watercolor by Marcy Jarvis
Country and City Mouse
Christmas in the country means you're hooking up the team
of horses to the sleigh so you can hear the sleigh bells ring
as through the snowy woods you go to pick the Christmas tree
and greens to decorate the porch and make your Christmas wreath.
There's sure to be a snowball fight, and if it's not too late,
we'll meet up at the old mill pond where everyone will skate.
Then afterwards, there's hot cocoa and peppermint sticks, tea
to drink around the woodstove in upstate New York country.
Christmas in the city means you're checking out displays
that show up in the windows of Saks Fifth, Bergdorf's, Macy's,
whose animated Santa Land's a must for all to see.
A hot dog, roasted chestnuts from the street vendors to eat,
a visit to Saint Patrick's where the holy family
is gathered for the angel choir sweetly caroling.
Then wind it up by ferry boat and Lady Liberty;
toss a coin in Santa's pot for the Salvation Army.
Author notes
my own illustration
A contest entry
- Christmas Pre-writes by Judith Chandler.
700 points, ended December 22, 2008, 16 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Thanks for entering. You've created a great visual while reading although you have your pic
good job and good luck
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What a wonderful memory! Going to Maple Meadows as a child is a fairytale that will always be treasured.
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Nice picture you've painted...
Thanks for sharing!
Best wishes in the contest and always.
Write on!
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Nice drawing and a very enjoyable account of an idyllic Christmas. I like the way you placed your poem in a definite location.
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Beautiful work and thought for this contest.
I love your drawing here! I wish you well in this
contest and hope that you do well with it.
Thanks for sharing it and good luck to you here!
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kudos on the drawing, that's pretty neat.
i really liked this poem --- a warm & fuzzy holiday feel, and it was cool to see the contrast between city/country.
i wish people still hooked up teams of horses and such.
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What a lovely story to share with us, i love the vision implimented into this piece, so content in fun,
thank you for this entry,, good luck
VOE
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i really loved this
has so much cheer to it and shows the truth of happiness in Christmas
i love how it takes about one place and without the title it would show that. great work
good luck in the contest
loved it.
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This is wonderful and I like how you included both the city and the country. Love the picture too. Thanks for posting in my contest.
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I loved the comparison and the wonderful way they both sounded' like lots of Christmas fun. The illustration is marvelous. Good luck.
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I never saw Santa Land in NY, but had some decent ones in the Mall's in Minnesota. In Frankfurt I saw my first German one in the Trainstation - for Kinder Schokolade
. Maybe you can do an Altensteig / Herrenberg one. Enough contrast there? Or do we need to visit Santa in Stuttgart? He's everywhere simultaneously, you know. He's magic.
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Love this, and the illustration is amazing, wow
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I love the comparison of the Christmas season in two different setting, within the same state. But, what I loved the most is that you made both settings sound so traditional, whithout one being better than the other.
Great poem. And beautiful illustration, by the way!
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You drew that? You must do it for a living...
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