December Poem of the Month

Here's a little, child-like poem for Advent. Enjoy!


Wish List

I need Christmas trees and Christmas beads
to decorate my house and me;
gingerbread and sugar plums
and draughts of honey mead.

I need glitter made of gold dust,
sweet strings of ruby-fruits,
cider spiced with citrus peel,
and reindeer-fur-lined boots

for scattering about the floor
and looping on the stairs
and sipping with a flock of friends
and tramping through the stars.

I need labyrinths of ribbons
to tie up my many needs;
I need an angel for my treetop—
and a change of heart in me.




"Wish List" by Sørina Higgins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. This means that you can copy and distribute the work if you will not receive any commercial gain; that you can use the work in a new creative way (song lyrics, dramatic production, visual display), again, if you receive no commercial gain; and any other use that does not make you any money--as long as you do not change any of the words of the original text. Also, the author would like to be notified of any uses of her poem. Thank you.