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An Advent Calendar Of Love

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By Mike Singleton ๐Ÿ’œ Mikeydred Published 2 years ago โ€ข Updated about a year ago โ€ข 2 min read
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Introduction

We have an Advent Calendar and we open a door each day together. I decided to take this concept into a poem. Advent Calendars have a varying number of days but I have decided to do twenty-five.

For this, I have created a structure of an opening couplet, five cinquains to open the doors and a closing couplet.

Also for the door numbers I want to use the words for Polly Jean Harvey's "Orlam" as far as I can and the rest as Gaelic numbers, the review of how it continues to inspire is after the poem. Note "Fiche" is pronounced as two syllables (fih-ha) . I may get some of the Gaelic syllables wrong but it should work overall.

I hope you like this.

The music I have chosen is The Housemartin's beautiful "Caravan Of Love" because Caravan sounds a bit like a calendar.

Our Calendar Of Love

โ„๏ธ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’๐ŸŒปโ„๏ธ

Today We Open Our First Door Of Love

Together We'll Explore Our Treasure Trove

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

Oone Is Your Smile That I See Every Day

A Dรณ Is Your Sweet Heart That You Share With Me

Dree Is The Time That We Give And Enjoy

Vower Is Your Laughter That I Always Love To Hear

Vive Is Your Touch That Makes Me So Happy

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

A Sรฉ Is The Thought Of You Each Morning

A Seacht Is To Always Hold You Closely

Aight Is The Softness Of Your Lovely Skin

A Naoi Is How Much Care You Give For Free

A Deich Is Your Heart That Is So Charming

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

Elebm Is Your Creative Talent

A Dรณ Dhรฉag Is Your Love Of All Nature

A Trรญ Dรฉag Is Your True Intelligence

A Ceathair Is How You Care For Creatures

A Cรบig Cรฉag Is How We Share Our Heaven

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

A Sรฉ Dรฉag Is Our Door To Our True Love

A Seacht Dรฉag Is The Happiness You Bring

A Hocht Dรฉag Is Our Bright Blue Sky Above

A Naoi Dรฉag Is Your Rose Gold Star Shining

Fiche Is The Door To The Way For Us

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

Fiche Oone Is Your Door Into My Art

Fiche A Dรณ Is My Door To Yours Too

Fiche Dree Is To Say We'll Never Part

Fiche Vower Is To Say "I Love You"

Fiche Vive Is When I Give You My Heart

๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’

Every Day So Very Special To Us

I'm Yours Forever My Beautiful Love

โ„๏ธ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ’โ™Ž๐Ÿ’œโ™‰๐Ÿ’๐ŸŒปโ„๏ธ

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  • Call Me Lesabout a year ago

    Love it ๐Ÿฅฐ

  • You certainly can count on one another! Lovely.

  • Grz Colm2 years ago

    Very creative!

  • Nice!! The music video is not available on my end. Otherwise, it is great!๐Ÿ’–

  • Oooo, I really loved the numbers! Such a wonderful poem!

  • Daphsam2 years ago

    Wow, this is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

  • Well done!

  • Babs Iverson2 years ago

    Brilliantly expressed!! Loving it!!!๐Ÿ’•โค๏ธโค๏ธ

  • Cathy holmes2 years ago

    This is wonderful. Well done.

  • Mother Combs2 years ago

    beautiful

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