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    A Twirly-Swirly Christmas
    A Twirly-Swirly Christmas
    A Twirly-Swirly Christmas
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    A Twirly-Swirly Christmas

    By Shirley Richards

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    In this, Shirley's forth volume of poetry, she has collected her annual Christmas poems from the last few decades, a tradition her card recipients have come to expect and be delighted with. Now Shirley has made this private collection available to the world at large for the first time. Her poems canvas a wide spectrum of topics, though all are C

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenney Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2021
    ISBN9780645041736
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      A Twirly-Swirly Christmas - Shirley Richards

      Tree of Hope

      Surprisingly, or maybe as things stand of late with the delta scare, I may have inadvertently decided to leave the Christmas tree up as a token or symbol of hope.

      Hope for a better year in 2021 or maybe it’s a feeling that because Christmas 2020 was a bit of a fizzier I’m not taking it down as a type of protest, almost like I’m stretching Christmas over to make up for the non-Christmas of last year. It’s the very first time in my 62 years as a home maker that the Christmas tree has been left up for a whole year.

      I do have a large fibre-optic Christmas tree with lights and bling but I put up a small Christmas tree last year for the almost non-Christmas festivities. This year I’m bringing out the big guns with the flashing lights, then, I’ll have one big Christmas tree and one small making it a real Christmas celebration with a winking, blinking, chameleon.

      But I must add that life is so precious. It’s well worth bearing up to a few snap lockdowns until Christmas if need be… so maybe that is why the tree of hope is still standing since 2020, as a sign of real healing-hope for me, my family, my friends and relations, and for everyone.

      Hold onto hope, dear reader!

      November 2021

      Warrnambool, Vic

      Australia

      It’s been there all year

      No partridge

      In a pear tree

      No gold rings

      No French hens

      On the 2020th

      Day of Christmas...

      It’s been there all year

      It won’t disappear

      It looks a bit tired

      There’s no place

      To hide

      It’s been there all year

      There’s no bling

      There is no light

      It’s a miserable sight

      It’s been there all year

      It won’t disappear

      No one looks twice

      It’s lost charm

      It’s not nice

      It’s been there all year

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