Hello friends and poets,

For us up here in the north we are now in the darkest period of the year, and if you are more blessed with rain than with snow it seems like the few hours of daylight feels like dusk. This of course affects the mood and to keep the mood up we light candles to keep us in a decent mood while we wait for the holidays.

Now when the bar opens we have comfort food to bring you warmth, and to make room for food to come we keep it light and vegetarian. Advent used to be a time of lent and I like to keep it a little bit like that.

On the other hand this is a period here in Sweden when companies bring their employees and customers to “Christmas table” which is an oversized smörgårdbord (note the Swedish Spelling) with cold and warm dishes. It takes hours to eat and I think there is not one person who can have a taste of everything.

For our US writers I assume that the next week(s) will be filled with recipes made from leftovers.

This brings me to the optional miniprompt of today which is abundance. You may use it in any way you want it, you may reflect on lack of abundance, you may write about true abundance or you may use this painting of abundance

Musée Ingres-Bourdelle – L’Allégorie du goût – WIERIX Jérôme (graveur) , VOS Martin de (d’après)
If you don’t want to write to the mini-prompt you are welcome to link up any one of your poems at Mr Linky below. Then read and comment on other poems and if you feel up to listen and read your own poems we have a live session on Saturday December 6 at 10 AM New York Time,

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