If Christmas Was Not Just Once a Year

To not live alone and be apart

To welcome love and share a heart

To take a blow without complaint

To offer peace without constraint

To be pure when morals scream

To only see beauty in all you dream

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To show compassion to those in need

To be content with no thought of greed

To wish for nothing and ask for less

To live a life without duress

To offer silence in a raging storm

To be yourself and not conform

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To accept the pitfalls along your path

To smile and always be willing to laugh

To see good where others see bad

To be happy and never be sad

To be complete with love to spare

To live in colour where nothing is bare

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To encourage and abide

To be humble and not full of pride.

To wish that fear could abate

To offer friendship and speak no more of hate

If Christmas was not just once a year

If no child never cried a tear!

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Sentimental words and points of view

If only some were all we ever knew!

© 2016, Danny Kemp

About Daniel Kemp

Daniel Kemp is a seventy-four-year-old member of The Society of Authors. He is also a bestselling writer. He writes stories that appeal to those who like challenging themselves to solve mysteries that are set out before their eyes. His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself! On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic incident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for six years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company. All ten of his novels are now published by Next Chapter Publishing Company which has added an edition titled The Heirs And Descendants Collection, which holds all four books of that series, alongside an edition titled The Lies And Consequences Collection which contains all four volumes of that series. He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed executive of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising his first novel. He likes to write quotes and it's on Goodreads where you can find them--- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/72612151 An example of these quotes opens his novel--Once I Was A Soldier:--There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality. Less
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4 Responses to If Christmas Was Not Just Once a Year

  1. ksbeth says:

    beautiful, danny –

  2. Danny Kemp says:

    That’s very kind of you!

  3. Your poem fits you to a tee Danny, it would be wonderful if the rest of the world would heed the words. :o)

  4. Danny Kemp says:

    🙂 🙂 🙂

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