CHRISTMAS CACTUS

 

The Christmas cactus

The winter-bloomer

Its jointed flat segments

Look like experiments

Made by a young boy

With a construction set toy

But the rose-purple flowers

Light up the winter hours

SNOW BLIND

 

Since the snow began to fall

My wife has done nothing at all

But stare blankly through the window

As the snow lays snow on snow

If it continues in this way

We shall have a white Christmas day

But my wife stares through the glass

As the snow falls thick and fast

Sadly, if it gets any worse outside

I'll have to let her come inside

SNOWMAN BLUES

 

Out of the snowy lawn

The snowman grew

Wearing a hat and scarf

The way that you do

 

With pebbles for eyes

Pressed into the snow

A smiley twig mouth

And a large carrot nose

 

He’s a magnificent site

The snowman that grew

But he’s just snow and ice

And no substitute for you

 

I wish you were here

To chase the blues away

I wish you’d come back

To me for Christmas day

ROBIN

 

Crimson breasted

Perching on a gate

Robin red breast

Looking for a mate

A hardy suitor

Courting and wooing

Proudly displaying

In ritual pursuing

Trying to impress

To attract a wife

So in the spring

There’d be new life

And for his efforts

Amidst winter hard

He gets to appear

On a Christmas card

CHRISTMAS IS NIGH

 

The snow lays deep and crisp

And though the frost is keen

In the clear night sky, the heavens

In all their glory can be seen

And bright there shines a star

Standing out from the jeweled sky

A star that seems to call out

Sweetly “Christmas is nigh”

MR GLISTEN COMES TO TOWN

 

The snow has come its falling fast

It’s time to dance about and cheer

Soon it will be time to build a snowman

I build the same one every year

 

When the snow is lying deep and fresh

I go to the cupboard in my room

Where I get his hat, gloves and scarf

And of course his birchwood broom

 

Mum says “don’t you stay out long”

But she knows that I don’t listen

She knows that it takes some time

To build the perfect Mr Glisten

 

I always start in the same place

And make the body large and round

For his head I roll a smaller ball

Rolling it on the snowy ground

 

Soon he stands up taller than me

Rising up from the fallen snow

Each year it takes a little longer

As like me each year he grows

 

Down his front go pebble buttons

From his neck down to the floor

His stick arms wear his gloves

Which don’t really fit him anymore

 

Then I put on his scarf and hat

His birch broom stands by his side

Marbles to make his eyes shine

And a stick mouth smiling wide

 

Last the carrot nose goes in place

And I step back and a moment spend

Gazing at the happy snowman face

Then I say “Hello my old friend”

IT’S A SNOW DAY

 

The motorway is closed

All the schools are shut

It’s a snow day, it’s a snow day

The kids can stay and play

 

The buses aren’t running

The car won’t start

It’s a snow day, it’s a snow day

We can stay and play

 

The gritter’s never did the job

The salt’s still in the bin

It’s a snow day, it’s a snow day

No work for us today

 

It’s bad for the economy

For us all to stay at home

It’s a snow day, it’s a snow day

Hip, hip hooray