What better season for love and peace than Christmas? We'll be celebrating it in just a week, and though life happens and we do become jaded, we need to put time aside for the needful..
Mistletoe heralds fertility, longevity, fortune, health and abundance. So what more is there to do than to kiss under it.
This Christmas, offer each other the kiss of peace under a sprig.
No
Mistletoe
The leaves
Enfold
During times
Of trial and woe
Take one in their
Warm embrace
Mistletoe
Open in Yuletide
Welcomes
New life
Within its
Branches
And leaves
Life that
Does not
Die
Its flowers
Beckon
Blooming
With health
And radiance
Holly jolly
Rings in
Tidings of
Fortune and
Promise of
Good
To come
Mistletoe
Leaves that
Stay green
Despite
Pending cold
And frost
Mistletoe
A wreath
That does not
Tell of
Death
But life.
Happy Yuletide and Holidays, everyone.
About the Creator
Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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