QUALITIES OF LIFE (all year round)

               Always be tidy

              Always be clean

              Always be generous

              Never be mean

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              Do your best for your neighbour

              Do your best for your friends

              Do your best for all concerned         

              And respect for you will never end

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              Try to be humble

              Try to be meek

              Try to be reasonable

              As this is what we all seek

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              We strive for perfection

              We strive to do our very best

              We strive for all our lives

              To pass life’s hardest test

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              To live with one another

              In peace and harmony

              If we each do our little bit

              Then maybe one day-we’ll all be free…

Wishing everyone across the globe the happiest of new years considering were most of us are. Keeping a positive frame of mind as much as we can for ourselves and each other. J W Nelson.

Your day or reckoning is here! – well that is a little melodramatic – but yes its a day of hopeful joy, togetherness and time with loved ones. Enjoy yours as best you can. Happy Christmas and new year to you all.

A Child is Born

A  story from far, far away

Told of a young baby born in hay

Surrounded by the spirit of power

That came down from heaven in an invisible shower

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It was cold everywhere outside

No one wanted to help, instead they’d hide

Keeping mother and baby at bay

Until kindness showed them where they could stay

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Little did anyone but a few know

The prince that god through Mary did bestow

A future to help save sinful mankind

A role of great importance it would not be a bind

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The carrier of peace in his heart

He would do this right from the start

Doing all he could across the world

To man, woman, boy and girl

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At this time special time of year

We do well to remember; to shed a tear

For an ultimate sacrifice displayed

The debt of our sins, he paid

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Let’s not mourn but celebrate

By honouring, not to berate

Joining family, friends and the needy

Reflecting on not becoming too greedy

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Share amongst the magic of this time

With good food and maybe some wine

The universal spirit that from this will spawn

Brings us back to why the child was born.

Its the day before. Anticipation reins supreme in many households across the globe. This year that anticipation may well be tempered by what we’ve had to endure. Yet as the cliché line states ‘ life goes on’ or in some cases ‘ the show must go on’, as we do this we remember the fallen, and quietly appreciate what we have.

The Big Day 

With patient trepidation

The big day finally arrives

 Partaken by the Christian nation

Whatever we do is no longer a surprise

—–

The children awake early

Eager and excited as can be

Wives and girlfriends rise to the yearning

‘I wander what he’s got me?’

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Then to the presents to unveil

Our patience is tested once again

Some expressions go from pink to pale

As the gifts are ranked one out of ten

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The kitchen is now the key

Too many cooks to spoil?

The pressure mounts on you and me

As we haven’t used enough oil

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The grand meal is served on time

The drinks have flowed all day

We cooked turkey and fish with a squeeze of lime

There is enough to last until May

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Pulling crackers and wearing silly hats

All part of the Christmas theme

Stories regaled about this and that

Becomes the after dinner Christmas scene

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Drunk with booze, full with food

Everyone goes through the motions

The effort of getting in the annual Christmas mood

Must be the best secret of many a potion…                

December 24^th 2020

Christmas Wish – your festive poetic diversion for December 23rd, 2020

Christmas Wish

What is your desire?

What would you care for most?

Your spirits to be higher?

A special gift received through the post?

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Whatever you would wish for

May come round at any time soon

In the night and through your door

Delivered on a starry night lit also by the moon

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Hope and pray this is it

You will get your Christmas wish

Be happy with a scarf and some mits

Complimented with your favourite Christmas dish!

Its the last week in what has been a tumultuous year for most of us around the globe for reason or another. In this last week leading to what will be a different Christmas, here something that hopefully put a smile on your face.

This is for Monday Dec 21st – I will send out the Tues Dec 22nd later today and one for the next 3 days (if anyone will read anything on Christmas Day!)

The Snowman Slides In…

From the top, where it’s high

He goes on the slippery slope

Deliberately weaving from side to side

I reckon this Snowman is dope

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Shades sit in front of his beady eyes

Covering half his chubby face

He begins to increase his speed

In hopes of winning the race

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Faster faster, you hear him shout

The crowd responds with a chilling cheer

Up and down and over humps

He begins to smile with nothing to fear

—–

The end is now in sight

The challengers are on his back

He’s trips one of them up

Now its time to attack

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Leading from the front

Across the finish line he wins!

The coolest of all dudes

Is the Snowman that slides in…

December 2020

For the a short read of the 5 star review and to see what JW Nelson thinks about writing in general, and how creating stories, building plots and how he comes up with the names of his characters; see the two links below:

Book Review Link

https://bookviewreview.com/2020/12/15/company-of-fools-selling-for-love-life-is-a-tricky-business-by-j-w-nelson/

JW Nelson Interview Link:

I’m happy to answer further questions if anyone has any or any comments!

Thanks and Seasons Greetings to you all.

JW Nelson

For less than the price of your favourite coffee or tea – a longer lasting present to gift your friends and family for the reduced short term price of £0.99 (check Amazon from Friday Dec 4th) for the reduced price for POEMS FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON

In the US this will be available at $0.99 (again for a short period only) hopefully from tomorrow.

Book premise:

25 Poems for each day of December to Christmas Day that offer a typical, or sometimes whimsical look at this season of unified madness, greed, desperation, sadness, unmitigated child-like joy with a sprinkling of love, compassion and togetherness with an overriding sense of Christianity as the icing on your Xmas cake. My gift to all.

A taster – (December 1st)

Christmas Time (again!)

So its ho ho ho

And a bottle of rum

Its time for the show

And fill our tums

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No holding back

We’re at full pelt

No time to slack

Otherwise the snow will melt

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Must keep going

Spend, spend, spend

Keep that cash flowing

When will it end…

———

When the shops are empty

When the food is all gone

We’ll still be tempted

To carry on and on

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Don’t worry about a thing

This madness is perfectly sane

A time to celebrate and sing

“Its Christmas time (again)”