Thursday, December 19, 2019

Wishes for Christmas and New Year 2020

Here are some Christmas poems from years past, with best wishes for Christmas and for the whole New Year 2020. Let us all be filled with love, gratitude, forgiveness, and generosity in a spirit of  Love.  Forget the darkness, focus on what's sparkling bright, love and laughter!



Good News

Did you know that Christmas is
Love, Love, Love, only Love to
be given, shared and cherished?
When baking together, hands
covered in flour, your fingertips
sweetened with chopped figs,
or roughened from wrapping
hundreds of tamales for family
dinner, while the honeyed voice
of Nat King Cole asks you to have
yourselves a merry, little Christmas.

Love means sharing a laugh
at the antics of the dog that runs
in circles on the lawn, so happy
to be free - without leash, without
orders to sit, roll, obey the master.
Love is a quiet moment of writing
the sweetest of wishes to be mailed
far, far away – this year even further. 
Love is a letter filled affection, kind 
feelings, gentle words that glisten 
with happiness & warmth.

(c) Maja Trochimczyk 2018




A Music Box Christmas



I wind the spring on the music box

Silvery specks swirl in the snow globe



The twinkling of “We wish you a Merry Christmas” fills the air

Santa on the rooftop falls into the chimney.

Are you ready for the holidays?  With Scottish whisky cake

Polish makowiec, American apple pie? Will you cook

Tamales on Christmas Eve, your family gathered

Around steaming pots, laughter mixed with hearty flavors?

Will you roast turkey with fixings on Christmas Day?

Will you nibble slices of chocolate oranges, after unwrapping gifts,

Will you taste walnuts and sesame snaps from your stockings?



I wind the spring on the music box

Silvery specks swirl in the snow globe

Memories of home swirl before me



I make cranberry sauce with pears and apples

The way my Mom taught me. Do I still know

How to chop figs and dates into finely ground poppy seeds

Boiled in milk, re-fried with honey? The favorite flavors of childhood,

Float away with OgiÅ„ski’s polonaise, Farewell to the Homeland.

Under blazing sun of California, I still taste the exotic desserts

Of Poland’s eastern borderlands, where cultures mixed

And worlds mingled – Poles, Lithuanians, Tartars, Jews –

Cornflower blue skies, shimmering gold of rye fields.



I wind the spring on the music box

Silvery specks swirl in the snow globe

I make a promise to myself I will not break

 

This Christmas, I’ll read a novel, wrapped in a plush red blanket

And a Santa hat. I will walk alone in the park, come back

To the empty house and watch The Lord of the Rings,

The epic battles of the elements, good versus evil,

Good versus evil  - twirling and waltzing - the silvery specks

Dance in the snow globe. I sing along “We wish you

A Merry Christmas”  thinking of the Christmas play

My daughter an Angel waving a green pine bough

Singing, in a sweet chorus of children’s voices:

“We swish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”



© 2015 by Maja Trochimczyk








1 comment:

  1. Different ways to celebrate but the love & spirit of holy days permeates all. Have a blessing-filled holiday season, everyone, and thanks for the lovely poetry, Maja.

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