DECEMBER 13, 2011 

Meeting at Dayle's

Book: Beside a Burning Sea

We had a great potluck dinner for our meeting.

 Tuna sashimi, just like they ate in the book! (Well, maybe a few extra goodies . . .)

 And yummy appetisers before the Indonesian chicken skewers with peanut sauce and rice -wow!

After dinner, we discussed the book, which featured Haiku poetry. Sarah gave us an assignment to write our own Haiku, and here are the results:

The crisp cold clear night

Gives way to the spicy joyful warmth

Of the blessed holiday gathering.

Slow in the morning

Coldness, darkness makes me late

Frost on the windshield.

Icicle lights on

Only so many hours

Guarantee runs out

Before language counts

- no, I wanna 'lectric train

fine-ly four years old.

Cold day, nights so long

Kan arrives with storm and squall

Rose blooms forever.

Still in its coldness

Day awakens softly

and I am thoughtful.

Without the sun shining

coldness moves within and without

to carry us to spring.

Golden leaves glowing

full moon shadows under trees

owls huddled in cold