Kit Kelen #723 - three christmas poems

723

three christmas poems

1

Christmas is a long way off

and summer is too much

the picture everywhere unfinished

so that it takes the eye

everyone arrives

the uncle ghosts

and mum and dad

nod all agreed

the new world's

under the Christmas tree

you'd go exploring there

next winter's fire

stacked by the drive

like new car smell

it isn't a single idea

cicada is a shell behind

and welcome to some other world

by means of merest agitation

broke through that sticky web

and blowfly rattling up down

all along the big glass slider

is wanting out as well

2

2000 years born Jesus

hello cruel world

2000 years of mother Mary

her birth howl

with angels on

because that bearded boy

sang swan

and she was pure as snow

*

liver's turned to paté

who's a fat goose now?

3

mixed message

he reigns forever

in a mind of kings

a little kindness

saves who sings

except we are at war

he is before the word's beginning

leaves us all for laughter

each of us is called to christmas

it is all flesh

and satiation

hard working man

and brave

a gift is of

the otherworldly

someone's to burn later

and crusading

here's a dove

lord of lords

and thank the host

fish so let's

walk water

three kings come

to womanly Jesus

he hangs out with

mothering God

with all of kindness come

if you believe

angels have wings

a little kindness

saves who sings

lamb and lion

zombie riser

he is fish and word

the one who is rain fallen

prayed for

and land sighted too

he is the all before it was

an alphabet gives chase

here in my gumtree underworld

I am the vanished vanquished of it

is it double Sunday

at cicada pitch?

make mine an upside down day

with infant pauper king

he does all kinds

of heaven things

a little kindness

saves who sings

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coda

it's Monday

remember to put out the bin

and

what will we do to undo what we've done

now that our Christmas is come?