CHRISTMAS & ANNUAL EVENTS
1 To write poems for cards in advance, select an occasion, or series of occasions, such as:
Anniversary, Birthday
Christmas, Belated Christmas
New Year
Religious Christian/Other religion such as Jewish Hanukah/Secular
Make a small file to store your first drafts. Write down rhymes or rhythms or free verse ideas.
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ANIMALS, PEOPLE, PLACES, TRANSPORT
Animals/Birds🦊🦄🐔🐄🐑🐪🐘🐿🦕🐓🦃🦢🦜🦉🐧.
Beloved Cats, Dogs naughty or missed, pets, annoying or cute.
Animals: flocks of sheep, manger, cows, sheep, donkeys👀
Domestic animals: birds, cats, dogs, rabbits
Reindeer
Transport: Sleigh, husky dogs, horses
Season: sun; snow; before and after.
Location: Middle East, Jerusalem
Humans
Central People: baby Jesus/Jesus/ Mary💖
Visitors: three Magi, Shepherds, visitors, strangers, passers by
Garden, yard, trees, wood, forest✔
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FOOD, DRINK AND DINING ROOM
Food; Turkey
Dessert: Christmas pudding,
Tea time: Christmas cake, yule log, stollen, panettone
Wine: mulled wine, red wine, pink, white wine, bubbly, Champagne
Dinner, supper, midnight feast🎉
table, chair, tablecloth
buffet❤
feast
candle, candle light
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SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS
Gifts: parcel, present, wishes🌹🎁
Photographs Merriment: jokes, laughter,
Go through a dictionary of synonyms to find alternative words.
For example,
tree, forest, branch, leaves, wood, fir, pine, cones
adore, appreciate, cherish, love, lust, love, marriage, show affection, worship
donate, gift, give, loan, present, share
family, love, mate, kith and kin, extended family, brothers and sisters, in-laws, significant other, mother, father, Dad, Mum, granddad, grandmother, grandchild, son, daughter, sweetie, offspring descendants
Go through a rhyming dictionary to find rhymes:
For example:
bed, head, bedhead, red, read, said, 👍
angel, bell, dell, Del, fell, heaven and hell, sell, tell, well
all, ball, call, fall, gall, hall, mall, pall, small, tall
bring, ding, ringing, ring, sing, singing, wing, winging, queen, king😃
Christmas day, far away, bay, gay, hay, holiday, jay, lay, may, neigh, pay, ray, say, tray, way
be, yet to be, Dee, fee, free, glee, he, me, see, she, tea, tee, three, tree, we, Zee🌴☘
wreath, beneath, heath, teeth
gift, lift, miffed, rift, sift, 😍
live, forgive
mice, nice, slice, spice🥠🍿🍓🍏🥕
above, love💖
prove, smooth, soothe
bow, doe, foe, go, ho-ho, Jo, Joe, loh, low, mow, know, no, row, show, snow, tow, woe
fleece, peace, 💋
calm, harm
been, dean, Dene, jeans, teens, lean, mean, teen, green, queen, seen, screen, wean,
Cream, scream
cope, dope, hope
awoke, bloke, joke, mope, nope, Pope, rope, soap, woke😊🎉
clappy, happy
clap, mishap, tap
go, know, mistletoe😜
heaven sent, ornament, well spent✔
beer, clear, fear, year💕
Read your poem to another person or two or three to get their ideas, objections and corrections and additions to the subjects, recipients, people and events described.
Look up other Christmas cards to see their messages.
Find your previous year's Xmas photo for inspiration.
Useful Websites
dictionary.com
https://messages.365greetings.com/
About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, fashionista. Please share links to your favourite posts or one or more of the blogs
Books include Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock/Cassell)
Quick Quotations (Lulu.com)
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Christmas - Crackers!
by Angela Lansbury
When white snow paints rooftops and icy ground
When goodwill glitters grumbles all around
When sweet singing fills the frosty air
Ice skating, theatre, dark nights at the fair
When the golden bells are ringing
When the well-dressed choirs are singing
When people madly, badly dance in red and green
When parcels, ribbons, bows are seen
When the winter trees are green
Bright lights are white, or new and blue
When the seasons turn around
That's when thoughts turn from them to you
I think of a wide-eyed laughing child
I think of teens, parties so wild
I think of happy times we had
I think of you and I feel glad
Whether you're near or far away
Those best of times will always stay
That cinema inside I see
Re-plays happy days for you and me
So thank you for fond memories
For over-eating festive food, and sleeping after toasts with fizz
Our photos show the safety mask we know
Thoughts of bad and good old days make new days glow.
