Holiday Eve Poems

Once upon a time, on New Year’s Eve,
We dressed and then we headed out,
For gathering with friends was what
The holiday was all about.

We drank and...

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Winter approaches with a soft, light step
A simple breezy chill swallowing your mind
With eyelashes frosty and limbs bundled up
A home with flames dancing in the...

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Time and time again 
I have made it here,
Said goodbye to the old
And welcomed a new year

No top hats, no noisemakers 
No champagne or wine,
Just...

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…..BREAKING..... HEADLINE..... NEWS.....
this Xmas eve day 2023

After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more sans eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word, and spelt, spilt, spoilt,
et cetera...

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When I was growing up,
So many years ago,
I knew that the wonder of love,
Glistened, a Christmas glow.

We spent Christmas Eve together,
There at Granny’s house,
Listening to...

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Havoc is when all hell is loose,
This night belongs to all of you...
 
To the pumpkins slashed into lanterns
“Stingy Jack” his trusty O’ hand returns.

Ne'er-do-wells...

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The New Year

It is a new year... 
It is a new day.
It is the first day...
of many more. 

The problem, 
and the answer... 
It came...

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New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his...

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eight flying reindeer
alight rooftop to rooftop...
footsteps in the snow


(Haiku)


12/03/2022


A Brian Strand Choice Hiku Footle Tanka Clerihew Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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This is the night to bring in a new year 
You might want to celebrate with some beer
That is quite all right
As long as you...

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Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the house
My grandpa's fast at work carving a wooden mouse
In the spirit of St. Nick he bloomed...

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Goodbye sun, hello moon, it is time
All Hallow's Evening has now arrived,
Pumpkins lit until dawn, wink sublime
Lest all flame, wax and wick be deprived

Sheeted ghosts...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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C is for Candles lit in your window sills and also in Churches 
H is for a world in Harmony and Happiness 
R is for...

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It happens every year  

Filled with cheer  

A holiday when we get together  

But it was the weather  

Which made us...

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