Holiday Rain
...Traffic is slow.
In the drizzle
the holiday crowd complain and grizzle.
Magpies and currawongs are carolling.
The morning is silvery now.
A heavy sky bends down,
dropping diamonds
wetly o...
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Categories:
carolling, rain,
Form: Personification
ITs AN OLD FASHIONED
...It’s an old-fashioned
Bell - a silver-tingling, it’s a-ringing
The choir’s singing
Their wrists a-swinging, up and down
It’s an old-fashioned
Carriage ride, abiding on the crunchy ...
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Categories:
carolling, christmas,
Form: Verse
Stormgate
...Winds of change
are fanning the flames
are fanned by the deranged.
The flames of misdirection,
the winds giving chase
(orchestrated by instruments to enrage.
Horned cheering section.)
D...
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Categories:
carolling, abortion, america,
Form: Rhyme
Holiday Branch
...A branch awaits the carolling.
The choir, each limb afire with song.
The cold and bare kindled with snow.
A branch awaits.
A branch awaits the spring of feet -
the twang of movement, soft o...
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Categories:
carolling, bird, christmas,
Form: Verse
Notes of Life
..."In my fragile little ship, I sail, sail
In the tempestuous sea of life
Dodging life's pressures, to doldrums outlast"~ by poet
Breathing in and out the notes of life,
from first cry to last s...
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Categories:
carolling, life,
Form: Free verse
Magpie Carolling
...magpie 'tibicen'
you are indeed a 'flutist'-
your warbling delights...
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Categories:
carolling, bird,
Form: Haiku
Manglish Carol
...MANGLISH CAROL *
(Christmas in Malaysia)
Now got season to be jolly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Where got snow and where got holly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Where got slay bells jangle jingle...
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Categories:
carolling, christmas, humor,
Form: Lyric
Australaian Magpies
...AUSTRALIAN MAGPIES
I woke to a cheerful sound at dawning
As warbling of three magpies greet my day.
They're sitting on tree branches this morning
And warble though the skies have turned to gr...
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Categories:
carolling, bird,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas Without a Tree
...No carolling minstrels
No sparkles or tinsel.
The Grinch has a lot of good points.
Just, “how bloody awful
To not have some baubles.”
Bah! Scrooge would be proud of this joint.
My carols ar...
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Categories:
carolling, bereavement, christmas, tree,
Form: Rhyme
A Memorable Night
...It was an EVEning to remAMBER for Jane,
WEN DA men gathered in the GLEN,
OL I VER there were Taylor's friends uNOAHn
So, she was STEPH AN' FREDDYn' alone
Then HER MAN, Taylor, called out
In an ...
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Categories:
carolling, fun, word play,
Form: Narrative
An Epiphany
...In search of the vows to honour
when destiny takes me into tomorrow,
Perhaps, God has chosen that ultimate hour,
for angels to take up my spirit and follow.
Former life defines the new cons...
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Categories:
carolling, allusion, baptism, blessing, death,
Form: Free verse
Do You Hear What I Hear, Question Mark
...The carol singers at my door,
I greeted them with tone deaf song,
My hand outstretched, they shuffled off:
I didn’t get a quid – what’s wrong?
Do you hear what I hear? For Kim’s Carolling contest...
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Categories:
carolling, holiday,
Form: Quatrain
70s Kids
...our young faces
left sepia stains
on ivory paper
there were no flaws nor lines to draw
attention nor depress
just shiney rose hued cheeks which glowed
and purple garish dress
eyes did glint
though ...
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Categories:
carolling, nostalgia,
Form: Imagism
Are You Ready For Christmas?
...Are you ready for Christmas~have you lifted the tree
Are your lights through Christ shining bright~for everybody to see
(everybody should see)
Your good deeds and your gifts of love~that you...
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Categories:
carolling, faith, seasons, song-
Form: Ballad
X-Mas Fragrance.
...Colors of roses,
Bliss of cherries.
The carolling bells,
Smiling candles.
Herd heroes excited,
Sombre flowers lighted!
Snow angels flying,
Silky stars shaking!
Heavenl...
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Categories:
carolling, devotion, love, nature,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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