The Best Christmas Poems

1. Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson

2. Remembrance of Christmas Past by Judith Viorst

3. Christmas Comes Again by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

4. Why I Dread Christmas by Marena Koenka

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

5. For the Neighbor at Christmas by Maria Catherino

6. Singing Christmas Carols by Jack Prelutsky

Excerpt: On Christmas day you show me how to seed a pomegranate

Christmas Poems for Kids

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

The Pin

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!

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