{"id":1132,"date":"2007-12-24T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:46:16","slug":"a-christmas-collection-from-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-christmas-collection-from-ist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Collection from IS&T"},"content":{"rendered":"

We'd like to wish all our readers \u2013 all 3500 of you \u2013 a Happy Christmas and here are some seasonal offerings by Tish Davis, Maureen Weldon and Chris Major…<\/span>


Two haiku by Tish Davis<\/span>

virgin snow<\/span>
a young boy runs ahead<\/span>
to warn the rabbit<\/span>
 <\/span>
  ***<\/span>
 <\/span>
these woods again<\/span>
a leaf frozen<\/span>
in the spider web<\/span>


\u2022 Tish Davis lives and works in the US.  Her haibun have appeared in <\/span>Contemporary Haibun Online<\/span>. Recently one of her haiku was recognized as a <\/span>Poem of Merit<\/span> in the <\/span>R.H. Blyth Awards<\/span> for 2007.


Like Soap Bubbles by Maureen Weldon<\/span>

Winter: like soap bubbles<\/span>
in a washing-up bowl.<\/span>
This will not last,<\/span>
this cup, that plate,<\/span>
the garden reflecting in my eye.<\/span>
Or my lover \u2013 he used to hold my heart \u2013<\/span>
who has a golden tongue \u2013<\/span>
a gift for music.<\/span>

I brushed his body<\/span>
with my long red hair.<\/span>
It was Christmas then,<\/span>
it is Christmas now :<\/span>
green crates of decorations,<\/span>
bottles of wine, flickering candles.<\/span>
I see them on my kitchen window,<\/span>
mirrored in fairy lights<\/span>
and parcels of secrets.<\/span>

From the hall, three little boys<\/span>
Are singing <\/span>Silent Night<\/span>,<\/span>
to the rhythm of their money-box.<\/span>
Now my daughter shuts the door<\/span>
the sound goes round and round.<\/span>
In the sink the suds have sunk,<\/span>
In the centre: a star.<\/span>



To poems \u2013 one concrete \u2013 by Chris Major<\/span>

PROTEST POEM<\/span>
 <\/span>
Every Christmas<\/span>
it's the same:<\/span>
given without<\/span>
much thought,<\/span>
the perfect choice<\/span>
for a festive season.<\/span>
Oh, there should be<\/span>
stickers everywhere,<\/span>
for they are not<\/span>
just for Christmas;<\/span>
because the novelty<\/span>
soon wears thin,<\/span>
and abandoned,<\/span>
pushed aside<\/span>
they are cruelly left,<\/span>
good only to blame<\/span>
odd farts on……….<\/span>
……….bloody sprouts.<\/span>


 <\/span>SOMEWHERE (footprints)<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
               soon her<\/span>
            step will fill:<\/span>
        flowers 'n' cards<\/span>
      as guilty neighbours<\/span>
      churn to snowy slush<\/span>
       a blank white page <\/span>
         of garden path.<\/span>
 <\/span>
         Too little then,<\/span>
         and too late,<\/span>
         all print that<\/span>
         is this poem's<\/span>
             shape.<\/span>


\u2022 Chris Major is a regular IS&T contributor<\/span>

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