Christmas Free Verse Poems

I walked like someone
who had just been forgiven,
but still didn’t know the way home.

It was because I overslept
in your room—
the hush of your breath
still stitched...

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Why not me, i always asks,  
In shadows where the silence basks,  
When sickness came, I felt the chill,  
While soup and...

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Birthday, Christmas Day, Fourth of July
Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, ain’t gonna lie
Holiday, Holy Day, Fifth Monday
Every day, all day, not a fun day

Each day, every day...

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It’s Christmas
But it feels like Halloween
What’s found and what’s lost
And what’s in between

It’s Christmas
But it feels like Halloween
“A love lost?!
But you’re only eighteen!”

It’s Christmas
But it...

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in every pack of pistachios there are
one or two shells which are resistant to
the fingernail the addictive leverage
the satisfying splitting apart

you put them aside and...

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Why do some coins purposefully have holes punched in the middle?
To save copper, silver and gold?
Guess again.

So you can hang them on Christmas trees
Or around...

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They treated me for bipolar disorder.
I wanted you to know.

Although the doctors later said
it was the Adipex-p and weed 
mimicking 
an up-and-down disease—
it hasn’t happened...

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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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Shes been called home
A mother a grandmother a great grandmother
Shes been cleanse of all the pain
The sky has gained a bright star
A light like no...

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I met her in the city's silent veins,
Where neon flickers like forgotten flames.
It was Christmas — a holy night,
Yet her smile outshone every light.

Nicole Jackson...

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I am no longer of use.
That much is clear.

They pass me by like I’m furniture—
just another shape gathering dust
in the corner of the kitchen
where light...

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As I walked into a family restaurant,
My nose got tickled all of a sudden 
By a familiar aroma that entered my nostrils.
It transported me back...

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ghosts …

of Christmases past
wander through this disconsolate house
weary but hearty hearts that once
thrummed, eager and one
their echoes …
soft-whispering me of what’s
imperfectly precious
then …

and now.






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Missing you is like missing a shot,
It's so very painful because everyone puts the blame of you,
It's been a little over 2 years since,
July 3,...

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Eternal God did not abandon man after Papa Adam fell into sin
But promised to send the world a Savior to free man from his sins
And...

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