"Christmas Tree Goes on a Diet" Published

My blog's featured post this month was the first draft of a poem recently revised and published in the December Your Country Neighbor. Both the blog and publication include before and after photos of our Christmas tree. This far into the holiday season, with all of its sweet temptations, I'm already planning my next diet, too.

Christmas Tree Goes on a Diet

by Janet Sobczyk, 2018

Dressed in green

bedecked in red bling

white lights, white angel

carols in the air

eggnog for sweet sipping

multicolored presents

invited children to shake and peek.

Years passed

angel perch broke

children grew

long legs needed space

a tree so full and fat

hardly fit the room

time to buy a new one.

Brought it home

dressed it the same

stood back, admired

new tree was much thinner

seems over the summer

dear old tree

went on a diet!