San Juan Silver Stage Online • Poetry
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An Old Fashioned Christmas

A real old-fashioned Christmas
Is something to remember,
When the snow comes falling softly,
Filling branches of the spruce,

And the sky is dark and cloudy
In the last part of December,
'Til the flakes again drift earthward,
Soft as down from Mother Goose.

In the early morning stillness,
Christmas Day comes creeping in,
And the children start their
Stirring from their beds.

And they rush with great excitement,
Voices raising quite a din,
For on this day for certain,
You will find no "Sleepy Heads!"

The Christmas tree stands waiting
With the packages piled up.
There are surprises lurking
In each box.

There are cookies for the taking,
And hot tea in every cup,
And new everything
From drummer boys to sox.

Sweet aromas from the kitchen
Drift into the dining room
As a turkey fills the oven's
Inner space.

And the volume of the merriment
Crescendos to a boom,
As contentment and pure
pleasure
Shows on each and every face.

It's the day when families gather
From the corners of the earth.
It's the day that means
The most to every heart.

The day we take to celebrate
The Savior's lowly birth,
And draw strength from
one another
'Til again it's time to part.

copyright Nona Kelley Carver

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