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Climbing A Ladder To Heaven🎄
Oh, how I love the snow, the holidays,
Th’ popcorn strings, stockings & color lights.
The caroling, the stable, manger plays,
With baby Jesus, matinees some nights.
It’s such a happy time this neighborhood,
Where we all know each other & the dog.
To give until it hurts & does some good,
Men stand around & grin & drink egg nog.
But just the other day before first snow
As Papa in the driveway parked the Jeep,
Then lifting, opened double garage doors,
Revealing me in tinsel three feet deep.
It’s now the time of year when I will be
The most popular helper ‘round the house,
To reach and help Papa put up the tree
Which cheers up everyone even the mouse.
The kids who laugh & run between my legs
All shout w’ glee when do we see the Clause?
The dog looks sad at me & starts to beg,
& puts its front legs up to rest its paws.
It’s Papa who’s outside by the garage,
Who calls for “Each one of you, take a box!”
The smallest ones race into the barrage,
To drag & trip as stuff falls out like socks.
Meantime, I’m lifted up & on the run,
& set my sturdy feet in flower bed.
Then Papa starts to climb up, rung by rung,
W’ string o’lights in hand, reaches my head.
Till end of day the roof at last is done,
His brood of six below look up in awe.
There’s Papa bathed in wonder; ev’ryone:
I hope this all will stay up till spring’s thaw!
Published 4th Aug 2018
Author's Note
One of my poems written for & entered in RevolutionAL’s competition “Personification.” (about a step-ladder)
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4th Aug 2018 5:30pm
Absolutely engaging.
Yep, run between those legs, and all you get is socks! :-)
Loved this.
Good Luck in the comp.
Yep, run between those legs, and all you get is socks! :-)
Loved this.
Good Luck in the comp.
5th Aug 2018 10:22am
Aww *chuckles*, thank you so much, sweetheart, I love how you have summarized the piece: wonderfully full of life’s love & irony.
~Jade x
~Jade x
5th Aug 2018 1:02am
Fine job with the ladder personification. It takes so much imagination to extrapolate such visions from an inanimate object. You catch the Christmas spirit well, particularly with your father. Excellent work, whatever the season. A breath of cold, fresh air in the long, hot summer.
5th Aug 2018 10:30am
“A breath of cold, fresh air in the long, hot summer.”
Amen to that, my crowfly friend! It was lovely to be writing about a time of first snow, and holiday emotions, while during an ongoing summer here that will wind up being the worst I will have known in memory.
I’m so pleased to know of your enjoyment!
Amen to that, my crowfly friend! It was lovely to be writing about a time of first snow, and holiday emotions, while during an ongoing summer here that will wind up being the worst I will have known in memory.
I’m so pleased to know of your enjoyment!
5th Aug 2018 3:04pm
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