Have you ever heard sweet, swinging Christmas bells,
Ringing bells,
Singing bells,
Caroling over satin snow,
Echoes carrying clear and low,
And felt the chill air burst aglow,
And breathed the sudden surge of hope their melody foretells?
Have you ever heard the trolling Christmas bells,
Tolling bells,
Rolling bells,
From steeples crouched in hidden glens,
Subtle as the wings of wrens
Thrumming barely heard amens,
And not discerned their undercurrent, fervid heart-beat swells?
Have you ever heard the sounding Christmas bells,
Rounding bells,
Rebounding bells,
Whiffed peppermint and new-cut pine,
See moon-lit snowdrifts crest and shine,
Watched Christmas icons intertwine,
And not luxuriated in its sights and sounds and smells?
Author notes
Option 1: I Hear the Bells
A contest entry
- HAPPY CONTEST. My first contest only 1 rule! must rhyme. by K1r5ty.
900 points, ended December 29, 2007, 21 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - One Last Xmas Contest, preferably for rhymed poems by ecrivain01.
650 points, ended January 3, 2008, 16 entries
Gold trophy winner
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335 points, ended December 27, 2007, 6 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - What is the Joy of Christmas time? by Jasmine Minx.
750 points, ended January 9, 2008, 9 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Sounds in Words by JM Kenyon.
525 points, ended December 25, 2007, 8 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Joy to the world!!! 1,000 christmas poems wanted!!! by Elvenfairy.
3265 points, ended March 1, 2008, 141 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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the sound of christmas bells is something I very rarely hear. They are not common things where I live. The only christmas bells you hear are the Salvation Army santas outside the stores. I've never heard bells ringing in christmas morning. I wish I had.
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Congrats on the well deserved gold Micol! Your imagery of the church bells was marvelous. The rhyme was crafted to perfection and the flow was quite enjoyable.
The style was an eye catcher as well.
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excellent job. I'm not a big reader of any kind of holiday poems so it was unexpected to find such a fluid, fabulously flowing piece here A great deal of that fluidity comes from sound techniques that compliment the rhymes.
s and best wishes always... ~Genie~
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Thank you for the gracious comment and for the bronze. Much appreciated.
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This is an interesting poem and I'm glad you entered it in my contest. I wish during my childhood that i did hear these things but i never have. My family isnt religous and we don't live by any churches that would do this in the morning. Thank you for describing this.
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Much of the poem is imagination; much comes from playing for Christmas on the organ at church, using the chimes; some from being on a college campus that played the carillon several times a day; and some from spending a couple of years in northern Germany, where the snow was remarkable. And part Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells." Put everything together and this emerges.
Thank you for your comments and the contest.
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You do have a way ...
with words, and your rhyming is always so good. Sometimes I feel a trifle dissatisfied with mine after reading yours. This is an excellent poem here.
Thanks for entering and Happy Holidays. -
Excellent ...
I love it.
Thanks for entering and Happy Holidays.
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O Holy Night!
I certainly "luxuriated" in this fragrant formula. It literally is drenched in wonderful descriptives intrinsic to the season. I raise a cup of nog!
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Cup of nog appreciated and returned!
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Outstanding Christmas poem--what I liked best about this poem is the music and the images--how it was possible to bring forth the different senses (peppermint, smell and taste; bells, hearing). Good luck in the contest!
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Thanks. You zeroed in on just what I was hoping when I wrote it...the senses, the senses, the senses.
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thank you for entering my contest!!! Love christmas time!!! the imagery was beautiful and the way it has been written it very good also! Good luck in my contest x
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And thanks in return for the contest, the reading, and the comments. All much appreciated.
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This poem rang a bell! (sorry, bad pun) I love it the meter is perfect and the image is delightful.
Love,
Amera♥
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As long as it didn't ring the same one(s) that hit E.A. Poe, whose "Bells" was never far from memory while this one came into being. Thanks for your comments. Glad you enjoyed it.
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