendar
on the wall
all the new spaces
without words
God’s time

And the Word
was made flesh,
and dwelt among us . . .
full of grace
and truth.

From John 1:14 (KJV)

Haiku · Poetry

looking at trees
I remember prayers
of friends