Celebrating Christmas Without Going Broke
By Christmas Day each father
and mother, also known as Santa and Mrs. Claus,
should have fulfilled “Dear Santa” letters
and other wish lists. They overspend, but for a great cause!
Expensive foods, grandiose home improvements,
and decorations are added. Guests will be so impressed.
Bank balances shrink; credit cards get maxed out,
but—By George!—mom, dad, and kids will be well dressed.
Money’s
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Categories:
celebrating, celebration, christmas, money,
Form: Rhyme
MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND POW AND I CELEBRATING 9 YEARS OF MARRAIGE
MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND A POW HE AND I ARE CELEBRATING OUR 9TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY WE WERE GOING TO GET MARRIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY BUT DECIDED JULY 8TH 2016 POLK COUNTY WHERE WE SPENT SO MANY YEARS VOLUNTEERING IN OUR CHURCH MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SPECIAL OLYMPICS ROTC SUN N FUN AEROSPACE
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Categories:
celebrating, allah,
Form: Naat
Celebrating Pherzawl's Serenity
Celebrating Pherzawl's Serenity
I’ve fallen in love with Pherzawl’s gentle air,
I’ve fallen in love where cool whispers dare.
Though summer scorches lands both far and near,
Though summer scorches, here the sky is clear.
I’m dreaming of Delhi’s relentless blaze,
I’m dreaming of Guwahati’s fiery haze.
Hmarkhawlien and Silchar’s blazing heat,
Hmarkhawlien and Silchar, I’m not missing that beat.
But here, soft mist
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Categories:
celebrating, nature,
Form: Rhyme
VE Day Eighty Years On
Exactly eighty years ago today
Came the valiant, victorious VE Day
We celebrate in commemoration
Of the day that brought each our salvation.
Amid the joy there is also sorrow
For those who never saw a tomorrow
They had bravely fought for each of our sakes
Staring dangerous missions in the face.
Let's join together
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Categories:
celebrating, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Celebrating in Birthday Opulence
A-nother
N-atal
A-ctivity
M-akes
A-ll
R-ejoice
I-n
E-legance.
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Ana Marie G. Camposo)
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Categories:
celebrating, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
CELEBRATING THINGS I CANNOT SEE
Wherever I go it’s easy to celebrate all the beauty in front of me…
the sunsets, the trees, the flowers, the ocean…
all those things my eyes can see.
But every now and then this impulse surfaces in me…
that makes me want to stop and celebrate
all the things I cannot see.
I cannot see the wind…I can only feel
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Categories:
celebrating, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Wedding poem Celebrating Your Love
We are here today to celebrate
The love you so obviously share,
A love you wish to formalise
And publicly declare.
A couple truly meant for each other,
A couple truly meant to be,
A couple whose friends and family,
We are very proud to be.
We hope your happiness continues,
That you have much more in store,
We hope the memories made today
Will stay
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Categories:
celebrating, love, marriage, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Celebrating Glen Hughes journey
Where the cold nights, the shadows blend,
Glenn Hughes rises, a voice that transcends.
With a soul forged in fire, he sings of the pain,
Each lyric a journey, each note a refrain.
From the ashes of rock, a phoenix takes flight,
His heart laid wide open, a shining light.
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Categories:
celebrating, drink, inspirational, life,
Form: Lyric
Free
Like a bird in ocean blue,
Like a butterfly’s fluttering hue,
Or a kite wandering high,
Like dandelions in their drifting sigh.
Like the wind whispering wild,
Like ripples gliding soft and mild,
Or washing flowing on the line,
Like clouds reclining, all sublime.
Like a mountain’s steadfast stance,
Like the leaves in rhythmic dance,
Or trickling, trickling, fleeting rain,
Like a horse’s galloping mane.
Like the
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Categories:
celebrating, christian, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
celebrating my queen
In the tapestry of time is a special thread,
a day of joy that I spread.
In the garden of heaven, a maiden bloom,
My one true love in full groom.
on this day a celebration of you,
the queen of my heart true and true,
with every heartbeat and with every smile,
May happiness and laughter in your world grow.
Sweet sixteen,
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Categories:
celebrating, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet Celebrating International Women's Day
With wings of golden starlight your spirits flare
Each woman burst forth a steadfast astral pyre
Your valiant souls are / defying / confining
the tethered snare
Like distant suns that are piercing the boundless mire
With hearts unyielding you are shatter iron grates
Your unshackled wings where shadows once confined
And in your touch,
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Categories:
celebrating, celebration, freedom, grandmother, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Celebrating White Supremacy
("Winter Tree", 2023, original encaustic)
Celebrating White Supremacy
As the world turns….
ever faster and more wobblier
it’s hard to go a day
without hearing some reference to ‘White Supremacy.’
Of course it’s a bad thing, right?
Sure it is, until you think what it really is.
I look around; snow deep outside
but here indoors I’m warm
no wind or snow,
a steady
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Categories:
celebrating, appreciation, humanity, humor, irony,
Form: Narrative
Celebrating the continuum
Here, for an earth life sojourn,
dwelling in mind-body urn,
the real is known by touch,
on relinquishing thought crutch.
Which breath should we hold more dear,
as waves rise and disappear,
for is not life but a flow,
savoured in staid stillness slow?
In the rainbow’s light we bask
but why not first pause to ask,
who we are, what’s life’s purpose;
as a clown,
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Categories:
celebrating, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Celebrating Christmas
Christ was not born on Christmas Day.
The date was set aside by they
over whom god Mithra held sway.
They hallowed it as his birthday.
Let not dispute about the day,
Distract from Christ in any way.
That He was born, the truth is clear.
His birth we celebrate with cheer.
Divine implant in a virgin womb,
Jesus, like a lily, would soon
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Categories:
celebrating, celebration, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 08: Celebrating Black Grandeur
In liberty's realm, we bear a cross of might,
Our skin, a testament to trials that tower high.
Injustice, a tempest, a loss that rages in the night,
Yet, in our hearts, resilience roars like thunder in the sky.
Racism, a monstrous shadow, a venomous haze,
A brutal echo of the world's scornful refrain.
Yet, we soar above
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Categories:
celebrating, 11th grade, discrimination, endurance,
Form: Sonnet
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