Tag Archives: Christmas poems

there’ll be nothing but coal in the tiny stockings of these iambic feet

Posted on November 17, 2020 by whimsygizmo

this poem is more naughty than nice, spicy syllables laced with ghost  -pepper, ancho and then carelessly t o s s e d  in a mean serrano poblano moon sauce.  :: written for poetic asides November chapbook challenge.

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joy

Posted on December 19, 2017 by whimsygizmo

  …. twinkled lights making wishing stars of every ………..-day things.     ..

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when heaven and nature sing

Posted on December 18, 2017 by whimsygizmo

, ………{joyful, joyful} we ponder mangers, …………..kings and {ever, always} …………………………..stars.   ..        

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Waking Up Older

Posted on December 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Winter floats in soft, with the scent of pine and rain and I long to shed this aching skin, learn stillness. ………silence. You came down to hold these storms (all is calm) in tiny hands, light of the world … Continue reading →

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Holly-Berry Bells

Posted on December 15, 2014 by whimsygizmo

.. Love me tender, tinder tinsel me; de -cadence spun into song. Wrap my heart, re -bound in silver nemesis and peppermint sway. Carol me loose, over river and woods. Hot cocoa-jingle me into Santa’s way -ward sleigh. ..  

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