Wishing you a happy and blessed Christmas. Thank you for supporting my writing and the charities I have worked to help over the years with my poetry and my children’s novel. I’m delighted to say my total donated to the charities is getting closer to £6000 now!
I thought I would like to share one of my Christmas poems with you.
God bless always
Elaine
Dream of First Christmas
So the bible falls shut
And I close my eyes
Soon I can see them, feel them.
In a dream of first Christmas.
As night’s blackness surrounds me
I see the brightness of one star
The glistening gold on a silhouetted king.
I hear quietness across velvet hillsides
As the darkness of this world descends
Angels suddenly proclaim the arrival
Of the precious new born lamb.
Inside the stable in awesome stillness
Amongst the rough and crude straw
The heavenly babe innocently sleeps.
Kneeling beside him
Shepherds bow heads in adoration
With fresh hope for this world
Bursting from their triumphant minds.
I witness the start of a pilgrimage
From the wood of the manger
To the wood of the cross.
I feel the joy of his mother Mary
Her fixed gaze never leaves her son
But sadly I have read the script
And I, not wanting to acknowledge
How her tears of happiness
Will turn to those of sorrow.
Before her a gift from the Father
Like no other could give
Soon I awake from my sleep
I can no longer see them
In my dream was the vividness
Of that first Christmas night
Now it is written on my heart
Having unwrapped the everlasting present
And experienced the comfort of a child
In God’s enfolding arms.
So the bible falls open
And I, with eyes willing to see
Read the word and its ending
From the wood of the manger
To the wood of the cross
And beyond, towards a promise…
Of eternity.
Elaine Coltham
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