From all of us at Tweetspeak Poetry, we wish you warm and happy holidays, however you celebrate the season. We’re grateful for the way your presence here helps us, as a community, give good gifts to the world.
See you in January—for a new year of bringing generosity, beauty, and fun to all the places we live and work and play.
Holidays
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;—
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are;— a Fairy Tale
Of some enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as a landscape in a dream.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Photo by Robert Tadlock, Creative Commons license via Flickr. Longfellow poem is in the public domain.
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Maureen says
Another year of Tweetspeak Poetry come to an end. Wishing all of you a marvelous holiday season and the brightest of prospects in the coming New Year.
Will Willingham says
Wishing you joyous holidays as well, Maureen. Thank you for your continued presence in our community. 🙂
Katie says
Christmas Carol by Kenneth Grahame
Villagers all, this frosty tide,
Let your doors swing open wide,
Though wind may follow and snow betide,
Yet draw us in by your fire to bide:
Joy shall be yours in the morning.
Here we stand in the cold and the sleet,
Blowing fingers and stamping feet,
Come from far away, you to greet –
You by the fire and we in the street –
Bidding you joy in the morning.
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Best of wishes and hopes to all at Tweetspeak!
Will Willingham says
Thanks for sharing this poem, Katie. Happiest of holidays to you. 🙂