Just post Xmas 2016

I love christmas for the push it gives me into giving, going round the shops thinking about other people for a change, the opportunity to hook up with old and even forgotten friends by card, the visits I get from old dear friends, all the times that it inspires love and kindness rather than scarey consumer madness, the morning chocolate from the advent calendar, the christmas haiku meeting with the haiku christmas cards, getting the tree, lighting the tree, the way people turn their minds and hearts to the needy, the way I do, the singing, playing the recorder in the Horsforth orchestra, the feasts, the supra, making christmas cards, receiving christmas cards, the party on my road, those few days off work when the email goes quiet, the lights and the glow that shine on us from our older solstice festivals, the promise of lighter days, the darker starrier nights, the thought of new resolutions, old resolutions renewed, new beginnings, christmas cake, nutroast, beautifully steamed brussel sprouts oh yum, meeting up with my younger relatives, meeting up with my older relatives, the impromptu and the planned christmas dinners and outings, the reckonings of life/finances/happiness, and the consequent intentions and determinations to do better, the mixture therefore of enjoyment and good hopes, the much 'liked' videos of wise words and wise people (Desmond Tutu and Dalai Lama), the singing, the loving, the forgiving, the living.

Now can I take that text and make it the background for a poem? Will do, will do