Christmas Card Poem (2022)
Over the stillness
a silence greets our walk
alongside the snow
to your family,
the wind curiously absent
and no children
eager to build snowmen
or men walking their dogs,
a stillness greeting footsteps
that one sound
carrying us forward
binding us together in excitement,
that one continuous emotion
a love spreading us onward
across the snow
forwards never backwards
forward...
Friday 23rd December 2022 11:16 pm
5 days until Christmas Haiku
5 days until Christmas Haiku
Emptying the food shelves
five days until Christmas falls
panic rises high.
Tuesday 20th December 2022 7:01 pm
Christmas Card Poem (2021)
Resurrecting ghosts
the snow blows under the bridge
beneath the train staiton
blowing a invisible bell
weighted in emotion
tunnelling over a day
foretold in images over frozen lakes
shawled over empty hills
and ringing bells pausing
in a silent moment of reflection
filing our footprints in silence
our hands into snowmen
wishing we had put our boots on
and our toches in our pockets
...
Thursday 23rd December 2021 10:24 pm
Christmas Card Poem 2020
You say the snow is a magical thing
Coming down from the heavens like magic
Before joining up together on the ground
And Father Christmas throws it all down
Just to complete the experience
Drifting your happiness across town
Whether by car or bus
In-between two places on Christmas Day
When another downpour
Leaves the pair of us laughing
Telling each other ironically
It could only ha...
Thursday 24th December 2020 10:44 am
12 days after Christmas
Wednesday 28th December 2011 7:32 pm
Christmas Acrostic
Has a subtle magic in it which
Rains down on you softly
Instead of screaming or
Swearing at you
That makes even the most minor thing
Mean everything
And creates hope so that it
Springs out of misery.
Wednesday 21st December 2011 9:53 pm
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