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Meta Clause
Santa's not coming this year
He's sick of all the ‘tech’
Nobody wants the good ol’ stuff
It's all gone a bit Star Trek!
Xbox, PlayStation, IPhone,
Fit bit, airpods, Meta!
Will it ever end?
It definitely won't get any better!
It may be a feast for the eyes
But, don't eat those mince pies!
It's a feast for your slumbering belly!
In front of your gamin...
Friday 15th December 2023 5:03 pm
A Christmas Bauble
As snow came down
her wondrous eyes
flared as bright
as winter skies
She imagined they fell
from Santa's sleigh
And that he might
pop down & say:
What a good girl
you've been this year
You may get more
than an apple & pear!
And through a window
frosted lightly,
she saw a snowman
fat, but sprightly!
He danced & raised
his batt...
Wednesday 14th December 2022 12:07 pm
I still believe!
Mam,
What was it you said
As a I lay in my bed
One snowy Christmas Eve?
That if I believe
In what I receive
Comes from a magical place
Then, the world can be yours
There'll be open doors
Into realms
beyond our time & space
***
Merry Christmas & a better New Year to all on planet WOL! ❤️
Wednesday 22nd December 2021 5:19 pm
The Last Noel
In the bed, she lay
So tired & so frail
Like the room itself
So colourless & pale
At least, through the window
She could see the snowflakes dance
Falling in a serenade
To a winter's night romance
Her bed sores burned like hell
In this purgatory of self
A forgotten thing called living
Lay dormant on its shelf
But the snow fell so dreamlike
...
Wednesday 15th December 2021 4:26 pm
A Silhouette In Time (re-post)
( click on the live motion link below to get that lovely crackling fire sound ?)
On cold winter nights like these
When flaming hues of orange and red
flicker and sway upon the walls
of a darkened room
The past can find its way back
Seeping out of cracks, long-since filled
Through floorboards, long-since replaced
Soft and hushed,
ingrained in the periphe...
Saturday 11th December 2021 5:06 pm
Dim Tim
The Christmas lights were dim
But, not as dim as Tim
Who opened all the doors
To let more light in! ?
Wednesday 8th December 2021 6:06 pm
The Falling of Snow
It takes me back to a boy;
the falling of snow
To a fluffy, white street
under a streetlight's dull glow:
Where an old man trudges through
Each foot now a plough
Eyes squinting to see
The here and the now
I watch from a window
My youthful eyes wide
Thinking: move to the road
Then you can slide!
But he carries on trudging
As I shake my youn...
Monday 21st December 2020 4:19 pm
A Ghost Of Christmas Past
Granda's slouched
In his fave comfy chair
A Christmas cracker party hat
Hides his four strands of hair
His wife always said:
'Get the buggers cut!'
But he wasn't quite ready
To be a total baldy nut!
He wishes she was here now
Nagging at full pelt:
'If ye eat or drink one more thing,
yer gonna burst your belt!'
And Sophie's eyes sparkle
L...
Friday 11th December 2020 2:22 pm
The Nasty Little Snowman
The nasty little snowman
Wasn't made of all things nice
They'd patted him together
With, mostly, dirty ice
He had rusty bolts for eyes
And a beer bottle nose
A frozen dog turd mouth
And a piece of garden hose
shoved up his frozen arse.
The kids found this so funny
But, when he opened his dogshit mouth
They all ran home to mummy!
Such expletives he...
Wednesday 9th December 2020 5:17 pm
A Winter Escape
Thank you to talented local musician Stuart Bell for turning it into a lovely Christmas ditty!
(a re-post, but it seems more appropriate now! ⛄)
Like comets we slid through the crisp, white grass
In our wake billowed a powder-puff mass
It floated and swirled and twinkled with light
Like low-hanging stars broke free of the night
And in snow-laden fields angels were...
Sunday 6th December 2020 10:32 am
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