What Is Christmas

What Is Christmas by Robert Allison Dec. 1986 Christmas is the time When the jingle bells rhyme. Boys say Christmas is fun When they get a new toy gun. ** Girls say Christmas is a ball, When they get a brand new doll. ** Boys and girls say "Yay" To a fun ride in a sleigh. Most teens would love a new computer, And most women would love figurines made of pewter. Now don't forget the dad's Cause they love the latest fads. Well all this makes a Christmas nice, But when going to a party - don't slip on the ice! Author's Note : This poem was the very first one that I created during my senior year at high school, before Christmas break. It was a private (Christian) school and our English teacher asked us to write a couple paragraphs (or a poem) about what Christmas meant to us. I didn't know whether to write about the worldly side or the religious side of Christmas, and I had never wrote a poem before. By the time class was over with, I had created the short poem above. ** In the original version - I had substituted "new toy gun" with "Rambo gun", and also substituted "brand new doll" with "Barbie doll". These two brand names were the current "craze" but I later substituted the words - due to all the lawsuits over copyright infringement at that time. Anyways, enough rambling from me. Hope you enjoyed !