A Christmas Card

Poetry challenge: Christmas Poem.

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Paper greetings, printed in opaque black,
swirled with ochre tones – and embossed
with tinsel and glare.

Blue Christmas

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.

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Submitted by Ex Libris Regina



 

Mall’s Mélange of Yule yodelling tunes,
Thick with fossilized marzipan.
Deflated Santa’s, dead balloons,
Fruitcake in the mousetrap, and
Howls, horrid howls of homeless Ghosts
Clanking their chains up the alley ways, and
To my front door, banked with snow.

Poetry challenge: Christmas Poem.

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The challenge is to write a poem about the Christmas season.

It can be serious or humour the choice is yours.

Enjoy the challenge.

Broken Lights

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.
 
 

Beneath the sparkling surface

Under festive ribbons and bows

Behind stockings hung with care

Lurks another side to Christmas

Filled with despair

Merry Christmas…!!

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.

Arrived…!!
It’s Christmas time a-gain.

Christmas Challenge – Chained Tanka

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.

Vue de toits (Effet de neige) (1878) – Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894)

Winter Wonderland

Christmas is near
in a small Italian town
aglitter with lights
under heavy grey skies
there’s a promise of snow

Crackling Icon, Poetry Challenge.

Submitted by Paturnerlee

 
 
Picked on ribbon tone rivets
To march on the criss cross servant holiday
Crushed crystals disposed of in bubbling gas water
An altar sugar sweet crackling money pot
Full of deep desire and wished on treats
Craving shaken tear spreading raven coloured tunnel
Cheap trick for magician on the hock for a star turn angel

Christmas to Celebrate

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.

 

Silver garland flows bough to bough.
Icicles shimmer, capturing colored lights.
Blue bulbs bobble row to row.

Poetry Challenge: Christmas

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.
 
 

A sobering thought

Can I ask your indulgence for just a mo?
and to picture a scene with me?
It’s cold and it’s started snowing
And down there, close to the sea
There’s an empty bus shelter and an old cardboard box
And a man on a bench looking grim
Do you remember that day when you were shopping in town
Can you not remember him?

Poetry Challenge: Christmas

Poetry Challenge: Christmas poem.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men

Crystal white in starlight’s gaze that peaks between the falling snow,
whispers sweet a Christmas song, upon a rhythm deep and slow…
It gathers in the spirit, resounds within the soul,
builds to bring a chorus strong of peace in phrases sweet and whole…
of peace on earth, good will toward men.

Cat’s Meow Christmas

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.

 

This

holiday

that jolly tree

Love’s Sacrifice

Poetry challenge: Christmas poem.
 
 

 

Peace be to you on this morn.
Our loving Saviour has been born.
And in the manger there He lay.
He came to take our sins away.

The Nativity

Christmas Poem: Challenge

Over two thousand years ago to date,
a baby was born of a virgin birth.
A date we remember and celebrate
by spreading good tidings with joy and mirth.

Christmas lights

Posted for Tea Norman

 

 

Christmas poem: Challenge.

 

 

Christmas lights shine bright

while reindeer fly in the night.

 

My gifts are wrapped tight.

The angels on the tree in flight.

When my christmas comes…

Posted for Poetry’s passion

Christmas poem: Christmas.

i understand why people take their lives
at this time of year.
so much is expected of oneself..
be cheerful.
be happy.
make merry.
i can play the game, look the part.
but on the inside, i’m dying.

Christmas Poem: Challenge.

This is a very simple challenge for you all.

All you have to do is write a poem for Christmas.

Serious,  humour or any other type, enjoy writing.

Click to see the poets who have posted below.

Good luck to you all.

Bah Humbug

Christmas poem: Challenge.

Quiet moments watching the snow fall
Thinking of times past and days yet to be
We mold our future by the days gone by
Like most, I think of those close to me.

Forgotten

Christmas poem: Challenge.

 Posted for Teasy.

Bells jingle for Kris kringle
Children, in a world devoid of pity
No Christmas tree, glitter or belles that jingle
Survival their priority, no exchanging of gifts
Santa why leave these children adrift
Though a legend and immortalised
What licence, allows thee to categorize

Wonderment

Challenge poem: Challenge.

Posted for Teasy.

Children everywhere lie in beds
Frenzied hysterical unable to sleep
Listen en-toomed within a cacophony of noise
Devoid of silence, these innocent lie
Though if one child disregarded, passed by
Forgotten dwellers of a humbled abode
Santa never travels down their road

A Mother’s Christmas

Christmas Poem: Challenge

As Christmas Day approaches I panic,

still so much to do, where to find the time?

Mother of the clan, failure is a crime,

for a bare Christmas is truly tragic.

Expecting it to happen like magic,

Christmas lights

Christmas poem: Challenge.

Posted for Topazshell

Christmas lights shine bright
while reindeer fly in the night.

My gifts are wrapped tight.
The angels on the tree in flight.

The Most Difficult Time Of The Year

Christmas poem: Challenge.

It’s the most difficult time of the year
(Ding dong, ding dong)
It’s the most difficult time of the year
(Ding dong ding dong)
Cold winds are blowing, liquor is flowing
Nauseated by all the fake good cheer
It’s the most difficult time of the year

Christmas Season

Christmas poem: Challenge.

The Christmas Season has at last arrived!

Months of waiting, and of making up lists,

of what to buy, for who, and where to stay?

With so much good will, our spirits have thrived.

Even with bellies full, our host insists

Theo and The Christmas Tree – Christmas Poetry Challenge

Christmas poem: Challenge.

Theo and the Christmas tree

There was a small boy named Theodore
whose age was three years plus a bit more.
He helped decorate our tree
with great oodles of glee
then made off home with more baubles than four!

Christmas Alone

Christmas Poem : Challenge

It’s a cold winters night, I’m all alone.

Wandering down the high street, I wonder

about the friends and family I’ve known.

Where are they now? All huddled together?

All warm inside, whilst I’m left asunder,

traipsing through snow in such ruthless weather?

Why am I out here, when  I miss them so?

The crackling fire, the sparkling tree,

No Christmas here.

Christmas poem: Challenge.

Christmas what Christmas

living here on the streets

The Gift of His Presence (Christmas Poetry)

Christmas poem: Challenge.

My prayer for you this Christmas
Is to receive what Christ has done
A baby born in a manger
Has come to save everyone

Christmas Snow

Christmas poem: Challenge.

Today, in winter’s first day glory,

I’ve walked ‘neath frozen giants, gold,

held to sun in morning’s story

with midnight’s snow and breezes cold.