For the season, from http://www.41051.com/xmaslyrics/hollyjolly.html.
from A Holly Jolly Christmas / by Johnny Marks
Oh ho
the mistletoe
hung where you can see
Author: Michele Pizarro Harman
DPF / Sears
For the season, with the magic of backwards time travel, from http://www.41051.com/xmaslyrics/midnight.html.
from It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / by Edmund Sears
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold!
Peace on the earth, good will to men
DPF / Leithauser
PIA: from December 31, 2014.
For the passing year, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from In My Last Past Life / by Hailey Leithauser
a forest and love and a river, and grief
was a ghost hidden green in the leaves,
an echo off cliffs that bound back the sea
DPF / Merrill
For Mr. Merrill, who I met once at a Los Angeles performance of his play which may have been The Image Maker: A Play in One Act; this poem is a concrete poem in its proper form, a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree. Here is one place in which the poem may be found: http://onwardspoetry.blogspot.com/2009/02/christmas-tree-by-james-merrill.html.
from Christmas Tree / by James Merrill
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up.
I could assent to that. For honestly,
It did help to be wound in jewels, to send
Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sable that cloaked me head to foot.
Over me then they wove a spell of shining–
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel,
Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T,
Two staring eyes.
DPF / Fishback
For all those perfecting the skill of perfect packaging for those of us taking the material seriously at this time of year that glimmers on many levels, from poetryfoundation.org.
from A Copywriter’s Christmas / by Margaret Fishback
The Twenty-fifth is imminent
And every known expedient
Designed for making Christmas pay
Is getting swiftly under way
DPF / Piercy
For another holiday of the season, Hanukkah, from poetryfoundation.org. The poem may be found at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57592 .
from Season of skinny candles / by Marge Piercy
When even the moon
starves to a sliver
of quicksilver
the little candles poke
holes in the blackness.
DPF / Castillo
For the season, from poetryfoundation.org. The poem may be found at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53741.
from Christmas, 1970 / by Sandra M. Castillo
We assemble the silver tree,
our translated lives,
its luminous branches,
numbered to fit into its body.
place its metallic roots
to decorate our first Christmas.
DPF / Frost
For the trees, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Christmas Trees / by Robert Frost
He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
My woods—the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.
I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas Trees.
DPF / Williams
For those who carry heavy bags this time of year, and for the children, and for those who celebrate this particular holiday and for those who don’t, may they receive mail from near and far as well this month, from http://www.christmas-time.com/ct-christmaspostman.htm.
from Christmas Postman / by Alan Williams
| Here comes the welcome Christmas postman His cautious post-van skidding down the snow bound lane Now up our fresh cleared path he strides With Christmas greetings once again |
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| It must be nice for those inside With garlands hung on every side With warmth and cheer and more beside And Christmas cards from far and wide |
DPF / Rossetti
For the season, from http://www.christmas-time.com/bunchofholly.htm.
from A Bunch of Holly / by Christina Rossetti
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But give me holly, bold and jolly,
Honest, prickly, shining holly; Pluck me holly leaf and berry For the day when I make merry. |
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