All I Want for Christmas is You

Good Christmases never come with chipped teacups.
Good Christmases don't kick,  
                                   bite,                                                                                                                                                                     
                                   suck,
                                   tease,                                                                                         
                                   wheeze, 
                                   pain,                                                                                       
                                   complain, 
but pack woolies for chilly bodies, familiar carols tickle hearts.                                                                                                                        
Good Christmases present gifts under a tree, lit and tinseled and capped. 
                                                                                                                
                                                  ~

Better Christmases have prized porcelain.  
Better Christmases are toasted by chalices porting posh pink wines.   
Better Christmases, jumbo stockings fill so carelessly, each could be a single Santa sack.   

                                                  ~

Best Christmases require us two for steaming chocolate.   
Best Christmases outlast seasonal cadences - when Spring fires back and snows arrest, you and I’ll be swaying in Summer, fiddling leaves around Fall.   
Best Christmases, we share like flirty diplomats talking in turns,  
                                                                                between laughter,  
                                                                                through gazes;  
                                                                                in narrow words,  
                                                                                immense phrases,  
                                                                                sincerely hopeful,  
all together.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2024



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Date: 9/8/2025 11:41:00 AM
Congrats on being on homepage today. I like this one. Way to go. Sara K
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Date: 9/9/2025 8:19:00 PM
Thanks, Sara. I try to keep abreast of site activity as much as possible. I appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts on this one. It put me in the Christmas mood rereading it. Blessings!
Date: 4/4/2025 11:18:00 AM
Don't get the no comments, this poem wrapped me in its feel and I felt so warm, toasty-happy by the end. Have you figured out yet that you have to read in order to get read? It is how it 'works' because this sight is filled with people, egos and attitudes not souls of perfection. Acceptance issue. CayCay
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