Mix is mixed, cake tin fixed
Cake’s in the tin, heat on and in!
Ready for the marzipan, brushed with extra shiny jam
Icing rolled, clean and white
Rudolph with his nose so bright.
Our cake for Christmas is complete
With footprints from four snowy feet
A Christmas wish for goodness sake
All baked with joy in Christmas cake!
Merry Christmas Everyone! 🌲🎅
Political Christmas approaches
The stables are filled with the bray
Of animalistic impressionists
Who think they control us today.
But know in your heart it’s the small things –
The smiles we exchange in the street
The warmth of a hand on a cold day
A kindness, a cuddle, a treat –
It’s these things that fill up our stockings
And give us the strength to go on,
Let’s share out our loving this Christmas
And hurry glad tidings along.
I reached here earlier today,
lit our fire to guide you homeward,
I built it bright and warmly wait
The return of your footfall.
Amongst Christmas preparations
In the twilight of a year
We’ll kiss beneath the mistletoe wreath
Hang holly in the hall.
This Christmas birth, twelve days of love
One tree, one Angel dear
Our family’s arms, our human forms
One day when heaven calls.
Come in, come on, come Christmas,
How sweet the choir draws near,
How we’ll embrace and feel the grace
And learn to love us all.
We are baubles on a tree
as eclectic as can be
sharing time and bending branches
hanging on and taking chances
delicately we deck the year
with brilliant colours, life and cheer.
Each of us has their own story
sadness, love, success and glory
old and new, each orb is precious
countless special shiny treasures.
Beautiful diversity –
bless and keep our Christmas tree.
When Christmas comes so loud and cheer
to decorate another year,
unwrap us from our worldly ways
and let us spend these next few days
reflecting on the love we feel,
when hands are held and hearts reveal
the gifts of friendship and support.
– Let’s fill our stockings with kind thought.
In the countdown to this Christmas,
in the mighty preparation,
the shopping rush, consumer crush,
I had the odd sensation
of hanging grim to fortune’s wheel,
defying gravity,
so thank you for the chance to land
beneath your Christmas tree.
For today I see the little things
that slip beneath the wheel,
take time to find the detail,
the care behind the meal.
And when again I venture,
I’ll walk slow, with a smile,
remembering how good it feels
to go the extra mile.
Left prone in the market place,
I have recently succumbed to
minor shopping, relinquishing control in pursuit of joy.
Post operation Christmas,
I may require resuscitation by stringent economic measures.
Saved in a matchbox
tenderly unwrapped today:
our Christmas angel.
How can we have Christmas at our house?
The rooms look like there was a riot
the table’s strewn over with gas bills
and the reindeer are all on a diet.
.
How can we have Christmas at our house?
The tree is hung over and wonky
our turkey ran off with the tinsel
and we never did order the donkey.
.
How can we have Christmas at our house?
It’s too cold to put out the fire
so Santa will struggle to reach us
and so will the heavenly choir.
.
How can we have Christmas at our house?
but wait, well then maybe we can
there’s a bucket of love up our chimney
and hugs in the fridge and the pan.
.
There’s sweet figgy pudding and music
our voices are merry and bright
we’ll hide nuts in a massive red stocking
and drink ginger wine late at night.
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So let’s all have Christmas at our house
we’ll cook up a magical banquet
and after the games and the laughter
we’ll cuddle up under our blanket.
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We all know the New Year is waiting
and we have to work hard and dig deep
but beautiful friendships will give us
the gift of this Christmas to keep.
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