CHRISTMAS BUSH

 

The Christmas bush

Is Australian obviously

And isn’t really a bush at all

It’s in fact a shrub or tree

With red flowers for selection

As Christmas decoration

CHRISTMAS BEGONIA

 

The Christmas Begonia

The winter-bloomer

Whose large pink flowers

Light up the winter hours

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”