Happy Holidays!
Covid 19 will keep us in
There won’t be family gatherings
Or the sounds of a merry din.
We will raise a little tree
Decorated with our favorite things.
We’ll deck the halls with greens
And our angels will spread their wings.
It really won’t seem like Christmas
Without all of our family here.
But we will still try and celebrate
And raise a glass of holiday cheer.
Christmas Eve we’ll light the candles
A taper for each family member!
Then the house will shine quite bright
In the midst of a cold December.
As we listen to the carols
And enjoy a small repast
We will pray the threat of Covid
Will be over soon, at last!
For this year of 2020
Will be one we won’t forget.
And we hope that 2021
Shall be the best year yet!
Nancy Perkins
Watercolors by Audrey Deveney
Retreat To Little River
Gerald George
Turn the news off! Nerves keep screaming “stop!”
I beg an hour away in a place that’s safe.
Little River, I take my quest to you:
speak to me of unprecedented peace.
You trickle to the agitated bay,
but the rest lies quietly behind a dam,
making a spacious pond of gentle water,
its surface broken only by skips of wind.
You lie so still as if the nodding trees
that green your shoreline wave the world away
and make me feel relieved. O would that you
could do that now, and for more lives than mine.
Gerald George is a former winner of a poetry prize from the Maine Senior College Network, has published two books of poetry, and authored a play produced in the 2008 Maine Short-Play Festival. He and his wife Carol are retired in Belfast, and, before the covid virus, regularly attended classes in the Belfast Senior College. May that day come again!
Watercolors by Audrey Deveney
The Two Wisemen and One Wise Woman!