Christmastime
...Christmastime is coming
Creeping as slow as clunky computers or considerable holiday traffic
Checking calendars compulsively, but no commensurate haste for the 25th date
Carollers' cheer will cir...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, longing, seasons,
Form: Pleiades
Festive Moments
...Time to tour the best Christmas-decorated places in town
With a map in hand of all the beautifully lit-up houses to be found
Despite the amount of time to set up and to take down the people have gi...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
The Carollers
...Candlelit tableau
My uncle and my aunts
Singing in the snow...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, family,
Form: Senryu
Christmas Is Creeping In
...Christmas is creeping in.
I’ve seen my first quality street tin.
The John Lewis advert is out
And the motorised reindeers about.
Shop windows glitter and glow,
Ladbrookes give odds on the ...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, together,
Form: Rhyme
Daisy the Red Nosed Cow
...This is the story of how Daisy the cow
Became one of Santa’s reindeer
Poor Rudolph was down with the flu
So Santa said “Daisy, come here”
“I’ll put a splash of red paint on your snout
And f...
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Categories:
carollers, children, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Mistletoe Kisses
...Fuzzy red mitts and old scarves for wraps
a carrot for my nose and two button eyes
Christmas carols, choclate drinks and naps
and a whole lot of home made mince pies
A little red wag...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Natures Call At Christmas- Contest
...all is calm this winters night
branches heavy with snow,
creating twinkling icy patterns
delighting the eye as we take in the show.
everywhere you look, natures decorations
fondle everything, a...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, nature,
Form: Abecedarian
Who Is Knocking At My Door
...’Twas about eight o’clock,
And I dreaded the knock,
The Carollers of pure light,
With such Christian might.
They were to be an example,
To my atheistically driven amble,
To encourage me ...
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Categories:
carollers, character, childhood, christmas, conflict,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Christmas Memories
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We walked through Whitleigh, early one winter evening,
many moons ago with the sounds of the Salvation Army Band:
a carol service near the shops and I asked if we could stop.
We joined the j...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas,
Form: Free verse
A Christmas Snow
...Quietly falls the pure whitened snow
Transforming all by lantern glow
Each roof, gate and meandering lane
Matchless beauty makes all the same
Muffled carollers by lamplight
Raise mello...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Bells From Heaven and the Carollers Singing
...People gather round, to hear the bells from heaven.
People gather round, to hear the carollers sing.
The sound in the air, was the bells from heaven.
The sound in the air, was the bells that rin...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, song,
Form: Ballade
A Christmas Carol
...It's such a joyous occasion
to hear carols sung
especially by carollers
as the Christmas bells are rung
The picture of snow showers
as the carols are sung out
brings such a lovely sight
your...
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Categories:
carollers, christmas, song, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme