Christmas Quiet

a quiet christmas

we expect this year..

travelers not arriving

just the holiday..

season shouts elsewhere..

a red poinsettia 

will be sufficient tree..

a seeming culmination

of early bells

an annual football

a brown dog

cats and icicles.. 

city lights and coastline

from a mountaintop.. 

excitement on those mornings

ribbons fleeting use..

these few memories

fill our quiet now..

but in reflection 

this quiet has not

only now occurred..

with gratitude we see

our treasured

 christmas quiet has 

through many years

endured...