Christmas Potpourri

So Christmas time is almost here,

  Time for us to spread some cheer.

And think about some times long gone,

  And other Christmas days bygone.

Like that day in Forty-Nine,

  Dad a-runnin’ on that Northern line.

A whistle blow would tell us when,

  Our Christmas would at last begin.

Or Christmas in a foreign land,

  Before that Asian war began.

Or baskin’ in the Tropic sun,

  Rompin’ in the surf for fun.

First Christmas with a newborn baby,

  She’s a doll, there is no maybe.

Cuddlin’ with the one I love,

  Sent to me from up above.

Holed up in a snow-bound house,

  We love Winter we espouse.

“Heilige Nacht” in an old stone church,

    A Tanenbaum where candles perch.

A Blue Norther chills all the land,

  But Ohio beckons with her hand.

We press on through the Winter blast,

  Snow pack roads not so fast.

My parents are so long gone,

  But here I have a Dad and Mom.

Now Grandkids bless our home so sweet,

  Each of them is such a treat.

Our wish for you though far or near,

  Is that this day will bring you cheer.

LDT Christmas 2004

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