Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Another morning gone. The warp and weft
of kids and errands seems a sort of theft.
I love to listen to the phone-in show,
Peoria Euphoria K Seven, Illinois,
the kind of thing that housewives can enjoy -
Andrea Doria, Eva Longoria -
but parents don’t have rights. I’ve got to go.
Another morning spent. The spare room painted.
I poured the soup
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Categories:
santa claus, life,
Form: Rhyme
Santa Claus Was Afraid to Pass Through Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Papa Noël was afraid to pass through on Christmas Day
In the streets of Port-au-Prince. Bullets were being fired in droves
Sporadically, haphazardly. Many people were hiding under beds
Naughty terrorists are like dogs, hyenas in vile forests or deadly wilderness
They are everywhere with big machine guns which are not made in Haiti
The lawless bandits or God-awful devils
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Categories:
santa claus, black african american, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Santa Claus is Fraud
I sit here in this secluded place, hoping that Santa would knock on my gate, but every wind that blows drifts my boat further away from the shore and the summer in my heart keeps exploding in the dark and the roaring waves toss the boat further into the sea forcing destiny to sign an
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Categories:
santa claus, betrayal, business, change, community,
Form: Narrative
santa claus says so
it's a christmas rule
calories don't count eat up
santa claus says so
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Categories:
santa claus, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku
You Better Believe It
You better believe it
When I say this because,
Here before you I sit ...
The one and only, Santa Claus
When I say this because
... I want you to believe,
The one and only, Santa Claus
Your eyes do not deceive
I want you to believe
Look at me, if you can,
Your eyes
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Categories:
santa claus, childhood, children, christmas, growing
Form: Pantoum
Believe in Santa Claus
The sun never shines
On Santa's behind
As his sleigh only flies
Across nighttime skies
Still in the blink of an eye
The gifts do arrive
Let us all take pause
To thank Santa Claus
For year after year
He brings us good cheer
And the way to receive
Is you simply believe
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Categories:
santa claus, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Eve with Santa Claus
“Twas the night before Christmas” four decades ago,
when my late ex-husband suited up as Santa Claus so
he could surprise our two toddlers and spice our
Christmas Eve party through the midnight hour.
It is our family tradition to celebrate Christmas on
Christmas Eve and we committed to keep it going on.
A joyous family gathering to welcome the birth
of
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Categories:
santa claus, christmas, eve, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Santa Claus
I'm a bad boy, and it is uncanny
How I always get hit on my fanny.
If I could get my paws...
What I mean, Santa Claus -
I wish Julie Andrews for my nanny.
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Categories:
santa claus, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Children of the Planets
We are children of the planets,
We are children made of stars.
We once believed in a magic old man
Riding in an airborne sled.
With a bounty of unconditional love
For every child, a bounty for any child.
We must remain those children,
Believing this love is universal,
Believing it is truly unconditional,
Love that glides on sleigh runners
Over ethereal vistas of
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Categories:
santa claus, childhood, children, christmas, giving,
Form: Free verse
The Christmas Skinny
I wrote to Prof Arab
And I asked Dr Jew
I spoke with Mrs Christian
And typed to ChatGPT too
One of them said it was spiritual
The other, it was not real
Another said academic fiction
The last, it was the real deal
It began in the 4th century
In a place called Rome
By the 12th century
St Nich had entered every home
As
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Categories:
santa claus, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
I Saw Santa Claus
In England it is almost twelve o'clock
I just saw Santa Claus in his red smock
He left parcels galore
Outside of my front door
Asked him in, but he said his lips were sore.
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Categories:
santa claus, character, christmas, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
FROM SANTA CLAUS XMAS 2011
written twelve years ago
when yours truly about two score
and twelve years old,
and fishy financial fiasco
about twenty six weeks
before being scalloped
courtesy villainous fraudster
otherwise known as scam artists,
blithely, glibly, and pliantly
fleeced with shear trickery
my coveted nest egg.
TO: TWO PRECIOUS HARRIS LASSES
WHO LIVE ON GREENTREE LANE
THIS FAST APPROACHING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
AS WILL READILY BECAME PLAIN
RECEIVED A
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Categories:
santa claus, 7th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Wishes from the Parents
The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front window
To me
Staring back from the couch
He is sweating out there in his winter coat
House fills with noisy nightly ghosts
Filling empty beds left from the grown kids
Creaks I suppose from the
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Categories:
santa claus, children, christmas, eve, growing
Form: Free verse
A Bad Poem About Christmas
Xmas is here tonight
At midnight, what a night!
Let's write a bad poem about Christmas
Before the Midnight Mass
As we offer our best wishes to all on the planet
This is it
Santa Claus is sliding in the chimney
Hurray, hurray!
Papa Noël is coming to town to bring gifts
Garlic, olive oil and onion
To everyone
Stop all types of cheats.
Long live Papa
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Categories:
santa claus, birth, celebration, child, christian,
Form: Rhyme
I Saw Santa Claus
Snow had fallen, Christmas Eve morning,
On every rooftop and branch adorning
Burying my rural world in white,
And changing this place overnight
Early, I had wandered out the door,
Wanting to take in the forest more
I did gasp and my foot did pause,
When indeed, I saw Santa Claus
Standing alone there in the clearing,
Attending to his reindeer, so
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Categories:
santa claus, character, christmas, december, eve,
Form: Rhyme
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