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The Heart of Christmas

Christmas tree and fairy lights Stocking hanging by the fire Burn more fuel as winter bites The logs piled ever higher. White Christmas playing on tv Garden white with snow Children play excitedly He will come tonight they know. Mummy can you please bake A cake as smooth as Silk Ice a picture of Rudolph on the cake Then fill a glass with milk. Perhaps a carrot for the reindeer Will give them the strength to pull the sleigh Do it quickly mummy dear Santa is on his way . At 5.0. clock next morning Children dash in through our bedroom door Parents given warning Of what this special day has in store. Yelling like a banshee The kids delight in every gift This is the heart of Christmas day for me The sight gives my heart a lift. Treasure every second and every memory Then the magic of Christmas will last eternally.

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Skat A

Date: 12/29/2015 5:34:00 PM

DARREN, Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups home page during the last week of 2015 and beginning of 2016 :) awesome way to start the year... Enjoy the coming Year.... SKAT

Suzanne Delaney

Date: 2/2/2014 3:16:00 PM

Christmas is for children and it also keeps the child in us alive. Pray we never lose our sense of wonder. So much depends on it. I love the way your mind works. SuZ PS my Uncle was a stonemason and he had a stone cottage in Charters Towers Qld. He cooked on an open fire. A real old bushman.

Darren Watson
Date: 2/3/2014 6:13:00 AM

Thank you I doubt the little boy will ever leave me nor would I want him to , I get such a kick out of the simple things in life . My dad gave me a passion for gardening , My mother a passion for cooking , So a simple bbq in the garden when its in full bloom is heaven for me. Your uncle and I would have been good friends .

Nette Onclaud

Date: 1/31/2014 10:48:00 AM

brings me back to my precious christmas a month ago... how magical this is!.. happy chinese new year!.. hugggs

Darren Watson
Date: 2/1/2014 9:25:00 AM

Many thanks . I feel a bit like Harry Potter now . lol

Cherl Dunn

Date: 1/30/2014 8:11:00 PM

Nice hoilday write here full of warmth and spirit of the season. cheri

Darren Watson
Date: 1/31/2014 12:41:00 AM

Thanks for the kind comments . I have no little ones of my own yet but I have some wonderful memories of life as a child .

Toquyen Harrell

Date: 1/30/2014 11:23:00 AM

I like it, Darren! May the spirit of Christmas last all year :)

Darren Watson
Date: 1/31/2014 12:38:00 AM

I suppose we had two kinds of Christmas in our house when I was a child . The one I've described gave my parents heart a lift I'm sure , Then later in the morning we'd be put in our Sunday best and taken to church, Dad always called that the soul of Christmas .