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10 Festive Christmas Poems To Get You Ready For The Holidays

Here's a roundup of ten holiday and Christmas poems, just in time for the end of the year!

Matt Grant

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Nov 29, 2018

Ready to get your holiday season started off right? Try these festive Christmas poems that can be read alone with a mug of tea or read out loud to bring in the season.

The Best Christmas Poems

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1. Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson

2. Remembrance of Christmas Past by Judith Viorst

3. Christmas Comes Again by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

Excerpt: Let me be merry now, ’tis time; The season is at hand For Christmas rhyme and Christmas chime, Close up, and form the band.

4. Why I Dread Christmas by Marena Koenka

5. For the Neighbor at Christmas by Maria Catherino

Excerpt: On Christmas day you show me how to seed a pomegranate to split it down the center and pluck out the pulpy red eyes with a fork. I pile them on the cutting board, their white pupils watching as we talk about music, bicycles, the liberal arts and what passes for pleasantries between strangers.

Christmas Poems for Kids

6. Singing Christmas Carols by Jack Prelutsky

Excerpt: On Christmas Eve we bundle up and go out caroling, our neighbors shut their windows when they hear my family sing.

7. Merry by Shel Silverstein

8. Dear Santa Slam from SPARC Poetry

Winter Holiday Poems

9. Chanukah Lights Tonight by Steven Schneider

10. A Poem of Unity: Kwanzaa, Day 1 by Sonia Dixon

Excerpt: Here we are on distant shores, Searching for love ones lost, Knowing their pain and suffering Was an ocean of love lost. Can’t you see the sun is shining Bringing energies of love? Want more poetry this holiday season? Book Riot has you covered!