Christmas Mix

This poem is composed of song titles and/or lyrics from 25 musical artists.
Their names are at the bottom of this post.

 

R eally not a fan
of winter things

I get the cold weather blues
badly

when it’s cold
I’d like to die

or maybe
if I had a river
I could skate away on
I could feel better

but with my luck
I’d probably fall in
and be trapped under ice

oh yeah —
and a long december
forget it

all through the frozen nights
I hear the hounds of winter
and their blood curdling howling

next morning
their footprints in the snow
only serve to remind me
we’re trapped
soon to be snowbound
in the bleak midwinter

I get so depressed
it’s usually a blue christmas

but maybe
if we make it through december
I can let it go

after all
I’ve got my love
to keep me warm
for a cozy little christmas

and the snowfall
is beautiful and —
I believe in father christmas

perhaps this year
it can actually be
a wonderful christmastime

so let the bells ring-out
for christmas now
at the closing of the year

I think I’ll make it
a very merry christmas
and a happy new year

let’s hope it’s a good one
without any fear

*
rob kistner © 2022

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* 25 musical artists whose song titles and/or lyrics featured in this poem
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Counting Crows
Queen
The Moody Blues
Muddy Waters
Bill Monroe
Merle Haggard
Billie Holiday
Idina Menzel
Sting
Metallica
Moby
Ariana Grande
Joni Mitchell
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Manhattan Transfer
Donald Fagan
Hans Zimmer
Greg Lake
Toys Chorus
Katy Perry
James Taylor
Wendy & Lisa
Seal
Elvis

48 thoughts on “Christmas Mix”

  1. LOVE THIS! And most especially the positive ending!!! You did indeed have fun with the prompt 🙂
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    1. Another one of my grievances is heat and humidity. I live in the Pacific Northwest where bitter cold is very rare (40’s), snow happens occasionally but is rare, heat is very rare (70’s -80’s), humidity is essentially non existent, and mosquitos are sparse and only for a few weeks at end of summer. I love it here because it suits all my complaints. Margaret, I love Northern Michigan and when I lived in Cincinnati 35 years ago, My father and I fished N-Mich, N-Minn, and the lakes around Espanola Ontario. But in 1990, the humidity and mosquitos finally drove me, at age 43, to live in Oregon, and fish and hike the pristine lakes/rivers/streams of the mountain wilderness of the Cascade Mountains. My failing health has sadly taken those beloved activities from me. But I absolutely love the weather and social culture of the Pac-NE. At nearly 76, I plan to be here to the end — which given my health, may not be that terribly far off in my future. 🙂

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  11. I can relate. There is definitely a gloominess that comes with Winter and it can be hard to shake. This piece made me think about the song by Joni Mitchell, “River”.

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    1. That is probably because I used her title “River”, and some of the her lyrics of that wonderful song. At the very bottom of my “Christmas Mix” post you will find a list of the 22 musical artists I used as influence in writing the poem.

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  20. Cool mix. I love the “hounds of winter”. Actually I like winter and wish we’d get a little snow but it looks like another brown one is in the making. When there are footprints in the snow, up around the house, and were they peeking in the windows? it gives one pause.

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  21. It took me a little bit to appreciate winter, but I’ve finally come around to it (unless I have to drive in the snow).

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    1. Lived in areas of deep winter freeze, and humid mosquito filled summer bake, for nearly half my 75 years — but not for the past 32. Never going back into such a place. Now if I want to see a snowy wonderland — I simply drive high into the Cascade Mountains.

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