Be warned, this isn't poetry as you're expecting.  It's greeting card style "stuff", intended to inspire a smile and an embarrassed "awwww".

I wrote two poems yesterday, one for my brother and one for my parents.  For Christmas in my family, the adult kids and spouses all choose names.  This year I tried to propose simplifying, maybe just a small gift and a donation, times being as they are.   We couldn't all agree on that, but I decided to go ahead with it.  So I wrote the first poem to put in the card to my younger brother, along with a note where I told him he's a great "little brother" (he's considerably bigger than me these days of course!) 

I wrote it out in green and red magic marker, this is what it looked like:

I feel we have so many gifts
And others have so few
I'm sharing part of yours with them
Hope it's OK with you

I have sent you a new book to read
I hope it makes you laugh
We're also helping those in need
I hope it's not a gaffe!

We all have so much to give
Our family loves well
Perhaps we'll help some others have
A Christmas really swell

Next, I wrote one to my parents.  My mom loves this stuff, I can just see her laughing at it.  They said they didn't want anything this year.  I sent them flowers and a couple of books and this poem:

To mom and dad at Christmas

Christmas is a family time,
whether here or there
because we live so far away
it's hard to show we care

so this little poem I wrote
to say more than a card
even tho as it turns out
I'm not much of a bard

2008 has come and gone
and lots of fun was had
in july we got to see you both
and for that we are glad

2009 may be a time
for cutbacks, yes it's true
but something we will never cut
is coming to see you

so at some point in the year to come
you'll hear 'we're coming out!'
and wing our way to you we will
and try not to wear you out

so merry christmas! mom and dad
and happy new year, too
We hope you feel across the miles
the love we send to you

Go ahead and laugh, it's OK.  That was the spirit in which this "poetry" was intended.  I can appreciate true poetry, trust me.  But I just don't take myself that seriously, I love a good pun and a good rhyme, too.