Get Your Premium Membership

Best Over By Christmas Poems

Below are the all-time best Over By Christmas poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of over by christmas poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Soup Bowl Full of Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all thru the Soup bowl,
Not a poet was writing, not even the musing mole.
All their pens were hung by...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, christmas, family, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Hush of Christmas Past
Can you recall the hush of Christmas past?
Think back to when you were a little child,
excited Santa Claus would come at last,
too young to even...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, child, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Perfect Christmas Tree
We ventured out into the woods one day
Trying to find the perfect Christmas tree
A beautiful fir all will want to come and see
Planning to cut...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, beauty, bird, christmas,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Eve
CHRISTMAS EVE

He lay abed
That most tranquil of nights
Aghast at moon and stars
Dad had painted for his delight

In one charmed corner
A spider was swinging
From his thready...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, anti bullying, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -
The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member It Came Upon a Prophecy
May be sung to the tune of  It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

It came upon a prophecy
   in ancient days foretold
that to...

Read more of this work...
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over by christmas, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses
'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
  Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
  The Grinch...

Read more of this work...
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over by christmas, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

Read more of this work...
© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over by christmas, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Invitation
December 25th-  The Christmas Wedding

Head-to-head,
Surrounded by seasonal silver bells
Scarlet passionate pink poinsettias sit
Foliage scenery 
Entwined by Christmas and Wedding bliss
Frosty winter weather warmed up...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, anger, celebration, christmas, december,
Form: Epic
Lady On the Church Steps
I had seen her before in the spring and summer
The homeless lady sitting on the church steps
She would ask for help from people going into...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, appreciation, christmas, december, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Lottery Winner Helps Homeless
As I walked into the banquet hall of the 
 Goodman’s Inn, the first thing that stood
 out to me were the eyes of the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, care, celebration, christmas, giving,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member frozen farewell -
your breath upon the window freezes lace
        yet warm against my cheek, its somber strains
   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

Read more of this work...
Categories: over by christmas, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs