A Christmas Wish Remembered Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

all winter long in a Christmas day
we dreamed that we could make it stay
my sister and I, no stockings put by yet

but orange and peppermint laden, chocolate coins
in a golden net


and the Christmas Tree in our living room,
live on! not only in our song
though caroling, caroling, schottische too

in our brand new Christmas shining shoes
we danced our dream in the middle of snow,
wished hard, closed our eyes


reciting all the facts we know
of time and its enchantments
oh Christ child cradled in the hay

look down on this our Christmas day
and turn it toward eternity's sway
that we your children, may display

true merriment, forever.


mary angela douglas 23 december 2018; rev.17 january 2019