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- It's Christmas Again -

   Christmas is just around the corner
   convulsions in the stomach region
   Poor elves who create all the toys
   and Santa takes the credit

   Squeezing me into the bus
   to the nearest shopping mall
   Puts the body into fight or flight mode
   Burn some money
   Christmas music in the background
   Speakers spewing out the traditional carols
   over and over again

   My brother needs a padlock
   Wrapped in white soft toilet paper
   Christmas offering:
   An electric nose hair trimmer
   ... embarrassing
   Symbolic gifts
   The goal is not to be entertaining,
   but the demand is rising

   Christmas stress reaches undiscovered heights
   Hormones flood the bloodstream
   Writhes on the floor with stomach aches
   interprets the pain positively
   Hear the angels sing messages of peace
   with charisma and glimmers in the eyes
   December is full of forced cuddling

   The stockings are hanging by the fireplace
   Chaos with festive cheer
   Merry Christmas

Copyright © Anne-Lise Andresen | Year Posted 2024

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Constance La France Date: 12/24/2024 1:43:00 PM Anne-Lise, congratulations on your win in my Christmas Poem Contest. Your poem is wonderfully penned, I loved it and your image, well done, Merry Christmas, Constance Login to Reply

Duke Beaufort Date: 12/17/2024 7:50:00 AM Anne-Lise, you describe the competing interests with such skill and flair. It's not easy to make sense out of it all, and you give us a lot to think about. Hope Christmas shopping and your experience of the holiday all goes well. It's almost over, but then it will all start anew a bit earlier than expected next year. Smiles!! Login to Reply

Len Gasun Date: 12/15/2024 7:34:00 AM A fantastic Christmas poem my dear poet friend Anne. Congratulations on your win and this wonderful write! I enjoyed a lot. Merry Christmas to you and your family! God bless. Hugs Login to Reply

Valsa George Date: 12/14/2024 9:34:00 PM Christmas is undoubtedly a time of cheer. But it also brings in its wake some tensions of making elaborate preparations and tedious shopping. Congratulations on your great win, dear Anne. love and hugs. Login to Reply

Beata Agustin Date: 12/14/2024 3:50:00 AM Congrats! Merry Christmas to you and your family. God bless you. Login to Reply

thriveni c mysore Date: 12/13/2024 9:15:00 PM truths are as barbed as you say dear poet. 'forced cuddling' -even the leaders of nations do.. I appreciate the tone of your verse dear poet. Congratulations on your win. Happy Christmas, Cheers (true hugs from a fan poet friend) Login to Reply

Sotto Poet Date: 12/13/2024 2:51:00 PM Very charming poem with a lot of surprises and deep metaphors, congratulations on your contest win. And happy holidays Login to Reply

Tom Cunningham Date: 12/13/2024 12:36:00 PM I love Christmas but not all the razza matazz that is thrust in your face. 24/7. Won't be long before chocolate eggs are in the shops lol. Congratulations on your placement Anne Lise. If you've got any spare snow, send it over. Tom Login to Reply

Jay Narain Date: 12/13/2024 10:18:00 AM Being an old man, I only follow the commercial part of the Christmas holidays. My young grandkids love the gifts, that makes me very happy. Login to Reply Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 12/13/2024 11:33:00 AM - It is simply magical when children's eyes shine with Christmas joy, Jay :) - hugs

Jennifer Proxenos Date: 12/13/2024 5:47:00 AM Christmas has become so commercialized and yet I feel I am on the guilty list, but only for family make notes of what they like or need during the year,oh, and of couse my haidresser and her apprentice, the neighbor, our domestic helper, the gardener, but my litte darling grand-daughter at two years old, loves books,so thats easy. Love Christmas, the obvious faith in the meaning of the word, but also the glitter. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer. PS i enjoyed your poem my friend, good luck in the contest. Login to Reply Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 12/13/2024 5:59:00 AM - We have stopped buying gifts for the adults (over 18 years old) ... my husband and I don't get any gifts for Christmas ... and that's totally fine - I will buy one gift this year ... she is the youngest in the family (13 years old) - hugs

John Read Date: 12/13/2024 5:45:00 AM Hi Anne, Christmas is big business now days, in the UK it starts in October, the true meaning is long forgotten. xx Login to Reply Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 12/13/2024 5:53:00 AM - A high-volume selling season around the world, John... while many starve and die ... :( - hugs

Jan Allison Date: 12/12/2024 4:23:00 PM i'm sick of it all Anne-lise - your lines about the useless gifts made me giggle - crap crap and more crap gadgets and gizmo's bur folk feel compelled to buy it. mince pies in the shops since august with a sell by date of October - it gets earlier and earlier each year:-( Bah humbug! hugs Jan xx Login to Reply Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 12/13/2024 2:15:00 AM - When Christmas starts as early as they do in the stores, you're pretty bored with the whole Christmas thing when it comes, Jan :) - hugs

Tom Cunningham Date: 12/12/2024 12:20:00 PM Christmas is certainly not what it used to be Anne-Lise, many now dread it, we've had it on the TV and in the shops since October. Money. Money money is what it's all about now. Good luck in the contest. Tom Login to Reply Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 12/13/2024 2:13:00 AM - Yes, Christmas comes in September/October every year - Stores should wait until December 1st with Christmas - hugs