I liked these, thanks for sharing em.
especially BC--AD is very impressive & warm.
KS
2008/12/22 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Christmas Poems by UA Fanthorpe
>
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3813257/Christmas-Poems-by-UA-Fanthorpe.html
>
> Since 1974, the poet UA Fanthorpe has been writing poems in her Christmas
> cards
> to friends – poems now collected in a single volume. Here are three of
> them…
>
> By UA Fanthorpe
>
>
> Reindeer Report
>
> Chimneys: colder.
> Flightpaths: busier.
> Driver: Christmas (F)
> Still baffled by postcodes.
> Children: more
> And stay up later.
> Presents: heavier.
> Pay: frozen.
> Mission in spite
> Of all this
> Accomplished –
> MERRY CHRISTMAS!
>
>
> BC–AD
>
> This was the moment when Before
> Turned into After, and the future's
> Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.
> This was the moment when nothing
> Happened. Only dull peace
> Sprawled boringly over the earth.
> This was the moment when even energetic Romans
> Could find nothing better to do
> Than counting heads in remote provinces.
> And this was the moment
> When a few farm workers and three
> Members of an obscure Persian sect
> Walked haphazard by starlight straight
> Into the kingdom of heaven.
>
>
> The Wicked Fairy at the Manger
>
> My gift for the child:
> No wife, kids, home;
> No money sense. Unemployable.
> Friends, yes. But the wrong sort –
> The workshy, women, wogs,
> Petty infringers of the law, persons
> With notifiable diseases,
> Poll tax collectors, tarts;
> The bottom rung.
> His end?
> I think we'll make it
> Public, prolonged, painful.
> Right, said the baby. That was roughly
> What we had in mind.
>
> Extracted from UA Fanthorpe's 'Christmas Poems', published by Enitharmon
> Press
> in paperback, £8·95
>
>
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