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A Better Christmas
so, a time for warm memories?
fond loved ones from the past?
Christmas 2019 one to forget
I thought it might prove my last
parrot strangled in trimmings
wife, shopping after a row, got
took short, skidded off the path
tree trimmed by a snow plough
house got burgled Christmas Eve
at which your festive spirit palls
he nicked the replacement spruce
complete ...
Thursday 24th December 2020 10:20 am
She Felled My Tree
before doing a runner
she cut down my tree
pine needles all over
festive debris to see
fairy dead on the rug
each bauble smashed
lights cables tangled
my Christmas dashed
should have twigged it,
axe-heads lit her eyes
our rapport splintering
ate my last mince pies
a forest of complaints
calling me dead wood
unhappy with my log
called my p...
Saturday 19th December 2020 10:51 am
Forced
its a far cry from Bucharest
in this dark and earthy shed,
thinks of her tearful mother
the man she's shortly to wed
draughts slice wooden walls,
rats scuttering in the hay-loft,
rubbing her hands for warmth
tells herself not to be so soft
slim candles shadow the gloom,
bloke appears in muddy boots,
shoving his wheelbarrow in a
mini-forest of sprouting ro...
Friday 11th December 2020 10:45 am
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