Monday, December 22, 2008

Reindeer Report





Since 1974, the poet UA Fanthorpe has been writing poems in her Christmas cards to friends – poems now collected in a single volume. Here is one of them:

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!


There's more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3813257/Christmas-Poems-by-UA-Fanthorpe.html


Thanks to Max Richards, Australian poet, who brought this to my attention.

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