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...

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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...

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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! ❤️

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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

...

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( 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...

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The Christmas lights were dim

But, not as dim as Tim

Who opened all the doors

To let more light in! ?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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