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    A Christmas Posy: haiku & senryu
    A Christmas Posy: haiku & senryu
    A Christmas Posy: haiku & senryu
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    A Christmas Posy: haiku & senryu

    By Judith E.P. Johnson

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    'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However, there may be another aspect to Christmas. Another Christmas story would be in the

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateSep 16, 2023
    ISBN9781761096044
    A Christmas Posy: haiku & senryu

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