Family Christmas Poems

Men in tailored suits 
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking 
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm 
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped, 
crinolined, 
elegantly sculpted.

Their...

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Out in the streets,
A Church bell cries
Under a misletoe,
A couple shares a delightful surprise

Marking the advent of dusk
Streetlights ignite
Flaunting the excitements 
Of the christmas that...

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There's no stocking stuffed with presents
No punch bowl filled with  cheer
We haven't got the tree,  that 
We didn't buy this year


No,  turkey...

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It had been so long since I’d felt loved and wanted.
Then I met John. We basked in our late-in-life romance.
Gone was the loneliness that had...

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Your car fishtailed in the slush
that was already 
beginning to freeze,
as if you couldn’t wait 
to get away after
dropping me off at
the library 
on Christmas...

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Give me a kiss under the mistletoe
as
Christmas comes but once a year
gathering friends and family near
and
if X is a kiss is kissmas a word
if it...

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I love the sights of Christmastime 
from manger scenes to mistletoe. 
Sweet, joyous sounds pervade the air 
from "Praise the Lord" to "HO HO HO!"...

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It was cold and freezing in the city of Denver. 
A day in my life I will always remember. 
The sound of sirens wailing all...

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Day and night
Over my years
I watch
This full owl body carved from the light
Of wood
With its slimly painted feathers and howling eyes 

Held in swooping flight
At...

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This is a belated Christmas poem 

Poor man's Christmas 
They lived so long in poverty and couldn't even afford a Christmas tree . Their Christmas...

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Dear child B66.
Don't wait for a perfect friendship.
Make your friendship to be perfect.
Don't dream of a perfect family,
Make your family to be perfect.

All I want...

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2024.12.24 Christmas Eve.
Dear Santa, 
I admit, I have been naughty this year,
Still, here is my wish list.
A train set to keep my heart closer to...

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The Real Christmas


From Black Friday to Christmas Eve,
presents to purchase and wrap. 
Office and family parties, visits to relatives
platters of food and gallons of alcohol.
Trees...

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I notice the single placemat within the circle of noise,
Placing my phone on the cluttered side plate,
I can feel the Christmas spirit resonating through,
The crowd...

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Praisin' Kringle, jolly Nick
for last minute Christmas 
smashed-torn gifts.

Cause pop-pop suspects
dad's stuck again,
inside the sooty chimney.
...

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