err thrabs

as swans win awa

...stoorin cluds

air throbs

as swans leave

...racing clouds

aince mair

Yule lowes i the herth

...poinsettia

again Christmas

flames in the hearth

...poinsettia.

friday clavers

roon the fush-van

...apen-mou'd mackrel

friday gossip

round the fish-van

...open-mouthed mackrel

anely hersel

an the Yule cactus  -

lanely covid blues

only herself

and the Christmas cactus  -

lonely covid blues

i the gairden

maggies line the palin  

...boogie--woogie pianny

in the garden

magpies line the fence  

...boogie-woogie piano

 pumpkin foondert

anely the caunle left

...tae licht anither

pumpkin slumped

only the candle left

...to light another