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THIS PAGEIt answers the 10-word challenge, found below.
Cinnamon ScentsIt was a wrapped and ribboned box
with a crimson bow as big on top.
Inside, a humble ornament,
an emerald ball on lace-like cloth
he hoped would find approval.
They'd have a small event this year
since work was scarce for both;
no gaudy frills, no useless gifts
that cost a ton of money,
no debt-loads pushed ahead
into a clean new year.
A simple scent of cinnamon
will go with winter's evergreen,
a holly branch or two or three
with carmine colored berries,
and background music, choirs sing
a hymn, a carol, season's songs –
let all the city simmer by,
they'll sit beside their fire.
It's but a humble ornament
wrapped up with all his love.
He tapped the box, then set it down.
10 required words >>>
Wrap, bow, ornament, emerald,
scent, cinnamon, berry, sing, simmer,
tap.