Request: Christmas/winter holiday poems

[pyreneeees.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone! A friend just asked me for a poem that she could handwrite and put in a frame for Christmas, and I was personally horrified to realize I don't know any contemporary Christmas or winter poems. Gah! Please inundate me with all your favorite winter/Christmas/holiday poems, and I shall give you this lovely, hopeful Anne Sexton poem in return. Happy start of winter!

Snow
by Anne Sexton

Snow, blessed snow,
comes out of the sky
like bleached flies.
The ground is no longer naked.
The ground has on its clothes.
Trees poke out of sheets
and each branch wears the sock of God.

There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
I bite it.
Someone once said:
Don't bite till you know
if it's bread or stone.
What I bite is all bread,
rising, yeasty as a cloud.

There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail.

Comments

Re: Beautiful and one of my all time favourites

[pythia.livejournal.com]

I love it, especially the theory that it's about Santa Claus. Hehe.

Re: Beautiful and one of my all time favourites

[windowwasher88.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I'd never thought of that before, but it's PERFECT!

That is all kinds of wonderful. Thanks for enlightening my day.