Best Festive Poems
Sweet as Christmas candy cane
She takes away my pain
Embellishes low spirts
Then she’ll crystallise the rain
With care, wraps up my anguish
Topped off with festive bow
Ensures there’s room within her inn
When I have no place to go
She jingles my bells when I’m going through hell
turns my tears into to snow flakes
With her jovial spell
Illuminates darkness with twinkling lights
embraces me warmly When Jack Frost bites
She’s a gift of the very highest degree
My Angel
My star
Adorning my tree
The most precious of baubles
Such a Yuletide time cracker
She can loose herself in this seasonal Chatter
She disperses my worries
and breaks them all down
They don’t seem so huge
As they fall to the ground
Like a magical snow globe
She shakes up my sadness
She’s my sparkling tinsel
and fills me with gladness
My dearest of friends who I treasure so deeply
Always thinking of others
and sings oh so sweetly
The tune of this heavenly holy night
Sprinkling hope as saint Nicholas takes his flight.
They seem confetti
falling on a long parade
to welcome Autumn
Prep done with glowing heart
The list grows as day gets near
Decked out in fall pumpkin hues
Reminiscent of harvest bounty
All the fixin’s for a feast
Every detail thought thru
Enticing aromas fill the house
Carving turkey with precision
Best china set ‘round the table
Sharing drinks in finest crystal
Toasting to happiness and health
Ready for capping off the banquet
Are flaky pies hot in the oven
Saying grace comes natural
When gifted with sweet abundance
True friends and loving family
Sturdy roof over our heads
Fortunate are we in every way
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Align your way:
Feel surge of zest,
Embrace new day,
See spring's sure quest;
Truth and beauty
Instruct and stay;
Voice harmony,
Exult pulse play.
Sense a grand surge
Prompt festive waves
Reach and emerge,
Indulge thoughts brave;
Now funds good times,
Grand health that chimes.
Leon Enriquez
15 February 2015
Singapore
All through the year it's been coming
the months, weeks and days countdown
then in that final month of the year
all the pressure makes one frown
It's the fastest paced month by far
everything's a gogo in December
all pointing to Santa time at Christmas
be ready get all the pressies remember!
Sadly the real reason for the season
has been lost in this materialistic world
God sent His son to be our saviour
instead man leaves the message curled
It can bring a mixture of weather
where ever in the world you may be
of course it's my birthday month
now let's find as real nice green tree
Terza Rima Sonnet On the Boston Marathon bomb blast:
On a festive flag-flapping day of fun
for the victims of blind bombs all over the globe
On a festive flag-flapping day of fun
Two brothers back-packed with hot nails in pipes
White cap leading black cap in marathon
More than two millions’ indoor hemmed in gripes
Nine thousand armed to teeth charged for brother
And six doleful innocent eyes Boston wipes
One misled madly charges a brother
In tether out to die in showdown blast
A last ditch for some ill-tutored blabber
Then while the world looks on in pity aghast
A mindless lad plays out the cult of yore
Some Sohrab takes on the West’s blind bomb blast
If those bright and good be un-taught to adore
What hope may there be for the rest any more.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Your best day
life is short
live with joy
The path you
chose to go
at first dawn
Who has said
your foot tracks
is just dust ?
23.01.2023
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Woke up with the sounds of the neighbor’s dogs barking
Normally it would end after a few times
But Today wasn’t any morning
It was the morning of festive lines
Children running in joy
Innocent smiles and laughs
As Satisfaction of a pirate chanting ahoy
Spotting shore after enduring miles
Girls are Cheerful and ecstatic
Chasing each other all the way to the attic
No shouting or sneering
Today all the anger and stress was ceasing
The Firework will light the sky
And Moon and the stars will pry
They wonder all the sudden alleviation
Upon a race that losses hope, faith and sanity by the slightest temptation
The scene of a perfect entrée
Ballerinas twirling dancing fouetté
But good times pass and people forget
Sinking in their busy lives
Mauve, pink, plum graced room
Prayers, jokes, fashion show sailed
Gourmet food, music...
Mellow; poetic treats,
Women's laughter laced sweet.
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Donkey
Pin back your ears
Settle down for the ride
And you'll find a warm feeling
Somewhere way deep inside..
Here is a story
That has often been told
It's full of excitement
and never gets old
It starts with a journey
You've heard it before..
There's Joseph, Mary and baby
And donkey makes four.
They travelled from far
To Bethlehem's Inn
Where a bed for the night..
..well it wasn't a thing
So the Inn Keeper showed them
A place round the side
With a shed and some straw
And a manger to hide
And here at the stable
As all gather around
The new baby gurgled
a heavenly sound
And the star of the show?
Not the one high above
It's this baby right here
The one swaddled in love
So here is the thing
As our story unfolds..
The star in the sky
Sends a message so bold...
Like a beacon to signal
To nations and races
That this King has been born
To put smiles on our faces
"I'm here for this child
so all people can see
There's a star up in heaven
So much brighter than me."
So to ears that can hear
And to eyes that can see..
A message of joy
Tells of all that can be..
But one creature here
Knowing more than the rest..
Having carried the baby
Having passed every test
Knowingly munches
By the crib filled with hay
That this baby will save us
From bad things one day
He knows that this child..
Is far more than enough.
The reason we celebrate
All this Christmassy stuff
The greatest of gifts
With the lowliest start
For the baby is coming
To reclaim your heart
So pin back your ears
Settle down for the ride
And try not to deny
That warm feeling inside..
@jinjagoliath
December 18th 2021
@jenna.mckell.creates
Image: With the Animals
holidays are festive,like you
do not be blue i am here for you
love is bright,love is alright
lets go out tonight with all your might
b sweet n neat with a heartbeat
on your feet with a treat
then take your seat
off your feet
b kind n find peace on your mind
do not drink wine n say that you are fine
and say let us dine
A Christmas tree is more beautiful with a happy family.
Date: 07/12/2015
Form:
Journey of a thousand mile
Started out with a smile
Boldness and courage were the kit
All suit up in strength of great stealth
Feeling all ready
For a journey of thousand mile
A foot step forward
Then a thousand steps after
Grope in dark, search goes on and on..
Search of what's right ,so I don't go wrong
Aggressively I persist about the unseen
Yet Hurdles and stomps made it an adventure
But I gotta be strong.
Dedication stays the drive
While Will the wheel
Still for a Journey of A Thousand Mile
Tides ebb and flow, basked and broke
Still hoping and praying to see Dawn
Heartfelt words yet strife in the world
Still I persist on this : One Time
Journey of A Thousand Mile
Then and then a manual birth from Divine
On how to stay a Fine-Wine
So I can grow with this Love filled Vine
O' ye "disobedience" is the pine
On the Journey of A Thousand Mile
Sweats the hallmark Stress the benchmark !
My eyes fully dilated
Just as the long Awaited goal draws closer
Light shines through across from a distance
Through the Tunnel of
This Journey of A Thousand Mile
I screamed in excitement
For I know here comes the moment
I screamed some more
For I believe I weep no more
Then I ran towards the light
At the end of the tunnel
Still screaming amain, never minding
My hurting Bowel
For its been Journey of A Thousand Mile
A louder sound clouds mine
Coming from the corridors
Of the past, unto
The Dwelling doors of the Present .
Mankind is in constant conflict with his
Nemesis, The Act of "Disobedience ".
Nemesis screamed louder
Man's inevitable end
Made me scream some more
Into the Six feet fitted for defeat
Nemesis screamed the most
All on this
Journey of A Thousand Mile
Which ended a Cry.
20/6/2017
A golden sun I yearn to see t'morrow
That’s never, ever dawn in my life-time;
The crows will caw with its first-ever glow,
And wrens will timely chime a welcome rhyme.
The sun will brightly dawn with healing rays
And scorch forever to cease that Covid, beast,
Who chokes our throats with his, malicious gaze,
And furls the table, laid for ceaseless feast.
Red-bills will bring the news of a vaccine,
And hospital beds will lonely … bemoan;
Young men will queue for delicious cuisine,
And elders will break their bedridden zone.
They all will coolly fly in festive air
And dive in fleecy dreams with little care.
That’s = that has
Syllabic count: 10 syllables in each line.
Rhyme scheme: ABAB; CDCD; EFEF, GG
Sept. 30, 2020
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I love to sit in comfort
At home watching TV
I watch my favorite movies
The one's that work for me
It's not a Christmas movie
Just because there's snow
That's something folks at Hallmark
Should be told, so someone knows
To me, A Christmas movie
Has Santa and a gift
It has a Christmas message
It gives people a lift
Getting lost in a big snowstorm
Finding love in a small town
Doesn't make it Christmas
In fact, it brings me down
I want music, Bing and Danny
Scrooge , Kris Kringle, silent night
I want movies I grew up with
I want films in black and white
I watch movies that will touch me
Make me feel what's deep inside
I want to feel the Christmas spirit
I want shepherds to abide
A Christmas film is something
I want to sit and watch each year
I want to understand what they are saying
I want the message to be clear
Entertain me, make me feel it
Films traditional and new
I want to travel backwards
To remember Christmas past....don't you
A real good Christmas movie
Brings memories into my mind
Of sitting down with Grandpa
Things Hallmark doesn't find
So, even though it starts a fire
No matter what you see
It may be a Christmas film to you
But, it may not be to me