December 21 Ethical ELA Holidays and Love are Messy

This morning's Ethical ELA asked us to write haikus (5-7-5 syllable poems). I came downstairs and put the lights on my newly decorated tree and noticed the needles still waiting the vacuum. If you look carefully, you will also see half the lights on my tree do not work. Fortunately, there are too many decorations and all that led to my poem about holidays, which in my opinion, are not about perfection.

Nude gingerbread rest
Beside a tiny, stuffed tree 
Memories, treasures.

Flour mimics snow

While shepherds appreciate

Battery bright trees.

While flour, sugar, 
Mix in a rusty relic,

Can we decorate?

Hot tea, warm cookies

I sit amongst the needles,

The love, mess, linger.

I am full of peace,

Reminded that holidays 

And love, are messy.