The Christmas flower
Festively untypical
Having
poisonous milk
And being
tropical
But scarlet
petal-like leaves
Make them
appear more topical
The Christmas flower
Festively untypical
Having
poisonous milk
And being
tropical
But scarlet
petal-like leaves
Make them
appear more topical
The Christmas berry
Evergreen
and spiny
With
flowers of every hue
From white
to blue
With
abundant berries
Bright red
as cherries
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
The Christmas Begonia
The
winter-bloomer
Whose large
pink flowers
Light up
the winter hours
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
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
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
Fresh snow absorbed all sounds As it fell steadily on the landscape The quiet becoming eerily magical All hushed, peaceful and pri...