A Christmas Poem (For Lyn, et al.)
by H.E. Mantel

…Have occasioned

I think to have been decor-

rating The Tree, it’s

 

piney quills & tines  

dressing in glassy festoons

weightless baubles of

 

tins-led Christmas-candy

colors, like porcelain

fragile-fine, hooked canes

 

& dangled barber-pole-paean

peppermint-stick Memories

of savored hangon

 

trinkets & heirlooms

looming like a twinkling

tapestry ’round

 

wreaths of snowy popped-corn

dangling—“No, darlings, that’s not

for eating…”  Yes, I

 

have occasioned the

rows of bubbling light-tubes

like glowing chains of

 

warm caterpillars

inching-on toward the Manger’s

Star of a chrysalis

 

Christmas Joy to Light-

Up the World!  Oh Yes, I have

occasioned The Tree

 

Breathing in Ecstasy…

And the Wonder, of this from

a Guy whose Imprimitur

 

might have been

Tannenbaum!

 

                         H.e.m.

                         12.8.MMvi. 

                          Noel.

 

“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, G-D bless Us, Every One!”
(Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol). And…

A “…Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!”
(Clement Clarke Moore, “Twas The Night Before Christmas”).

Amen.

 

H.E. MANTEL, an Aquarian male, poet/writer/editor, published in print and online, including Ascent Aspirations, Shampoo, The Apocalypse, A Hero’s Journey Anthology, Poetry By Moonlight Anthology, World Artist Network Magazine, Poetic Spit, Poetry Soup (Awarded), Retort Magazine, Lit-Up Magazine, Poetry of Food Anthology, Wordgathering, Poetry Flyer, and others. He is awaiting the publication of his poetry collections, ‘Bananas’ On The Moon… A Collection Of Revisionist Haiku and Sophistigates: A New Book of New Poetry. He is a musician-vocalist, an avid reader, athlete, and devotee of holistic health through vegan lifestyle, ecology, and writing to help our earth to head. He resides in Florida.

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