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.
