Festive and Cheerful Winter Holiday Poetry

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Enjoy winter holiday poetry to bring some festivity and cheer to each and every creative, passionate soul. No matter the holiday you celebrate!

There’s a certain sweetness that arrives with this time of year. Perhaps it’s the cinnamon and snickerdoodle scents swirling around a warm home. Or maybe it’s the memories, new and old, surfacing to be experienced under glistening holiday lights. Whatever the sweet culprit may be, the holiday season remains a time to celebrate all we hold dear. 

Using these final weeks of the year to honor what we love most helps us all to begin the new year on the right track. Though this process can cause a blizzard of emotions to appear, they all arrive with one goal in mind— to help us find and experience life as fully as possible.

Between the presents, feasts and decorations sneak in chances to realign ourselves with what our hearts truly need most.

Peace, joy, grace, forgiveness, love.

All we need seems to find us during these last few days of the year.

So, to honor this magical time, here are some of our favorite holiday poems. Each one is pairs perfectly with hot cocoa and a loved one…and maybe a cookie or two!

Happy holidays!

Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff
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[little tree] by E.E. Cummings
The Feast of Light by Emma Lazarus
The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
When The Year Grows Old by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Taking Down the Tree by Jane Kenyon
New Year’s Eve by Warren Woessner
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Light the Festive Candles by Aileen Lucia Fisher
Kwanzaa Poem by Alfonso Siverls
Unite My Brothers and Sisters by Sonia Dixon
New Year’s Day by Kim Addonzio

We invite you to enjoy with us our favorite holiday poetry books. Spread the warm, poetic cheer!

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