Holiday Fantasy Poems

In the world where love fulfills the vast sky,
My beloved, on this regal holiday of celebration,
When hearts beat in unison beneath the chaste moon,
I wrap...

Read More

I can see the world spread below
As I glide and soar up here so high,
I can even catch an image there
With my patent magic eye.
There’s...

Read More

I entered a competition
In a gardening magazine.
I had to write a poem
About a garden I had seen.

I chose a lovely garden
That was here in my...

Read More

Away in a sleigh
No gifts for today
Santa's gone on holiday
Reindeer unyoked, stray

Mr Claus found a clause
In his contract, to pause,
When boots on reindeer paws
Were threadbare...

Read More

Friday is yesterday
I am living in saturday
Waiting for my sunday....

Read More

I am very small,                     ...

Read More

I worked at a boisterous animal shelter, which wasn't too far from my home,
That filled days with barks, meows and singing, like green wilderness zones.

I...

Read More

Santa Claus hired a dragon, Donnie Draco
to bring shy elves out of their cocoons;
he trains them to deliver the presents,
as meeting humans for them, is...

Read More

And in this Winter Wonderland
               where Queens of Ice are in...

Read More

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...

Read More

The hills that once were gold and red
Are now a deep gray and barren instead,
Awaiting the first drape of winter’s white
Snow, or ice crystals sparkling...

Read More

I'm badly in need of a holiday
It happens every year at this time
Need to go where the palm trees grow
And the sun shines all the...

Read More

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...

Read More

Lupercalia
O! Yon Pagan festival Come on come all
Merry men named Valentine Two of which
One who was a priest in third century Rome
He whom defied Emperor...

Read More

The seven sisters’ supernal sight
was by sailors stellarly prized
in legendary dove-likened flight,
catasterism immortalized.

As mythical frieze empyreal
they appear in stargazers’ view
of the Pleiades ethereal 
fleeing in...

Read More