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December 2025
It's all "Ding Dong Merrily on High" round here at the
moment, at least it would be if I could get these Christmas lights
untangled..
It's Hanukkah too of course so there's a lot going on and
I wish you all a happy time with family and/or friends. We need a bit of good
cheer don't we?
To that end we have here the Christmas edition of Winamop.
Thanks to those who have delivered material with a seasonal theme, it's very
much appreciated.
Before we start Gary Beck tells me he has a new book out
called "Rigors". It's available via Amazon of course.
So grab a glass of mulled wine (no thanks!) and let's get
into it.
Michael
Smith gets us off to a Christmassy start with this story of a
difficult day for Santa who is getting tied up in bureaucracy. It's calledl:
Access Denied..
D.A. appears on the site on odd
occasions (usually at Christmas) and this is one of his festive tales. It's
called: The Cake. There's nothing like a nice cake to cheer you
up is there?.
Donal Mahoney was a great supporter
of the site and is sadly missed. We revisit one of his Christmas stories. It's
called A Not-Too-Jolly Santa Claus..
Tony
Dawson recalls a time spent less than fruitfully. He could have been
doing a jigsaw!. It's called The Vase..
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art for Christmas called Ho Ho Ho. It's on his art page
along with all his other pictures too.
Rachel Turney is a photographer,
amongst her other talents, and here she has captured a wintry scene. It's
called Before The Storm. On the page you will also find some
writing prompts for holiday inspiration. I'm expecting great things!
KJ Hannah Greenberg brings us some
photographs of mountainous scenes, mostly in the Italian Alps except for
"Morning Has Broken" which was taken in Israel.
Richard
LeDue has gone for a Christmas theme but maybe not with the jollity
we might have expected.. The poems are: My 44th Christmas - Another
Christmas Poem and Our Practiced Smiles.
Allison
Grayhurst hasn't been on Winamop since early last year but she's
back now with a most impressive collection of seven new poems. They are:
Star - Slowly the builder builds - Molasses-dream - Lift - Hubris - Milky
Way and Ghost.
Terry
Brinkman has been busy again, although his whales are sleepy. The
poems are: Sleepy Whale 300, 301,302,303 & 304 - Sonnet CLXXXII -
Sleepy Whale 240 - WAITING - Get off the Beaten Path and
Sweetwater. Ten again!
Diane
Webster returns with some new poems, some of which are on wintry
subjects. They are Collapse - Forsaken - Fall Shroud - Frozen Across
and Listening.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg has a couple of poems on the state of the world and one on
a more optimistic note. The titles are: Hauteur - Incommodate and
True Happiness Comes from Inside.
Tony
Dawson is old. He reflects on the subject in this amusing poem
called Better than the Alternative?
That's all for 2025. I had wondered how long an
old-fashioned "E-zine" could exist in the modern on-line environment but here
we are still going strong thanks to the efforts of our many contributors old
and new. Thank you and have a very happy holiday!
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Ding dong!
Ed.
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