Untimely Santa
Let's play Santa with the backyard children.
It is early fall with ashes and golds.
Touch the heads with hazel hairs, careless
tussle with them, offer sweets to the street
with patches of sunshine, brown and all crispy.
After all an autumn Sunday with a nip of chill
is coming in trough the window.
After all this is the month of birthdays.
After all it is your birthday.
After all everybody else have things to forget
and at this age you can not forget past, memories.
Only present becomes blur.
He wears a light sweater
with the enduring impressions
of the hands long gone.
Ha, repetitions of images and phrases are life.
Let's play Santa with them
who have trained themselves
to disbelieve every man, every woman,
every pervert and every sane.
Let's play autumn with an ol'man and
boys of backyards. © 2008 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar
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Now, How about a "Surfing Santa"? :
Surfing Santa
©Robert C Burnham
I went to the beach early on Christmas Eve
There was a party going on that you wouldn't believe
The spirits were flowing and the music was loud
All of the Beach Boys were mingling in the crowd
Elvis was singing that "Blue Christmas" song
When people pointed to a fat man in a red thong
He had a long white beard, it got quite the rave
As that jolly old fella’ stood up on a wave
Santa as a surfer? Man, that dude had a beat
Must have been a magic surfboard under his feet
He rode along the crest and then shot through the tube
Moving lightning fast - man that board was lubed
With the wink of an eye and a pipe in his mouth
He hollered "Merry Christmas", then turned the board south
Off to Hawaii where the waves are quite big
Santa decided, surfing was gonna be his new gig
So when you wake up on Christmas with no toys to play
That's because Santa's too busy - Surfing USA.
:+)
- R
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Why did you choose the colors for the type? The pink is hard to read.
Thanks so much for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
reading it a second time I did get some meaning from it Kushal. Very
different than what I usually read about old St. Nick !!
You and I each have 'Old Man' tales to tell. Both have "Santa Shadow" tone.
"After all everybody else have things to forget
and at this age you can not forget past, memories."
"Forget..." doesn't happen. To move through, and change our response to the underlying storyline can.
You're prolific creation of Pearls, dear sir, are ongoing efforts which spur us each over a twitch.
Thanks for sharing your content with Points Blitz!
am whelming over the waves bussy and helping myself !
Love the joy shared great poets of all time ever 'n' on remain, words on the sail !!!
I just wanted to stop by since I am finally going through what is now listed as under 3,900 pieces of gather new mail that is sitting in my inbox on here.
With that mentioned I just came across either a mailing from you yourself, or someone else brought this piece to my attention. You or they felt that your creation should be shared with the gather community, which I am very glad that it was passed on to me to view. So I wanted to say Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to publish it here on gather for us to all view. :o)
As well before I leave you I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year... in 2009 :o)