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Topic: The Christmas Spirit
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted December 18, 2002 01:32 PM
What are your favorite Christmas songs? Feel free to post lyrics. I'll put mine up shortly. ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
theFajita Knowflake Posts: 2007 From: Boca Raton, FL USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 18, 2002 07:00 PM
Good King Wenceslas Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even;Brightly shone the moon that night, Tho' the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring winter fuel. "Hither, page, and stand by me, If thou know'st it, telling, Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?" "Sire, he lives a good league hence, Underneath the mountain; Right against the forest fence, By Saint Agnes' fountain." "Bring me flesh, and bring me wine, Bring me pine logs hither: Thou and I will see him dine, When we bear them thither." Page and monarch, forth they went, Forth they went together; Thro' the rude wind's wild lament And the bitter weather. "Sire, the night is darker now, And the wind blows stronger; Fails my heart, I know not how, I can go no longer." Mark my footsteps, good my page; Tread thou in them boldly: Thou shalt find the winter's rage Freeze thy blood less coldly." In his master's steps he trod, Where the snow lay dinted; Heat was in the very sod Which the saint had printed. Therefore, Christian men, be sure, Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor, Shall yourselves find blessing. We three kings of Orient are We three kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar, Field and fountain, morr and mountain, Following yonder Star. Chorus O, star of wonder, star of might, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to the perfect light. Chorus Born a babe on Bethlehem's plain; Gold we bring to crown Him again; King forever, ceasing never, Over us all to reign. Chorus Frankincense to offer have I; Incense owns a Deity nigh; Prayer and praising, all men raising, Worship Him, God on High. Chorus Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume Breathes a life of gathering gloom; Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, Seal'd in the stone-cold tomb. Chorus Glorious now behold Him arise, King and God and sacrifice, Heaven sings, "Hallelujah!" Hallejujah!" Earth replies. Chorus
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Oxychick Moderator Posts: 2486 From: neither here nor there Registered: Jul 2002
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posted December 19, 2002 06:16 AM
Personally, I don;t enjoy x-mas music for the lyrics, but I like some of the stuff off of the Elvis Christmas cd...and "Dominic the Donkey" always has a special place in my heart... ------------------ "What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson IP: Logged |
Jaqueline Knowflake Posts: 1088 From: Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Registered: Oct 2002
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posted December 19, 2002 09:37 AM
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light Next year all our troubles will be out of sight... Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the yuletide gay Next year all out troubles will be miles away... Once again as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us Will be near to us once more Someday we all will be together If the fates allow Until then we'll have to make it through the somehow So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
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Jaqueline Knowflake Posts: 1088 From: Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Registered: Oct 2002
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posted December 19, 2002 09:45 AM
Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John LennonSo this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun Ans so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young {Refrain} A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight {Refrain} And so this is Christmas And what have we done Another year over And a new one just begun Ans so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young {Refrain} War is over over If you want it War is over Now... IP: Logged |
theFajita Knowflake Posts: 2007 From: Boca Raton, FL USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 19, 2002 09:23 PM
love those Jakie!------------------ Food is the only art that nourishes! IP: Logged |
Jaqueline Knowflake Posts: 1088 From: Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Registered: Oct 2002
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posted December 19, 2002 09:42 PM
Hi Faji...as Carlo says...'Danita'! IP: Logged |
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posted December 19, 2002 09:43 PM
Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasHave yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on our troubles will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the yuletide gay From now on our troubles will be far away Once again as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us Gather near to us once more Through the years we all will be together If the fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough And have yourself a merry little Christmas now Once again as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us Gather near to us once more Through the years we all will be together If the fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough And have yourself a merry little Christmas now __________________ Merry X'mas!
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted December 21, 2002 10:16 AM
Do You Hear What I HearSaid the nightwind to the little lamb Do you see what I see Way up in the sky little lamb Do you see what I see A star, a star, dancing in the night with a tail as big as a kite with a tail as big as a kite Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear Ringing through the sky shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear A song, a song, high above the trees with a voice as big as the sea with a voice as big as the sea Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king Do you know what I know In your palace oh mighty king Do you know what I know A child, a child, shivers in the cold Let us bring him silver and gold Let us bring him silver and gold Said the king to the people everywhere Listen to what I say Pray for peace people everywhere Listen to what I say A child, a child, sleeping in the night he will bring us goodness and light he will bring us goodness and light Do you hear what I hear A child, a child, sleeping in the night he will bring us goodness and light he will bring us goodness and light Listen Do you hear what I hear Do you hear what I hear Listen ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
theFajita Knowflake Posts: 2007 From: Boca Raton, FL USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 21, 2002 11:45 AM
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financechick Knowflake Posts: 643 From: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Registered: Mar 2001
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posted December 22, 2002 06:12 PM
Mary Did you Know?Mary Did you Know that your Baby boy will one day walk on water? Mary did you Know that your baby boy will save our son's and Daughter's? Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new..this child that you delivered will soon deliver you. Mary did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man, Mary Did you Know that your baby boy will calm a storm with his hands? Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod, when you kiss your little baby...you've kissed the face of God...Mary Did you know? Mary did you know? The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again. The lame will lead, the dumb will speak the praises of the land. Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation. Mary did you know that your baby boy will one day rule the nations. Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect plan...this sleeping child you're holding is the great I AM. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted December 23, 2002 02:29 PM
------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:04 PM
How about a whole CD? It's a whole story and I listen to this CD year around. It's by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Here's the link for their website: http://www.trans-siberian.com/ THE CHRISTMAS ATTIC by Trans-Siberian Orchestra Somewhere in the universe Between this night and God An angel sat upon a star While thinking very hard To return once more to the earth He had been assigned And a single gift for all of man He was to leave behind But this gift that he was to leave Could not be taken from the heavenly court And how could he leave something behind If nothing could be brought Now this was quite a puzzle And he knew not how to start When he suddenly felt a prayer from a child Reach deep into his heart And though his time was limited To this one night of the year He could not ignore this child's request So he decided he would start here For though this night was Christmas Eve And dreams were all about Somewhere down below on earth He had felt this child begin to doubt A child who should have been asleep Instead was climbing attic stairs With her solitary candle And a single Christmas prayer Now, when angels they are called They rarely just appear But more often than not They gently whisper in one's ear And when they whisper to a child On nights when snow still glistens The chances are much stronger still That, that child, will listen So in this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives Welcome friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child Who spends this night in an attic dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts Now, if you wonder why this child is here With all asleep and Christmas near She's come up here to look for truth In this place closest to the roof For she had heard from friends who feel That nothing on this night is real That no adults truly believe In all these things of Christmas Eve This night that seems to cast a spell Is the same world, just tinseled well And as she lay in bed that night She wondered if they might be right And she wondered then who she might ask About this question that had been cast For adults, she had been told, you see Are part of this conspiracy But in her mind becoming clear The shadow of a child's idea There was one whose presence alone Would reconfirm what she had known But this man, he was so rarely seen For he only arrived when children dreamed But if what she had believed was right He should appear this very night So on this night with so much at stake She's determined that she would stay awake But then a problem came to mind It seems that fate had not been kind For their chimney had been closed that year Some bricks might fall, her father feared So she had devised another plan To hear when on the roof he lands So with the ghosts left here by fate Upon this night she sits and waits Now as I'm sure you all must know When one is waiting, time moves slow And as she wondered what to do (her options seeming far too few) The Angel caused that child to look Behind a yellowed pile of books Among these memories disguised as junk She noticed there a well worn trunk It was filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath Some ornaments, a hand rung phone And records with a gramophone A mix of long forgotten words With melodies no longer heard All threads of long forgotten lives But here somehow they had survived These letters that had caught her eye Now in her hands they seemed alive And as each letter she unsealed A small piece of the past was revealed For Christmas weaves a life long spell And most of all remembers well And as that child explored the past Once again that spell was cast And as the child began to read Upon this night of Christmas Eve The Angel's plan, as you can tell It was already working well So as the ghosts gently arise In our first song we'll summarize THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS EVE by Trans-Siberian Orchestra In this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives
Welcome, friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child
Who spends this night in attics dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts And so it's here that they must wait Till someone wishes them awake For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve And there near an old looking glass There was a trunk from Christmas past That she had somehow missed before But now decides she will explore 'Twas filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath So as the evening hours leave The child sat down and started to read For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:05 PM
BOUGHS OF HOLLY(Instrumental) That first letter, that she had read In that attic far from bed Was from a father trying to say How his first child saw Christmas Day THE WORLD THAT SHE SEES There in this night There is a life Someone who waits for me Only a child Dreams and a smile Waiting to play And now she's found Snow on the ground Magic has been set free She's waited here All of this year Just for this day
And then the night comes alive With lights to dazzle And everything's extraordinary Nothing is left ordinary
Christmas has come With its long memory And in my mind It always will be The world that she sees Caught in this night Pieces of light Glitter and play for you And made of glass Dreams from the past Wait for this day And if you try Look in the sky One star is shining through And on this eve You can't believe It's far away And then the night comes alive With lights to dazzle And everything's extraordinary Nothing is left ordinary Christmas has come With its long memory And in my mind It always will be The world that she sees There on this night Pieces of light There on this night Pieces of light Christmas has come Christmas has come The world that she sees The world that she sees On this night On this night The world that she sees Then after he had thought awhile The father recalled another child Born in a time now far away And how this child's dreams Had reached this day He wondered what that child had thought And when he slept what dreams he sought And did the shepherds understand All the hopes in that child's hands? And how those hopes would still survive As dreams within each newborn's eyes * * * Then the child heard a clock tolling From a distant city tower And she gazed up at the starlight On this Christmas midnight hour And she wondered if these stars Were all but bits of dreams From somewhere in the distant past That somehow, could still be seen And she wondered if her candle Upon this magic night Could be seen by someone faraway As their own starlight ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:07 PM
MIDNIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE(Instrumental) Then she saw a gramophone From a time gone long before Any in this room were born But tonight it would be heard once more For she had found a small handle There upon one end And when she turned it twice around It began to play again THE MARCH OF THE KINGS / O HOLY NIGHT (Instrumental)
Mixed among the letters Was a young boy's school report About the three wise men And how they were nearly caught Now many books have been written About what had happened on that night But this report was based upon Some additional insight It seems his uncle had come by Each Christmas without fail And claimed to know what really happened In that classic Christmas tale THE THREE KINGS AND I (WHAT REALLY HAPPENED)
O Holy night The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear savior's birth Now you all heard the story about Bethlehem How the child was born and the three wise men Heard the preacher tell it like the preacher does But let me tell you, children, That's not how it was Now you might ask me what I'm talking about But I know the part that they all left out Now do you hear what I said That Herod wanted those wise men dead But on that blessed evening My great great great great great great granddad He saved those kings Now granddad made his living Playing jazz you see But jazz wasn't big around one A.D. So he got himself a job in the palace band Where he heard about three kings In the desert sand Let me tell you children that at any time Three kings in the desert that's a real rare find But Herod heard of it too And when he heard his curiosity grew So he asked those kings to drop by And my great great great great great great Granddad He wondered why So the Magi told old Herod That they had come here To find a newborn king of kings Who'd heal our sins Then herod told his guards To follow those Magi And that the only king around here Was gonna' be him Then he told his soldiers as I recall When they found that child, to kill them all But granddad overheard what Herod said And he had to act fast or else they'd all be dead So granddad got to those kings Filled them in on the plan, told them everything When they heard what he had in store They grabbed the gold The frankincense The myrrh, the jewels The desert tents And when they found His plan was sound They followed granddad out the back door And what a night It must have been But when God is on your side You kinda' know that in the end You're gonna win They traveled fast They traveled far And in the end they found That they were standing with the Child Beneath the star Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah And so you see we've reached the end Of our story When granddad and the kings Reached that stable on the hill And while I said that Three kings in the desert is a rare sight Angels singing in the desert that's far rarer still Now I ain't sayin' that the bible was wrong But ya' see the whole tale Would have taken too long 'Cause way back then in the promised land Every copy they sold, It had to be written by hand And granddad lived a long life Stayed friends with those kings And found a good wife And eventually I came along But that my children That my children That's another song The next letter included a receipt For one toy stuffed bear Donating it to a small thrift shop But somehow it was left there For attics have their secrets And toys will have theirs, too Like who once held or loved them When they last were new Whether they were made of metal Or they were cotton stuffed Or how they had been left here When they were not enough And so it's here that they must wait Between reality and dream Hoping all will be remembered And that all can be redeemed Then in the sound of the wind Whistling through a door She thought she heard the sound of children That had held this toy before And she then thought to herself As she now held it in her hand That no one could save all the world But we should save who we can So she placed it near her candle For she had decided in her mind That when she left this attic He would not be left behind ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:08 PM
CHRISTMAS CANONMerry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings This night We pray Our lives Will show This dream He had Each child Still knows We are waiting We have not forgotten On this night On this night On this very Christmas night JOY OF MAN'S DESIRE / ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH The next letter that she found Was by a ribbon gently bound To the key for a small music box And she placed that key into its lock And the melody that it had learned Once again began to turn And as that tune it filled the air She opened the letter that was there And that letter contained a news clipping About a man with many things In his world, a great success And where he lived, the best address His happy life the world did know Because the papers told us so But the Angel he could clearly see That all was not as it appeared to be For on this night as snow clouds gathered That man wondered if that all really mattered And on this night inside his home He realized that he was alone And he asked himself what his life had meant How all these years they had been spent And how he could feel his life such a waste When he had every dream that he had chased But then the Angel whispered in his ear And in his mind the man heard clear Tell me one wish that you have granted Tell me one life you've enchanted Tell me one of these things that you have done But the man could not recall a single one He was close to no one, this thing he did know Well there was one person, but that was long ago And though that someone Had been far more than a friend It was far too late to ever go back to her again FIND OUR WAY HOME
He believed in the things That he always thought he knew And had done all the things That he always wanted to do Collecting Each thing reflecting his worth But now he pondered How he had wandered this earth For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own Until on this evening When the year is leaving We all try to find our way home He had time or at least then he Always thought he did And mistakes, well, he thought that time Always would forgive Each transgression For his intention Forgetting Years he squandered On things he now was regretting For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own Until on this evening When the year is leaving We all try to find our way home For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own But on this evening When the year is leaving I think I would be alright If on this Christmas night I could just find my way home There is something about this night That the Lord has arranged That reaches deep into our souls And causes us to want to change And angels know things about us That no else can know And this Angel's heart it formed a plan And then caused the night to snow ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:10 PM
APPALACHIAN SNOWFALL(Instrumental) She had carefully read that article And when she was all done She started on the letter And it was the saddest one THE MUSIC BOX
Remember last Christmas Eve When we sat next to our first tree Ornaments reflected light Of a candle in the night And I gave you a music box Back then that seemed like so much We watched it go round and round As the melodies unwound But all these things are now long gone And not to be wished upon again But the musical box continues to turn The candle in the window continues to burn But I know they're just memories Like Christmas past and you and me Remember that old fireplace That held the room in warm embrace And as we watched for Christmas ghosts The fire held the shadows close But now upon that Christmas scene The candle wax of melted dreams And ornaments of shattered glass Now belonging to the past But all these things are now long gone And not to be wished upon again But the musical box continues to turn The candle in the window continues to burn But I know they're just memories Like Christmas past and you and me Behind that single letter Was a weathered photograph Of that man in the article But from somewhere in his past And standing there beside him In a setting summer sun Was the lady who used to own this house Only here she was quite young She had moved to a smaller place That was only right next door And then the child noticed something else That she had missed before This letter had no stamp it seemed And was surely never sent And as she sat upon the floor That child she wondered what it meant Then the Angel whispered to her A most important fact That for compassion to be real It requires one to act Then once again that child came up With a child's idea But she knew she must act fast For time, it was growing dear So taking that article back downstairs She found the kitchen phone And called up information To find the number of his home And when he picked up the receiver She quickly told him quite enough To know who was waiting on this night for him And then the child, she just hung up Then to make sure that no one was awake She took a quick look down the hall Then she found her neighbor's number And repeated that same call ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:11 PM
THE SNOW CAME DOWNA railway station On a long forgotten line No destination But it always leaves on time He buys his ticket As the train prepares to leave Don't want to miss it On this night Christmas Eve He stared into the night no expectations He watched the world go by without a sound He saw the city lights arrive and fade away While all that night All that night The snow came down No conversation As the snow fell from the sky His consolation That the world is well disguised He stared into the night no expectations He watched the world go by without a sound He saw the city lights arrive and fade away While all that night All that night The snow came down He stared into the night, no expectations But in his heart he wanted to believe That somehow someone would be waiting there Upon this Christmas Eve And when his train it pulled into that station He saw there was a single pair of tracks Within the snow and leading to that Station door And he followed those steps back And on this night of our salvation Where dreams that have been lost Can there be found They walked away together On that Christmas Eve While all that night All that night The snow came down In this last season of the year This season that we trust It's not only important to know for whom we wait But to know who waits for us And as they walked home together To the light of Christmas trees They could not help but wonder About how this night came to be While back inside the attic The girl saw them walking through the snow And she smiled with a child's delight Thinking how they would never know And suddenly she realized Beneath this night of stars Sometimes Christmas uses its own hands And sometimes it uses ours CHRISTMAS IN THE AIR Christmas time in the middle of a city
Seeking its salvation With every string of lights That suddenly appears Children stare with new found wonder No one dares to break the trance Every wish is carefully numbered And God has granted all a second chance This day And all at once The dream's begun And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again All again On this winter night We still wait for you And now the time has come When all the world is one And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air There comes a time when we're on our own Some times in life such a thing must be But such a thing should not be known This night This night This night And all at once The dream's begun And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air The final letter that she read Was from a younger man It came with a journal That was all written by hand He had done something so wrong in life That he no longer wished to live But on this night he had a dream And found that God forgives If we truly regret how others we have hurt He will understand So he took the message from this night And became a different man ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:13 PM
DREAM CHILD (A CHRISTMAS DREAM)In the night Was the dark In the dark Was the dream In the dream Was the Child And myself There unseen In the book was the word In the word there was truth In the truth there was age In the age there was youth And I said to the Child Do your hands they still bleed After all of this time Do you think there's still need But the Child only smiled And said not a word And the snow it came down As if it hadn't heard And all that night the snow came down To heal the scars our lives had found And the dreams that lay broken And there upon a bridge of dreams Across the night we walked unseen With no words ever spoken And then on through that night We did walk for a while And our steps turned to blocks And the blocks turned to miles Then we followed a path For as far as we could Till we found ourselves there In an evergreen woods There were thousands of candles Upon every tree It was beautiful But there was one mystery For with all of those candles You must understand That the only one lit Was now in that Child's hand And there upon that Christmas scene The candle wax of melted dreams And the years they had taken And as the snow did gently fall He one by one relit them all Till each dream was awakened And there to that light That young Child showed to me All the things that he dreamt All the things that might be How for everything given That something was gained Strike one match in the dark And all the world's not the same And then I asked that Child Why this night has a star And he said, "So we'd know That we could see that far" And these candles are wed To that distant star's light And it all came to be Upon that long winter's night That long winter's night That long winter's night That long winter's night And when I awoke, well the Child he was gone But somewhere in my mind I believe he lives on And somewhere in my life Between here and the end On a long winter's night I will dream him again Then she noticed on some Christmas cards A reddish purple stain Where someone had spilled some Christmas wine And there it had remained Until the heat from a radiator Whistling in the air Had caused it to evaporate Into an angel's share AN ANGEL'S SHARE
Deep inside this Christmas Eve Watching as the hours leave Gently drifting in the air Shadows of an angel's share Christmas lights On Christmas nights With peace for every nation Stable scenes And evergreens With snow still glistening Angels grace This humble place With hopes of our salvation Christmas cards And snow filled yards And children wondering Rejoice All awaken Rejoice Quickly hasten Rejoice For the newborn king Rejoice For the vision Rejoice He has given Hear the choirs as they sing Scrooge returns To once more learn That Christmas ghosts conspire To redeem His soul it seems But still he hesitates To believe He's not deceived Until this night inspires Him to find That at this time It never is too late Rejoice All awaken Rejoice Quickly hasten Rejoice For the newborn king Rejoice For the vision Rejoice He has given Hear the choirs as they sing And sing And sing And sing and sing and sing Winter dreams Her endless scenes In endless combinations To embrace This world of faith This world that we now see Every year It returns here With all its variations And as the day It fades away And we once more find that... Once again the promise kept One by one the angels slept So we leave this night in peace And the world in gentle sleep When she finished the last letter From that little stack She put each one in its envelope And carefully put them back Then she sat and thought quite carefully About all she had learned Realizing that her belief in this night Had completely returned For if all these grownups she had read Had in this night believed It could not be possible That they all had been deceived And she marveled how though every letter Was signed with a different name That in the end it seemed that all Their wishes were the same That the light that reached our lives From that distant Christmas star Would make us, if not perfect Then perhaps better than who we are And suddenly she noticed That there was a present there He must have come and left it When she had gone down the stairs Then she realized as for that chimney She needn't have worried after all For Christmas she had found this night Could not be stopped by walls Could not be stopped by distance Could not be stopped by time And if one lived a thousand years It would still be there to find Now some will say that all these gifts Were left by her father or her mother But I for one, will always suspect It could have been another And before she went back down the stairs With her fading candlelight She found some paper and wrote down All that had occurred that night And sometime on some distant night We really can't say when Someone will read that letter And this night will live again And so our story's over And the child returned to bed To dream about this magic night And where it all had led And the Angel who had heard her thoughts About what she had learned Now realized that his job was done And it was time he should return And taking back all he had brought He returned just in time To appear before his Lord And tell him what he had left behind There were two souls reunited On a snow blessed Christmas Eve And sleeping safely in her bed Was the child who still believed And once again the Lord smiled down From his heavenly throne And took the Angel into his heart And whispered, welcome home And may you also hear those words All through your life But may you hear them most of all On every Christmas night Merry Christmas! Post Script And the most magical thing About this night we will now reiterate That no matter where you are in life It never is too late ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged |
Auriel Langford Knowflake Posts: 351 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted December 29, 2002 12:13 PM
MUSIC BOX BLUESRemember last Christmas Eve When we sat next to our first tree Ornaments reflected light Of a candle in the night And I gave you a music box Back then that seemed like so much We watched it go round and round As the melodies unwound But all these things are now long gone And not to be wished upon again But the music box continues to turn The candle in the window continues to burn But I know they're just memories Like Christmas past and you and me Remember that old fireplace That held the room in warm embrace And as we watched for Christmas ghosts The fire held the shadows close But now upon that Christmas scene The candle wax of melted dreams And ornaments of shattered glass Now belonging to the past But all these things are now long gone And not to be wished upon again But the music box continues to turn The candle in the window continues to burn But I know they're just memories Like Christmas past and you and me I miss you baby Oh yes, I do And it's been far too long Since I last laid eyes on you I got the lights upon the Christmas tree I got the candle lit for you to see And beside this window I will wait For inside this night it's not too late I got the lights Up on the tree They're shining bright If you'd just believe Just believe with me The candles burning You know I'm gonna wait The clock keeps turning But I know it's not I know it's not too late I got the lights upon the Christmas tree I got the candle lit for you to see And beside this window I will wait For inside this night I know it's not too late ------------------ To fall in Love, is to rise. . . . ~Upendra IP: Logged | |