Tuesday, 16 August 2022

DECEMBER, DECEMBER

 

December, December

The snow has come

Falling all night long

Kids its time to have some fun

 

December, December

Children playing in the snow

Skating and sledding

Faces all aglow

 

December, December

More snow will come

Then all through the winter

Kids will have more fun

BUT SOFTLY THE MYRIAD SNOW FLAKES FALL

 

But softly the myriad snow flakes fall

These infinite flakes of purest white

Like pure white down of angels wings

Floating gently from heavens height

 

But this is no heaven sent delight

This thing of beauty that cruelly lingers

For harshly touched is the naked earth

When touched by winters icy fingers

CHRISTMAS BOX

 

A common native of Asia

And the Himalayas

The Greeks called

It Sarcococca

“The fleshy berry”

 

We call it Christmas Box

With its large fragrant flowers

Blooming in winter

Making the stark

Christmas garden, merry

CHRISTMAS ROSE

 

Christmas rose

The Evergreen beauty

Winter-blooming flowers

Of white or purplish hue

In wide display

Decorate the European

Landscape at Christmas

CHRISTMAS STAR

 

The Christmas star

Festively untypical

Having poisonous milk

And being tropical

But scarlet petal-like leaves

Make them appear more topical

And star shaped flowers

Are more decoratively typical

CHRISTMAS HOLLY

 

Christmas Holly

Evergreen tree

Christmas Holly

Leaves are prickly

Cut fresh Holly

Full of red berries

Help to make

The season merry

Monday, 15 August 2022

CHRISTMAS GREEN

 

The Christmas green

Festively untypical

It’s just a club moss

With creeping stems

Similar to ferns

With erect branches

It has no scarlet hues

Nor star shaped flowers

It’s quite unremarkably

Just another evergreen

FRESH SNOW ABSORBED ALL SOUNDS

  Fresh snow absorbed all sounds As it fell steadily on the landscape The quiet becoming eerily magical All hushed, peaceful and pri...