Poem: Welcome Christmas

Saltwater Park house
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

Welcome Christmas

by Cynthia Sheridan

Garland tied with festive bow

Crimson candles in a row

O Holy Night of long ago

The holidays are here

Frozen breath in crisp night air

Blackened branches, cold and bare

Sandhill cranes their trumpets blare 

Glad tidings, loud and clear

Fir trees trimmed and stockings hung

‘Welcome Christmas, everyone

The day to gather round has come

With those we hold most dear

Soon the midnight bells will chime

How quickly turn the hands of time

Let us lift a glass to auld lang syne

And the happiest new year!