Tag Archives: English Poems on Festivals

Flowers: Gautam Buddha was the founder of the Buddhism religion. He was born in the ruling house of Kapilvastu, at Lumbini located at the foothills of Nepal in 566 B.C. His father’s name was Suddodhana. He was chief of the Shakya Republic. His mother, Mahamaya died, when he was only seven days old. Gautam Buddha was known by the name …

Christmas is celebrated every year on December 25. The festival marks the celebration of the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is worshipped as the Messiah of God in Christian Mythology. Hence, his birthday is one of the most joyous ceremonies amongst Christians. Although the festival is mainly celebrated by the followers of Christianity, it is one of the …

Christmas is Here: Its is a religious and cultural festival celebrated worldwide by the Christians. It is a celebration of the commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It comes on the 25th of December every year with full enthusiasm. In Christianity, people worship Jesus Christ as the son of the god and respect him. Jesus had born in a …

Day After Christmas: Christmas is an annual festival that falls on 25th December every year. Even though it is primarily the festival of Christians, but now-a-days it is celebrated by everyone irrespective of caste, creed, colour and religion. This is what makes this festival even more special. The festival spreads the lesson of love and is celebrated in the honour …

Christmas Alphabet: Kindergarten Poetry Christmas Alphabet: Christmas songs and rhymes that can be used when planning activities and curriculum for Preschool, PreK and Kindergarten children. A – for the animals, out in the stable,B – for the Babe in the manger cradle,C – for the carolers, happy and gay,D – for December, the 25th day,E – for the Eve when …

The Fool: Buddha’s Poetry – Siddhartha, who later became known as the Buddha – or The Enlightened One – was a prince who forsook the comforts of a palace to seek enlightenment. He realized the essential unreality of the world and experienced the bliss of Nirvana. After his enlightenment, he spent the remainder of his life teaching others how to …

I Have a Little Dreidel: The Hebrew word for dreidel is sevivon, which, as in Yiddish, means “to turn around”. It have four Hebrew letters on them, and they stand for the saying, Nes gadol haya sham, meaning A great miracle occurred there. In Israel, instead of the fourth letter shin, there is a peh, which means the saying is …

The Buddha At Kamakura: Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. A decade later, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), among a host of other works that made him hugely successful. Kipling was the recipient of the …

Easter Sunday: Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party. She had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, …

Easter Hymn: A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word hymn derives from Greek ὕμνος (hymnos), which means “a song of praise”. A writer of hymns is known as a hymnist. The singing …