I would like to decorate you
like a Christmas Tree.

A solid grip
at the base
to anchor you.

Glassy ornaments
to bring out your color.

Streams of tinsel
binding
and floating in mere
thought of a breeze.

Here and there,
a bauble from the past,
ensuring the link from
then to now.

The simplest of lights,
glowing on the outside,
and casting revealing shadows
on your form
.

Candy canes and strings of popcorn;
sticky sweet, buttery, salty.

The simple blanket,
wrapped around
to catch what falls.

And who could forget
the crowning touch of a halo?

Yes, sometimes I would like to decorate you
as gaudy as a tree can be.

Mostly,
I would like
to see you
in nothing at all.

The perfect shape
wants for nothing,
but to be seen.

Dec"o*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decorated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Decorating (?).] [L. decoratus, p. p. of decorare, fr. decus ornament; akin to decere to be becoming. See Decent.]

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. Thackeray.

Syn. -- To adorn; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace. See Adorn.

Decorated style Arch., a name given by some writers to the perfected English Gothic architecture; it may be considered as having flourished from about a. d. 1300 to a. d. 1375.

 

© Webster 1913.

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