One More Old Poem

Written in 1994

Christmas Carol Chronicles

"Joy came to the world of the elderly pair.
The Cherub gave reason for the season that year.
Frosted windows with star flags for the men "over there"
In search of the good will and to all the earth peace.

Postwar winter wonderlands of frosted snowmen
brought skaters to ponds and sleds to the hills.
"Merry Christmas we wish" sand the toothless first grade
and war weary soldiers made plows of their swords.

Dreams of "White Christmas" just like the ones
were replaced by fake tress ...(On tables they sat),
With glass candles that bubbled, forever it seemed.
now interrupted by neons that flashed. Mother had died.

Hail Marys and Our Fathers kept the anger away
with uniformed siblings she knelt at the stable,
while Elks, Easgles and Knights, who had traveled so far,
brought tiding of joy to the inn with a room.

Away in the manager, no place for their heads
the littlest angels slept all in a row
and ..harking and hearlding...the heavenly hosts
from realms of glory kept the night silent

Turned corners, called Christmas in the pages of life.
Post lessons and memories to the day of all days
with choices of bubbles or neons that that lie or
stars above cradles in the holy night sky.


I promise, this is the last of the old poetry.