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I love Christmas! I enjoyed reading your poem.

Again, the flow is really halting because of the forced rhymes you are doing. You are sticking to a pattern of the ababab rhyme scheme but in this piece, that rhyming scheme hurts the piece.

for example:

They see all the presents and the stockings filled wide,

the children wonder if they should open them up or hide.

while you explain why the children would hide in the next few lines, I really got stuck on that first part and almost refused to move on as I sat and wondered why they would hide.

Blanketing the ground in its white frosted ice,

let's hope it doesn't get too cold for the mice.

I thought this part was very cute! I love the reference to snow being white, frosted ice. *Smile*

this is not the time to be malicious;but gay.
you need a space between the semicolon and the word but. I would also change out the semicolon for a comma.

I am not sure why you use rhyming in the two poems I read so far. I know my sister always felt she had to use a perfect rhyme scheme when she wrote and sometimes he poems ended up sounding very 'beginner-ish.' I challenge to to write a poem with out the rhyme scheme. I am not sure if you have or not yet, I am off to look for one. I think your ideas behind the poem are excellent and can only get better if you speak from your heart, rather than speaking in rhyme.
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