Customs say that Christmas colors
Feature red and green:
Reams and reams of dusty paper
Tell what these hues mean.
Newer en vogue Christmas pallettes
Favor blue and silver--
Mildest hints of bracing cold,
Tinselly chills with frosty lure.
"I'm dreaming of a...
...blue, blue Christmas."
Irving wrote of Christmas white,
Decked in sparkling snow;
Here an unplanned black-eyed Susan
Joins planned lemons dressed in yellow.
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| "Susan" on December 1st |
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| Lemons on December 17th Photo by my husband |
Others might await their snow:
Winters here bring liquid flow.
Yet our rain has gone away--
Still not back this holiday.
If the rain falls on us all,
Good and evil both the same*,
What does this prolonged' drought
Say of our respective blame?
Christmas comes, Christmas goes,
Elsewhere as they brave the snows.
Christ's love blankets all our sin:
Someday all that's right will win.
--C. Marie Byars; (c) December, 2020
*Matthew 5:45
This poem forms a triptych with two other poems on our lack of rain:
It partially "twins" with the black-eyed Susan poem below and forms a partial "triptych" with the visuals in all three of these posts:
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2 comments:
Snow and thunder, an odd combination, on Friday morning, although almost all gone by now.
Deuteronomy 32:2:
My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
WE can depend on that!
We did have some rain a few days ago, and what a blessing.
But, yes, God's Word is more faithful than our temporal precipitation.
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