Christmas Appreciation Poems

MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980

The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane,...

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Take me to where the wildflowers grow and show me where to go, take me to where the wildflowers grow and wet my soul with...

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Take the plunge..As I have before, try your friends..
Just to be sure.' Give them truth..Support' some trust
Then wait and see.' Expecting no love, or hate..that...

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I come home to great works of literature submerged in water
Knee deep
Dizzee Rascal at the Bull Ring
The question is posed to my landlady
Why Jesus?
The books...

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Blackened. Charred.
Are the blossoms of autumn's acclaimed abundance
No longer dance they in vivid wonderance,
Singed by the frigid frost,
Stand they forlorn and lost.

Barren. Desolate.
Stand the trees.
Marooned...

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Speaking in whispers
no one cares
within the crying
a serenade is played

Secrets not shared
Winter is early this year

Snow on the ground
it looks like Christmas is all year...

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May you get to spend time alone,
But never get to be lonesome.

May you never get so drunk,
You find yourself sitting on a shelf with an...

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As summer duly ends
thoughts of fun-filled leisure
still linger in my heart
laughter, joy, fellowship
one longs for at the start

As summer duly ends
the playful child within
dwells on...

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the small tree how much 
a buck~here's a buck I will
pick it up next year


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A stuffy nose at Christmas,
an annoying New Year's cough.
Are nothing but a harbinger
of laughing illness off.

Do not submit to sickness,
but joke at it instead.
If illness...

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Lord show us the way
That we can best celebrate your day,
Should it be fun
For all of us to feel as one?
Or should we be sad
Knowing...

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I can still feel autumn lingering in the clouds and the birds are flying restlessly about, the leaves are still hanging on the tree holding...

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Joe Bonamassa can play the strings
He is a master of the guitar
and when Christmas time comes...
he boogie woogies with the tunes
You can dance with the...

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In Bethlehem's manger, a humble abode, 
A savior was born, the son of our God.
No sleigh bells, no reindeer, just a star shining bright, 
Guiding...

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When Christmas comes around,
And I am still above ground,
With the prospect of seeing in another year,
Wearing the presents I got this year,
I ask myself given...

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