Hound of Heaven Hymns

Poetry list

all aboard

each year we buy
a ticket for Christmas
but do we ever arrive
we get off somewhere
at 25 December
where do we find
ourselves is there
a birth and a
miracle the promise
of peace and goodwill
for all the wonder of
a world none can make
and lasts for ever the
rich and the spoilt
struggle to find new
joys and simple
surprises pleasure
palls overindulging
bloats and burps
our blindness and
futility kindness
and care are not
bottled for sale
rare and precious
in the scramble
for deadlines and
dates to impress
and imprison us
in pointless parties
and pitiless plenty
the lights twinkle
and the music
plays as the roistering
neurotic shopping
train hurtles through
December to the
buffers of January
please can we get
off and hear the
angels