Christmas Spirits

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Christmas Spirits

By Dahni
© 2020, all rights reserved

 

Once upon time and only once a year
Mysterious; quite strange, it will appear
Buildings and skyscrapers will move and give space
As if by magic, but to most, an invisible place
But some unseen force, draws them and they come and came
And an old gaslight lantern, illuminates the name

‘Old Fezziwig’s Christmas Spirits & Cheer’
Festive to the restless, in the dark and the drear

No ghosts of future, present or past to one’s birth
Just The Wise Guy that serves the mirth
Lively libations and custom made cheer
For what ails yah’ and what casts out every fear

And they came and come, the lost and alone in profusion
The tossed whose drinks were sore woes and confusion
Some, with shorts too tight that pinches
The grumpys’ the scrooges and grinches

Music and dancing
Clinking and prancing
Observations
And conversations
Libations and custom-made cheer
And all are welcome here

Up to the bar they sit sat and wait and waited
With dim slims of hope, to be sated

No demands or judgement, just a voice
Just the asking each, to make a choice
Frozen hearts like glaciers and icebergs calve
“How may I serve you, what will you have?”

And often the reply is just a request,
“My dear sir, what would you suggest?”
“What would you recommend, most affective?”
And he said, “That all depends on your
perspective!”

“I could fill your glass half empty or I could fill it half full
Only you can decide, the push or the pull
I can pour all that glows and glitters
I just don’t and won’t pour the bitters

I can fizzle and I can dazzle
I can drizzle, but never frazzle
No down memory lane or ‘Auld Lang Syne’
Just spirits and drinks of cheer and life’s “fruit of the vine”

“I can pour you something that would make you want to be warm and in the pink
I can make your want to smile, but I just can’t make you think”

“But to tell you the truth, all these suggestions are, to try and get you to think
Because I only, only, just make one, special drink”

“It’s ‘The Golden Heart’, neither solid nor broken

Just edges, no center and just a token
You decide and with one swig or swallow
Your heart will be open or it will be hollow”

And drink they all up and down the hatch
And in an instant, like striking a match
The scene is quickly gone to—disappear
And all to wonder, were they really here?

This was no dream, but a lesson of life
An open heart is fraught, full and rife
A solid heart can be dented, damaged, frozen and broken apart
But flowing out and flowing in that’s…

…an open heart

Note: “Old Fezziwig” was a fictional character ‘in ‘A Christmas Carol’, by Charles Dickens

From the collection: The Uncollected Collection’ by the same author

 

Fezz

(‘Old Fezziwig’s Gold heart’)

Note: four letter name change (Fezz), suggested by sister Carol Lee

Libatious’ #130 

bonus drinks beyond 100

By Dahnini or Dahnitini
Spirits Alchemist
Bon Devant

Rim martini glasses  🍸🍸 with lemon 🍋 and  use a paint brush and brush on a little little edible gold dust

4 jiggers vodka
2 jiggers of orange liqueur  🍊
juice of 1 fresh lemon 🍋
½ jigger of honey 🍯 and finely chopped crystallized ginger pieces
2 egg whites

Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and dry-shake (no ice).
Add ice 🧊 and shake again in Hand Shaker until well chilled

“Shaken not stirred!” -007, Bond, James Bond- 😀

Strain into chilled martini 🍸 🍸 glasses
Shake edible gold dust into the center of your ‘Fez’

Makes two lovely libations. One to share and one for you. 😀

ENJOY! 😉 Drink your ‘FEZ’ (Old Fezziwig’s Gold Heart 💛), responsibly! 😂

By Dahni & I-Magine
©️ 2020, all rights reserved

From my Work in Progress: ‘The Gathering Place Cook Book’, under the category of: beverages, ‘Sips with Susan’