Love the Day
Is anyone messing with your day,
perhaps smiling as they pitch dismay?
Maybe the news has found something good
and is now working hard to turn it to wood.
Something to chop up and complain about,
how dare someone look up and find a way out.
Please they say, don’t break our frown
wallow with us please, while we flounder and drown.
Sometimes the bad may find a dark corner to fester,
but the prevailing good doth continue to master.
Bads only value is in building dismay,
but the good in your heart can burn that away.
So ignore it well and Love the Day
JTW
Christmas Poem, 2018
Snow on the ground,
a fire in the hearth,
throughout the house
the chatter of mirth.
Smiles abound,
around and around.
The joy of the day in every sound.
Dogs and cats and a tree in the house.
Over stuffed stockings, no room for a mouse.
Carols and bells float through the air,
mixing with aromas sweet and fair.
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas and to all a good night,
as we wait for the New Year for our dreams to take flight.
Christmas Poem 2025
Throughout the year you moan and groan,
Like a dog with his favorite bone.
But no matter what you think or do,
at Christmas time, love, always shines through.
A wink, a smile, a cozy fire,
you have no choice but to cross the wire.
Upon the fire you toss another log,
as you are handed another mug of ‘nog.
With all these smiles being tossed about,
you have no choice, but to twist and shout.
If we could celebrate Christmas six times a year,
this crazy world would be a less a smear.