Christmas Triolet Poems

haiku/ triolet/ tanka

bare are trees’ branches
except for random pine trees
wearing Christmas lights

Fun holidays that I adore -
so swiftly do they slip away
and always leave me...

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A pale blue haze hangs heavily over the earth
Or it seems to on this beautiful Christmas card
Announcing the miracle of sweet Jesus’s birth
A pale blue...

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Bells ringing, children singing
Sounds of the season’s joys
Cash registers are dinging
Bells ringing, children singing.
Lovers are blinging; Santa’s bringing
Presents for little girls and boys
Bells ringing, children...

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A feeling of magic in the air prevails
As we approach another Christmas Day
Only Mama knows what it all entails,
For she takes care of all the...

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The sky alive as the world in glamour;
children's tiny cold bare feet they did sneak
underneath the Christmas tree they clamber.
The sky alive as the world...

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Stores are all decorated for Christmas
Thanksgiving is merely an afterthought,
Seems it is about doing lots of business
Stores are all decorated for Christmas.
I can’t smile for...

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*Image of Comet Kohoutek by Wilkie.

Celestial Christmas Eve '73

'Twas day of Christmas eve, seventy-three,
Comet Kohoutek, badminton like sleeve,
Play-daytime Santa, store-bought gifts wrap-free,
'Twas day of Christmas...

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Haunted by my Christmas wonder
Shiny thoughts filled with dancing lights
A babe who put doubt asunder
Haunted by my Christmas wonder
Joy,  hope and peace roar like...

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Love came down that first Christmas eve,
A babe, a Son was born,
The greatest gift we'd ever receive.
Love came down that first Christmas eve,
A Savior for...

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Now that she is gone, I am bereft of cheer
The holidays are the most difficult times
Oh, how I wish my dear Deborah were here
Now that...

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A perfect Christmas tree in the woodland
Beyond the meadow, I’ve had my eye on it
But cutting in the woodland has been banned
A perfect Christmas tree...

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A pale blue haze hangs heavily over the earth
Or it seems to on this beautiful Christmas card
Announcing the miracle of sweet Jesus’s birth
A pale blue...

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The annual Christmas Bazaar is tomorrow
In a country village not far from my home,
Joy and glee casting out all seasonal sorrow
The annual Christmas Bazaar is...

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the joys of sleet turning into snow,
are of X-mas to be ushered soon,
brings cheer to hearts as X-mas lights glow!

the joys of sleet turning into...

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25, the number man created
And bestowed upon the young lord
As his day of birth

An advent into chaos he made
His birth, a day of pain
For all...

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