For POETS UNITED ~ Poetry Pantry #232 ~ This Year
Christmas Time, Christmas Time and prayers, Prayers for peace, a peaceful refuge, Welcome Light, with lights on trees, Green and white, in coloured deluge; Décor delight diversity diverted; All hope one, all call one, All pray one; Life to begin, or life , to cease? Christmas Time, Healing Time and tremors, Tremors of blasts, killing blasts, Farewell Love, with flags on caskets Red and Blue, in deathly solitude, Sacred silence spirit severed; All around flowers, all fresh now All withered now, none in baskets; Christmas Time Christmas Time and Salvation Salvation, for every nation? Salvation Eternal, end of turmoil in blood and sand, Crimson and cream, a moaning scream, a shattered dream? One for one, each kills one, one by one, till none is none. Christmas Time, Christmas Time and Love; Love for All, a Tolerant Love, With Gifts garlands and Gatherings, Silver and Gold, Young and Old, the Bra...