Covered with Seasons
Bent with Good Health
Blessed with Sound Reasons
To Wish You Great Wealth...
in Holiday Mirth and Friendship

Renee Hankins, Kettering, OH

Like continents, bound in our wheres and our whiles,
We're still all connected through time and the miles.
This seasonal isthmus,
We wish you Good Christmas
And a year that will bring you epiphanous smiles.

Milt Bigger, Crofton, MD

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Joy
lives in me
like a delighted fool
peering through distress
into the silly heart of worry
slitting open beating conundrums
splitting wide the thumping paradox
and spilling out the abundant evidence
of his
being

Karen Stromberg, La Mesa, CA

The planet wobbles.
Have you forgotten?
While we shiver in the early dark
The other half is dancing in high grass.

Cleome Green, Wareham, MA

On Christmas Eve
in another Dimension
As Jesus watches the earth
He projects a thought to all of us
Who contemplate his birth.
On Christmas Day as we awake
And gather 'round the tree
There's a lingering dream which we all share
We are all family...
We are all family...

Denise Taylor, Atlantic Mine, MI

Recipe for gladness Music pulses within this moment. Dance in the joy of anticipating the next which lies wrapped and ribboned. Linger in the space between the moments so that you can See it all as a scene inside a snow globe just as fragile .

A. Dalton, College Station, TX

I.
For shops and stops in small boutiques
For lights and sights that last for weeks
For hustling bustling neon streaks
I wish for Christmas in the city found...

Elizabeth Noble, Houston, TX

II.
For cottages cozy and covered with snow
For cakes and cookies and mistletoe
For friends and for families faces aglow
I wish for Christmas in a little town...

Eric Hamp, Houston, TX

III.
For faith and hope and love my friend
For generosity without end
For all the broken hearts to mend
I wish for Christmas all year round.

Matthew Wood, Houston, TX