Christmas Time For You And Me – by Susie Hemingway.

by susie

Christmas time for you and me

tis’ very different I’m sure you’ll see

the favourites that please you and me

complete this yuletide picture…

Christmas bright with candlelight

good friends to share with you,

log fires that crackle, and ban the cold

toes warm as toast on rugs of old,

scented smell of cinnamon and

warm mulled wine to sip,

when carols sung of partridges, turtle doves,

winter crystals fall as snowflakes

from heaven above, to settle

on gleeful warm faces, catching

their lashes as they quicken their paces

to peep in pretty windows dressed ready to share,

a few of these favourite things.

Jenny’s warm crisp mince pies

adds a sparkle to your eyes,

quince jelly and all those yummy things

brandy butter and children’s grins,

at snap of pretty crackers, mottos

laughing faces and silly chatter,

sweet smell of oranges, chestnuts too

Oh! to share them all with you.

Coloured garish paper hats, that special robin

that came and sat

near mistletoe for that special kiss,

we hang in bunches not to miss

the wonder of the child’s eyes

as underneath the tree is spied

coloured papered box entice,

if you’ve been good, if you’ve been nice?

Family, friends, laughter, fun..

“Merry Christmas” special ones.

Christmas time no different you see

Just as long as you’re here with me.

12 comments

1 alaine { 12.09.09 at 8:46 pm }: Hello Susie, I loved that and also love reading how my blog friends are preparing, decorating, cooking for Christmas; some have snow falling already, while we here in Australia will probably have a heatwave on the day! But we still cook the huge roast, hot pudding and custard and all the trimmings! xa
2 Ellie { 12.09.09 at 10:32 pm }: I feel so festive after reading this poem. I love it! Xx
3 susie { 12.10.09 at 1:20 pm }: Wishing you a very Happy Christmas ‘down under’ I would certainly love some of your warm sunshine Alaine – it’s getting jolly cold here, maybe snow before Christmas. We have our Village Pageant on the 15th, walking through the village lanes, singing carols and telling the Nativity Story – then it really will feel like Christmastime. I will think of you in the Sun X
4 susie { 12.10.09 at 1:22 pm }: Thank you Ellie. So glad my poem made you feel ready for Christmas X
5 Jenny Robson { 12.10.09 at 1:51 pm }: “Lovely and Christmassy Susie and some more mince pies for you I think! xx”
6 Susie Hemingway { 12.14.09 at 1:36 pm }: Yes please Jen, they really are the best of all Mince Pies!
7 Janey { 12.22.09 at 4:32 pm }: Lovely festive poem Susie, captures it all I think. Hope you all have a safe journey down.
8 Susie Hemingway { 12.22.09 at 7:10 pm }: Thanks Janey, glad you liked my Christmas poem. Yes the weather looks very pretty here in the wolds, but so dangerous on the roads – still we have the four wheel drive and a shovel ! hope to see you on the 29th XXX dv
9 Jean { 12.24.09 at 6:40 pm }: Just stopping by to wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas, Susie.
10 Minna Van Stone { 01.06.10 at 6:04 pm }: Love your poem, Susie – so different in a village, as opposed to the busy town I live in. But, Christmas is where the heart is – everywhere the love is. I will close my eyes and think of your village and dream I am there, next year. Thanks for the beautiful thoughts.
11 susie { 01.07.10 at 5:17 pm }: Thank you Jean – wishing you a very happy healthy and peaceful 2010
12 susie { 01.07.10 at 5:19 pm }: Minna I would love you to be here sometime – it is a quiet peaceful place – not for everyone I fear, but suits us very well during this journey X

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About Susie Hemingway

Hello Dear Reader, and welcome to my new home on the internet. I'm lucky to live in a beautiful village nestling by the river Bain in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds. From my windows overlooking pasture land, I can see sheep and Lincoln Red Cows according to the season. Just one small Church, a Village Pub and less than 250 inhabitants.

This is where I will write my many "Poems Of Love" together with a few stories, I do hope you enjoy them and return again. Please leave a comment should you wish, it is always lovely to hear from you.

Susie's book "A Power Within - Poems of Love" is available to purchase here, see: Navigation.

It is also available at the Myeloma UK 'info days' throughout the year. Proceeds to Myeloma UK.

~ Poems of Love ~

The following poems have been written by me for my husband Hamada, who is suffering from Multiple Myeloma – a bone marrow cancer arising from the plasma cells. After many months of chemotherapy and contracting pneumonia twice, (once given only twelve hours to live) and now having two bad fractures to his spine, and only a small percentage of kidney function left, we have made it to three years. He never complains using his most amazing smile even when I know he has severe pain. Hamada achieved a Stem Cell Transplant, using his own ‘harvested cells’ during October 2007 he spent seventeen days in the Centre For Clinical Haematology at Nottingham City Hospital UK. He obtained a good partial remission and managed just over a year before tests showed ‘the beast was back’ Hamada is weak and tired but with his amazing courage he continues his fight against Multiple Myeloma. I hope you enjoy these poems of love telling of our life together and all latest updates posted, to help raise the profile of this rare 1% of all cancers. I hope you follow as Hamada makes this journey.
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As readers to this blog already know, I chronicle here, a continuous register of updates and poems telling of Hamada's journey with this difficult disease of Multiple Myeloma. A most complex illness to treat and stage, with at the moment, no known cure. Still for many people it can be managed well if diagnosed early. Hamada was diagnosed when the Myeloma had attacked his kidneys and was in eighty percent of his blood steam. So you will understand his courageous battle with this disease.
Hamada was very keen that I record his progress or lack of, during this journey to perhaps help others. So you will appreciate that my poems must be and are, from my true feelings and watchfulness as the days go by. Hamada is currently out of remission but is not undergoing any Chemotherapy treatment at the moment,with only maintenance drugs prescribed, in the hope that he will become a little stronger to try to reduce the Cancer once more.

Taken From Comments On the BBC Radio Interview: Joan Kahley USA { 12.11.09 at 6:32 pm }
Susie, What an inspiring interview. I cried listening to you. My heart hurt for you and Hamada knowing what you are going through. I pray that doctors will find the right drugs and/or procedures to put him back into remission. I pray that both of you will find peace and comfort and joy in every day you are blessed with. With God all things are possible. Through your poems you give such great hope, such peace, and so much love to those suffering with myeloma, their caretakers and their families. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful poetry.

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