Susan and Bob "The Honeymooners"
Broadway New York City Our Honeymoon July 1979

CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK

Published Long Short Story Dec. 2012

This time of year

New York’s cheer

Visitors see the sights

By New York’s lights

Christmas serenade

Santa Claus parade

Coming out to see

Rockefeller Center’s tree

Park Avenue by way

Store windows display

Tiffany’s glitzy gifts

Merry spirits lifts

Broadway shows

New York’s aglow

Museum of Art

The city at heart

Christmas foretells

Sidewalk Santa’s bells

St. Patrick’s cast

The Midnight Mass

Crowds at Times Square

New Year’s Eve – be there

Take a holiday walk

Christmas in New York

Susan Marie Davniero

Susan, Bob and Mom
Rockfeller Center NYC
(Dad took Photo)

ALL IN NEW YORK CITY

The people flock

Upon city blocks

To find there

Sites everywhere

All sharing streets

The city pulse beats

East side, west side

From far and wide

Tours meeting

For sightseeing

Memory intact

City streets map

Take a Taxi fare

Lights of Times Square

Walk Central Park

Visit Museum of Art

Dress in Fifth Ave.fashion

Politics of Gracie Mansion

Glitzy Theatre district

Church of St. Patrick

The Four Seasons

The U.N. allegiances

Statue of Liberty

Feasts in Little Italy

Too much to list to see

All in New York City

Susan Marie Davniero

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Bob and Susan with Santa
Knights of Columbus Lindenhurst Flea Market

CHRISTMAS BELLS

Published Pancakes in Heaven

Hear Christmas bells

Blessed holiday tells

In joyous tinkling

Listen bells jingling

Let us all rejoice

Harmony in voice

Carolers in rhyme

With every chime

Christmas bells ring

Gathering we sing

Today all is well

Hear Christmas bells

Susan Marie Davniero

IN SEARCH OF CHRISTMAS LOVE

Published Coffee Grounds for Breakfast

In search of

Christmas love

Glitter left behind

I come to find

Holy silent night

By the star’s light

Guided path’s way

On this sacred day

Hail to His praise

Blessed our days

Hear Angels sing

Our Savior King

This blessed eve

Faith will believe

Christ our King

Gift of everything

Behold Jesus birth

Peace on earth

In search of

Christmas love

Susan Marie Davniero

Coffee Grounds for Breakfast Published

Published This Week Newspaper

Unwrapping Christmas Day

Dedicated to husband, Bob

Published Long Story Short

My husband Bob’s birthday

Is nearby Christmas Day

His December 23 birthday

Comes only two days away

Christmas Eve is tomorrow

And yet it is Bob who follows

The Lord Jesus Holy way

Unwrapping Christmas Day

Wishing Bob Happy Birthday

written by Susan Marie Davniero

Coffee, Dad and Me

(In memory of Gerard Fischetti)

Published Long Story Short

I was only five that Christmas morn

When I woke at the crack of dawn

I dash to look under the Christmas tree

To find a Christmas present just for me

It was Tea Cup set in blue plastic

Packaging read toy Wedgewood replica

With tea cup and saucer in my hand

To the kitchen in slippers scurrying I ran

I went to pour coffee for Dad and me

He preferred coffee to a pot of tea

Drinking from my cup to my lip

Plastic bitter taste with every sip

Although just the same

Daddy didn’t want to complain

He had good taste and was polite

Even if the coffee he didn’t like

I knew he did it because he loved me

More than he loved any cup of coffee

That one Christmas season

My Dad taught me a lesson

Sometimes good taste would

Not always taste good

Written by Susan Marie Davniero

SANTA PULLS THE CHRISTMAS STRINGS

Published Long Story Short

I recall the Christmas morning of yesteryear when I was growing up. That morning my sisters and I hurried down stairs to our red and white checkered Christmas Stockings with our names in sparkles. We all found one of a “Dennis the Menace” (comic character) puppet set in each of our stockings.

Happily by chance there were three puppets in the set – each for one of us. Maybe that was why “Santa” would give us the set of three knowing my parents always taught us to share and share alike.

Santa gave me the mother/wife character puppet with blond hair wearing apron, because Mom always told me I had a heart of gold, Santa gave my older sister, Teresa the father puppet for she was the older sister, and my twin sister, Laura, received the star puppet – Dennis the little rascal running around town – much like Laura’s high spirit.

But who knew that I would one day grow up to be a married wife, Teresa would wear glasses and Laura would grow up to marry a man named, “Dennis” a little rascal of his own - yet this time she didn’t pull the strings.

Apparently Santa knew and pulls the strings on Christmas. Santa knows best after all.

Written by;

Susan Marie Davniero

Photo Attachment Me and My Sisters w/pupperts (Susan Laura and Teresa Christmas Morning)

SANTA PULLS THE CHRISTMAS STRINGS

Published Pink Chameleon

It was a Christmas morning of yesterday

When our stockings hung on the stairway

My sisters and I hurried down the stairs

To find our Christmas stocking gifts there

Santa came and gave my sisters and me,

Puppets from ‘Dennis the Menace’ family

Santa gave me the wife with blonde tresses

Teresa unwrap the Dad puppet wearing glasses

Laura’s gift was Dennis the child of the three

‘Tis all came to be our Christmas destiny

For one day I grew up to become a wife,

Teresa wore glasses most of her life,

and Laura fell in love and married

to a man named Dennis he carried

This is a memory that Christmas brings

When Santa pulled the Christmas strings

Susan Marie Davniero

Yesterday’s Christmas Blues

Published Pancakes in Heaven

After Christmas Day

A snapshot of yesterday

There by trash cans I see

A discarded Christmas tree

Once green and alive tree

Is now all but a memory

After Christmas Day I miss

All the blessings of Christmas

Gather all the people and try

To keep the holiday spirit alive

Living each and every day

As if it was Christmas Day

Like returning holiday gifts

Exchange what doesn’t fit

Yesterday’s Christmas blues

For today’s good news

Written by Susan Marie Davniero

N.Y. films have affairs to remember

New York Daily News

When we asked for your favorite local holiday movies, we had a feeling one might pull ahead of the pack--and you didn't prove us entirely wrong.

"My favorite is 'Miracle on 34th Street,'" Susan Marie Davniero, "given that it celebrates the meaning of the holiday season: you have to believe even when common sense tells you not to. Watching it is like unwrapping a gift. Miracles do come true in the movies."

CITY LIMITS

A home to find

In a city skyline

Map a guide book

Worth a second look

See people meet

Walking the street

Your favorite places

The neighbors’ faces

Streets are calendars

Of who you are

It’s all still there

Here and everywhere

The city saw all that

And remembers what

It took to make it

Within city limits

Susan Marie Davniero

BABYLON BEACON PUBLISHED

Christmas Presents - Christmas is not about the Christmas presents...it is about being present at Church Mass, visiting, volunteering, or being with the ones you love and family and friends. Give a priceless present of yourself for a true Christmas gift. Be present this Christmas.

Sincerely,

Susan and Robert Davniero