Love Poem: Yuletide Fire
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Written by: Gary Radice

Yuletide Fire

behind the logs on this crackling fire
the dulcet sound of a distant choir

wakes up the child and times in me 
like lights around a Christmas tree

and takes me back when sixties' chills
left ice inside our window sills

when Jesus lay behind the door 
of advent's number twenty four

when the greatest presents that we had
was the presence of our mum and dad

when love and laughter fun and games
lit up the room just like these flames

that dance each year to times gone by
before they flicker, fade and die.