'Twas the Night Before Christmas......'

kathjake · 17 December 2016 at 10:08AM

Thought I'd shared a poem I wrote for a comp last month. It didn't win but as the prize was £5K I'm guessing the competition was pretty fierce...!! Hope it raises a smile or two

(The comp was with TGI Fridays....each initial letter of each stanza spells it out)

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
‘crept a Mother, unsteady, on her third glass of Grouse.

Grumpy and frazzled with tape in her hair,
Last minute wrapping almost too much to bear.

In hope, to her husband, she pointed her head,
But snoring and useless on couch was he spread.

Flecks of mince pie still clung to his ‘tache,
And Sherry had fallen to floor with a splash.

“Right then!” she muttered “let’s get to work”,
“I can do this without help from that jerk!”

Inspired and excited, she knocked back his sherry,
Her eyes - how they twinkled! Double vision - how merry!

Dolls, new weird Furbies, Lego head to put bricks in,
On tables, on worktops, on carpet, in kitchen.

Attacking all floor space! To the top of the wall!
Now wrap away! Wrap away! Wrap away all!

Yawning, now finished, four hours left to sleep,
Before two slumbered angels awake with a leap.

She stated, “NEXT year, with all of my might”,
“will I plan it and wrap it, BEFORE this eve night!”

(Kath Taylor, 2016)

:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: Happy Crimbo fellow compers.....here's to lots of wins for us all in 2017 :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: