A Bah Humbug Primer: For the Sunday Whirl Wordle #634

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A Bah Humbug Primer

If a White Christmas isn’t your “thing,”
If popcorn is something you eat but don’t string
into chains for the tree, and if twinkling lights
and tinsel and candy canes are dreaded sights,
if you are weary of seasonal cheer,
lest a stray chorus should fall on your ear
of “White Christmas” or “Jingle Bells,” close tight your door,
seal up your window, or you’ll hear more
joyous renditions you feel you’ve heard
over and over until they’re absurd.

If you grow feverish thinking of shopping,
then break out in chills—back and forth, without stopping,
then put on the skids or else you might pop.
Don’t make me send over the Bah Humbug Cop!
With unwavering calm, put dreams into action,
lest you commit  a Yuletide infraction.

There’s no law that says that you have to do
holidays that you happen to rue.
Hop a bus, then a plane. Find a tropical isle.
Take off to Arabia. Sail up the Nile.
There are plenty of spots without holly and snow—
places where Santa Claus dares not to go.

Just because some of us love our tradition,
doesn’t mean you will be tried for sedition
if you neglect to put up a tree.
So perk up your ears and listen to me.
There is a truth that everyone knows.
The best gifts of all don’t come tied up in bows.
Friends we can trust and friends we hold dear
We celebrate every day of the year!!!

The Sundaywhirl prompt words today are: dream white joyous twinkle waver chains stray chorus might chill feverish sight

21 thoughts on “A Bah Humbug Primer: For the Sunday Whirl Wordle #634”

  4. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

    AS AN ADULT I NEVER DID, AFTER SANTA LET ME DOWN AND I DID NOT GET THAT DAMN BB-GUN, I SAID TO HECK WITH IT , A TUMBLEWEED, KUMQUAT TREE OR EVEN A FRANGIPANI IS JUST AS GOOD AS AN EXPENSIVE BEAT-UP FIR TREE. which reminds me it is time for my annual viewing of “A Christmas Story”, it always gets me into the spirit. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY~!

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      1. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

        Thanks Lady, I wish I could be down to have a glass of you “Recipe” I have tried it but, as usual, per those Christmas Trees, and my poetry, I never follow the directions. I substituted the orange juice with Mango Nectar. It was great, It is called “Langers Organic Mango Nectar” from Costco. In fact I am sipping on some of it right now while watching “A Christmas Story” it would not be Christmas Eve if I did not watch it once again and get belly laughs each year, though I may have seen it a hundred times. So MARRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU AS WELL~!

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  7. anntonyjandc's avataranntonyjandc

    The ending about friends just gets it for me. Yes. My friend! Super talented. You have a natural rhyme/rhythm sense in your genes.

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