Roller Coaster Christmas
\nby cricketjeff on November 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThere’s a frost that’s painted pictures on the bedroom window pane,
\nThere’s a blackbird finding titbits in the brickwork round the drain.
\nWhen the dawn arrived this morning there was something in the air
\nWith a freezing Christmas daybreak there is beauty everywhere.<\/p>\n
All the fairy lights and tinsel, all the shiny Christmas bells,
\nThen the agonies of choosing and last minute shopper’s hells.
\nToo much turkey, too much stuffing, too much wine and too much beer.
\nWhy do we all sit and suffer in the same ways every year?<\/p>\n
Little children waking early finding stockings by the bed;
\nWhile their Dads pretend they’re sleeping, unconvincing sleepy-head.
\nPretty daughter is embarrassed, holding earrings from a boy.
\nMother’s radio plays carols and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.<\/p>\n
Auntie Maggie sent a jumper that is never going to fit,
\nAnd that album by Cliff Richard isn’t going to be a hit.
\nNow Dad’s busy in the kitchen putting sprouts into the pan,
\nWhile he’s silently complaining he got socks AGAIN from Nan.<\/p>\n
There is stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, “who wants leg and who wants breast?”
\nThere are peas, green beans and carrots, Brussels sprouts and all the rest.
\nThen a flaming Christmas pudding lots of brandy, custard, cream,
\nWith meringues for all the children it’s a feast fit for a dream.<\/p>\n
Will they ever stop that shouting? Have I got the strength to stand?
\nSurely games so loud and graphic should be Bowdlerised or banned.
\nSome want tea and some want coffee, let’s ignore the children’s scene
\nBut we have sit down quiet there’s a film after “The Queen”.<\/p>\n
Can life get more satisfying than the whinge of too much food?
\nAnd a cup of tea or coffee while the Christmas cake is chewed.
\nEverybody’s either sleepy or wrapped up inside a book,
\nEven children are quite quiet, and I’m too well fed to look.<\/p>\n
On this best and worst occasion, on this busiest of days,
\nThere are thoughts that don’t bear thinking and some dreams that will amaze.
\nThough not everywhere is peaceful, half the World still isn’t free,
\nThere is nothing quite like Christmas and it seems alright to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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