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A Long Christmas Night
by Richard Reed Jr
copyright 02-16-2008


Age Rating: 7 to 127

 
'Twas the night before christmas, no snow no rain
I wondered how I came this far from home
Sand dunes sprawled like the wreck of a train
I lifted a cigarette to my mouth and dragged

A taste of dust, blown
Over the damned holy land
I hunkered like a piece of hardened stone
Spat spit to the sand, peered into the void

Peace on earth, good will to all
None of it glistened in my line of sight
Shifting moon shadows, casting a pall
Bearers of fear, lit up the night


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02-17-2008 Walter Jones    

The words work the parody falls in, my mind is trapped, image verse, all play before eyes sear hing, wonder and voice, the writer is a conduit of life want and need for better, Walt
02-16-2008 Eric Gasparich    

Much as I would love to think those words amount to a blanket pardon for us all, the correct rendering of that verse is "peace on earth to men of good will." You're poem seems to be a sad recognition that, sadly, not all men are of good will. So we must yet wend our way through the "devils we know" but always with the hope that one day our wending will meet an ending. In the meantime, "wise as serpents, gentle as doves, hope for the best, prepare for the worst" seems to be the way of it.

God help all who are of good will and may there come a time when they (myself among them, I hope) are the only ones around.
01-01-2008 Deborah Thomas    

Do I detect a reminder of our boys and girls serving on this Christmas in the sand? This as we all get fat 'round the fire; eating whichever holiday meal we celebrate.
And then your inevitable standard I have come to expect in most of your work: an implication of death. A play on words in the end, as well the draw to the imagination of heavy mortar.
Very cynical and appropriate in this political time. Although many of us would rather ignor and enjoy....
12-26-2007 Mike Gallimore    

This is a very edgy Christmas poem, Richard. It conjures up an image of Bogart in Casablanca on Christmas Eve -- forget about the exit papers, baby; it's Christmas and you aren't going nowhere.

Well done!
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