For some, the festive season chills
and cloaks the world in white
while children ride down friendly hills
Those pleasures that delight.
But half a year moved on from there
the sun replaces cold
as barbecue smoke fills the air
and romances unfold.
Would seem the rightful time of year
to bring again that sharing mood
inviting those you hold so dear
to share the love and share the food
but Christmas means much more than that
its meanings will endear
good will to all that you may meet
at any time of year.
Author notes
Let not the mood of yule decay
as weeks slide swiftly past
Revive the joys of Christmas day
and make those feelings last.
A contest entry
- Christmas In July by Violinstrings.
600 points, ended August 7, 2007, 8 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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this is a celebration becoming very popular in Australia, possibly 'invented' by ex-pats from cooller climates. I rather like it as to me even after 30+ years in Oz - it feels right.
September is the annoying month when the shops begin to fill and so by the time December comes we are heartily sick of it all (in some cases). Your poem (sorry I digressed) speaks of the real meaning of christmas - time for those we love at any time of year. A well-deserved winner! Von Brisbane
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it is a good idea!!
I love the way you wrote about christmas.
it has very good style. your use of language for rhyme and rhthym is well done -
A fine idea! MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Joe -
Yeah. I do think that the happiness we see in christmas, should and sometimes is moved and reflected in the summer time. As a kind of christmas in july. It's a good thing, since everybody seems to be happier and more open at christmas time - it would be nice to see that throughout the entire year.
Wow I talk too much. Oh well, you said a lot in this and that got me talking! hehe
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PRESENTS!...heehee
We drink cocoa on the porch at the shore and play Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas'. I always liked Christmas in July, and you give me another reason to love it...thanks! Just a teensy thing...second stanza, last line reads a bit off rhythm to me, maybe try...'and new romance unfolds'...not perfect, but the timing seems a bit smoother without changing the meaning?...So good to have you back, Poet. Peace, Rhonda
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