MERRY BELLS

 

Merry Bells of Christmas

Of genus Uvularia

Whose yellow drooping

Bell-shaped flowers

Brighten the season

CHRISTMAS BELLS

 

Christmas bells

Of Genus Blandfordia

Orange or crimson

Whose large flowers

Brighten the season

RED BREASTED ROBIN

 

Red Breasted Robin

Sitting on the fence

With snow falling

God that bird is dense

 

Sitting out there exposed

Out in all weathers

Trying to look cute

As it freezes its feathers

YOU ARE THE BONNIEST CHILD

 

You are the bonniest child

Cute from head to toe

You melt our hearts

As you joyfully go

For your first time

Out to play in the snow

IN THE BLEAK MID WINTER

I’m not looking for a white Christmas

For my life is already a cold place

Bleak and forbidding

So I have no need of snow

Carpets of white everywhere

Winter fills my every day

My life is perpetual winter

Because you have taken my warmth

You were the heart of me

You sent the blood coursing through me

You were the sun in my sky

Now my life is tundra

And I am just a frozen husk

Too numb to exist 

SNOWFLAKES ON THE DAY

 

Smoke curls from the chimneys,

And dissolves into the grey

Then the clouds in exchange

Release snowflakes on the day

 

Soon the air is full of white flakes

Filtering the sounds of life away

The land is soon under deep snow

Of snowflakes released on the day

OH PRETTY SNOWFLAKE

 

Oh pretty snowflake

Gentle on my face

Oh delicate beauty

Like Belgian lace

Oh pretty snowflake

Thing of grace

You were here

Now not a trace