I need some ideas of Christmas Poetry?

Question

I need some ideas of Christmas Poetry. Some of your own samples, or genre's not recommendations of books or people to talk to. I want your own Ideas please.

Answer 1

Yes, write your own Christmas poem, at least one each year.

My wife and I purchase a Christmas card to send to friends; then I write a poem to go along with the card.

Here's one from this year:

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Symmetry

Holy days,
I believe,
are holy
only when
we erect


one red bridge


to connect
this edge with .
the other,
snow with snow,
soul to soul,

artifact,
and its faint
reflection,
what’s above,
what’s below,

that reaches
from what is
to what we
all our lives
stretch to see:


( love joy peace )


Epiphany

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Please understand that Y!A will not permit me to put the lines in the shape they should appear, more or less centered on the page. Furthermore the words Symmetry and Epiphany should both be in large and small caps, and the lines "one red bridge" and "(love joy peace)" should be printed in red and stretched out longer across the page.

You might notice, too, how I scatter a few rhymes and half-rhymes throughout the poem rather than use a regular rhyme scheme and how I play around with alliteration, assonance, and consonance. I just don't like poems at Christmas time to sound too sing-songy. We already get enough of that in elevator music, from Halloween on!

Here's one other one, from 1997. I've done this every year since 1979.

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Here We Come A-Caroling, Again

Christmas is a hodgepodge,
a love letter from our past,
miscellany of Victorian sentiment,
homage to the Old Masters,
and Rube-Goldberg resourcefulness
in which each year we indulge.

Christmas is a collage
of bits and pieces salvaged
from the scrap bag of our years,
fitted together, strand by strand
by strand: a bird of paradise
building its nest in time.

Christmas is a montage,
patchwork, melange, pot pourri,
a big fruitcake of a holiday,
and if we get it right, play it
from the heart, this hodgepodge
once again becomes a work of art.

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I share these with you ONLY to encourage you to try your hand at the same kind of thing -- in your own special way. It could be verse!

Answer 2

Snowman
No hot weather
Oreos in your hot coco
White and fluffy snow