<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531091" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sights and Sounds of Christmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How do I know <br>Christmas is near<br>Signs around our house<br>Make it very clear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Advent paper windows<br>Get opened each day<br>Twenty-five to count<br>Teaching grandkids to pray</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They're more excited by<br>The piece of candy they find<br>Such a small prize makes big eyes<br>It's a joy of a special kind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each window has a little prayer<br>To remind why we count each day<br>There's other things that tell me<br>Santa too is on his way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the tree goes up<br>Home-made decorations are best<br>Ornaments bought for special days<br>Make up the rest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Special lights for the Manger<br>Ceramics fired by great-great-great aunt Vie<br>Ornaments made in pre-school<br>Thirty years gone by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then what they've all waited for<br>A cloth Snowman my wife made<br>His bulging belly's a pouch<br>Filled with candy starts a parade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hangs by Grandma's chair<br>Right there on the wall<br>As soon as they can reach<br>They want to be this tall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One by one day by day<br>A piece here a piece there<br>Some too short figutre out <br>To stand on Grandma's chair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pretty soon the Snowman's belly<br>Starts to go flat<br>No one knows for sure but<br>Someone always takes care of that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally a noise that I hear<br>A sort of occasional clink<br>Someone secretly checking for <br>Christmas cookies in the jar by the sink</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531091" data-title="Sights and Sounds of Christmas de Tom J. Mariani" data-description="How do I know Christmas is near Signs around our house Make it very clear Advent paper windows Get opened each day Twenty-five to count Teaching grandkids to pray They're more excited by The piece of candy they find Such a small prize makes big..."></div> </div> </div>

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