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This Christmas
Its Christmas, dont you know I’m an Oklahoma native. I’ve been a poet & lyricist
This Chirstmas all I want is snow my entire life. As long as I can recall back from early
God’s already provided us everything we need childhood. But from a broken family & tough child-
in our new New Hampshire home hood & adolescence, I never had much opportunity
to learn music, or be around musicians. But I wrote,
The only thing left on my wishlist sang in the shower & dreamed. I couldnt play any
is to spent it in the glistening snow instrument & allowed that to hold me back. Finally
This Christian already celebrates all year long at 28, I moved to Nashville. Married a professional
So this year all my wishes have been granted keyboardist who worked for Young Chang Piano
Except to spend my first northern winter Company. But that didnt work out in my favor like
In the White Mountains, high, hi I had hoped. Moved back to Arkansas in 2003 to
be with my dying father. Married again & hung up
I’ll be singing a happy ho ho ho the dream. Until it nearly killed my soul. I was on
to all you Southern folks the wrong path & felt disappointed in myself, as if I
We don’t see much snow in Broken Bow had missed my calling. 12 years of physical sickness,
unequally yoked partnership & internally unhappy, I
So This Christmas, all i want is snow filed for divorce 3 years ago. Walked away with noth-
Ole man winter visits ing just to get out.
for more that just a brew or two I took my briefcase down from my closet where I had
Oh yea, he wants dinner, wine, aproximately 60 song lyrics written. I prayed over
& a recliner too them. I told God, if he would give me my health &
Settle down for a long winters nap or two talent back I’d vow to pursue the vision he have me
I’ll watch the snow pile from my easy chair come what may. My miracle came in my health with
where I’m warm hard work, a complete rebuild of the old me began
to transform me & my fate. That’s when the blessings
and Ill make snow angels began to rain. I started writing & singing again every
I’ll take my five then come back day. But there was still a very big mountain to crum-
and get warm by the fire ble. I was 50, broke, & homeless.
This season all I want is snow
So from a borrowed broken hand me down cellphone
with full Verizon service that my lifelong dear friend
To spend Christmas in a pretty red bow afforded me, I began adding my acapella songs to
In the glistning snow Reverbnation. I began to grow fans & get fantastic
This Christmas, all I wanna do comments that fueled me. I felt like finally I was on
is spend it with family & friends the right path God chose for me. Finally after joining
In the glistning snow International Singer Songwriter Accociation, I met a
Veteran Cover Tribute artist Tony Carlozzi. I was in
Lyrics and vocals by Queen Regina Palmer Oklahoma, he was in Brockton, MA. We worked a
plan & executed it to come together for music. Thus
Tony Carlozzi on Guitar becoming the Gigglefits. That was in May, 2019, just
All copyrights reserved 2019 over 6 months ago. The growth is astounding.
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