Reindeer Report

- U.A.Fanthorpe

Chimneys: colder
Flightpaths: busier
Driver: Christmas (F)
Still baffled by postcodes.

Children: more
And stay up later.
Presents: heavier
Pay: frozen.

Mission in spite
Of all this
Accomplished

I Just Thought This Was Pretty

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BC : AD
by U.A. Fanthorpe

This was the moment when Before
Turned into After, and the future's
Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.

This was the moment when nothing
Happened. Only dull peace
Sprawled boringly over the earth.

This was the moment when even energetic Romans
Could find nothing better to do
Than counting heads in remote provinces.

And this was the moment
When a few farm workers and three
Members of an obscure Persian sect.
Walked haphazard by starlight straight
Into the kingdom of heaven.

The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems