[stylist] Poem - "Christmas Card" - Second Draft
William L Houts
lukaeon at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 19:43:33 UTC 2014
Hey Wits and Poets:
Something for the season, I suppose. Comments welcome, as always.
--Bill
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Christmas Card
Neither angels nor elves, their toys
and trumpets announcing Christmas Land fun,
but a still and sober nature:
a buck, a rabbit, a golden-eyed owl
arrested in stances,
this winter commune, as actual
as unmythed frozen earth:
These creatures gazed, with liquid eyes
upon a rare sky'sprophet star.
sofree, this card, of kitsch it slipped
my cynical guard and struck me
crucial hard:I broke open to faith,
and found some years the solace of bread
and wine. I'm lying, mind,a tiny pip;
other starbolts, too, conspired for me to take
the Saint James plunge. I'm unchurched now,
but how I grant that Christmas card
a nod for herding me to Catholic pews:
abandoned now, but cherished, kept.
I do retain a miracle soul: respect
the wisdom of chance and change: I dream,
I play, I bathe, waters of love and rain
my only church,more bloodfelt than the Dove.
--
"Oh, Sophie! Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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