Long Wassail Poems

Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype-inherited flaw chimera
fantasy flurry...

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"~ (~) ~"

"oh god-
tender, 

gracious - 

render us 
softly upon fields silken-
lavender flower-petaline 
clear-sky's paradise-
golden... - 

till when 
if then 
there-we 
make-it... ?"

bushel, 
animate 
deaden 
never 
ever 
eminent 
this hope. 


your-blessing, 
adduce. 


yes-privy wassail us-
in...

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Written: September 30, 2023
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"There is my body,...

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Written: April 3rd 2024
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How I venerate you, O Lord
In your...

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(continued)
                        V

Has it not occurred to you how I sat with you
dear...

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'Twas the night before Christmas, and ...


(THE REQUEST)

Reclining my hammock, very still
(Far too lax to persuade its swing)
I contemplate my Mai Tai's chill
And what I'll plead dear Santa bring ...

Hmmm ...

My hut, provisioned with all...

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Written: February 24, 2024
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Moonbeams kindle ambrosian dreams
Love evolves on auric gleams 
A gem in...

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In ancient times, marked in Celtic clans
There are stories told, and legends formed 
And rituals would unfold
The apples were pressed, to make an ale for wassail toasts
To warm the host, when snow skimmed off the...

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Have you ever wondered where it all began
The rituals marked among the Celtic clans?
Look into the past and they are found
This day is when the sun would turn around

For when darkest days of winter fell...

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It seems not everyone adores
Witty phrasing or metaphors

     But this time of year's so dark
     I thought I'd fan a yuletide spark

See, it's winter and I'm listless
Still,...

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The rangy longhorns were rounded up and tended to.
Over the Colorado plains a fearsome blizzard blew!
'Twas Christmas Day!  The cowpokes paid no mind to the storm,
As they huddled 'round the potbellied stove all snug...

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Like an avian roosting when his cawing has spilled,
I mourn in grief as this shadowed night grows cold
Crushed and grieving from promises unfulfilled
Sorrow burgeons my heart, in bitterness enfold
like unspun wool on a distaff or...

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Written: December 04, 2023
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Desensitizing me—destroying my delusion.
Snapping sight of the kaleidoscopic illusion.
Delving into eternity of utopian ecstasy
Shimmering in an ethereal golden fantasy

Drifting...

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Cheers to Christmas, 
A Joyous Season’s nigh.
Cheers to hot & spicy wassail
Keeping Christmas Spirits high.

Cheers to our Fellow Man.
Best wishes, one & all!
Cheers to Christmas carols,
Chorales of bells chime “Deck the Halls”! 

Cheers to hanging...

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Written: January 16, 2024
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Strength of herbs oozes vivacity and harmony
Chamomile elixir elevates mood,
Innermost wassail dreams. 

Galled, gurgling water...

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(The Kyoto Protocol, an international
treaty signed in December 1997, commits
member states to reduce their carbon
dioxide emissions.  The United States is
the only First World nation not to ratify
the treaty.) 

Spend it, squander, swill down, swallow,...

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He scoffs at our joyful noise
The good spirits we invoke,
As he passes by with grim poise
Thinking this holiday is a joke

Still, we make the time brighter
We go about in a cheery stance,
Making lives a little...

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An early Christmas message for you all...

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Fir trees droop and brightly glisten,
street lamps cast their glow, and listen!
sounds of singing...

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An early Christmas message for you all...

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Fir trees droop and brightly glisten,
street lamps cast their glow, and listen!
sounds of singing...

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Wassail



Fir trees droop and brightly glisten,
street lamps cast their glow, and listen!
sounds of singing drifting lightly
o'er the air, as children sprightly
fashion snowmen, fat and jolly,
wrapped in scarves and wreaths of holly;
horse-drawn coaches softly clip-clop
down the...

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Fir trees droop and brightly glisten,
street lamps cast their glow, and listen!
sounds of singing drifting lightly
o'er the air, as children sprightly
fashion snowmen, fat and jolly,
wrapped in scarves and sprigs of holly;
horse-drawn coaches softly clip-clop
down the...

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