Sunday, February 20, 2011

Christmas Thoughts

Christmas Thoughts

It reminded me of long ago. 
The smell of pine bough
and candle light
on a cold winter night

with a fire warm we were kept
and in a cold bedroom we slept.

Wondering what the morning would bring
after family had gathered to sing
traditional songs like Holy Night
a tree decorated yet so bright
but the shoulders on which it all stood

was a manger of hay and wood -
the innocence of childhood long gone past
looking back a smile at last.

John Mullinax 2007

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