A Christmas Carol: a Poem by Bez Berry

Author:Bez Berry [Berry, Bez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781483542331
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

But the customers were hurried and eager, you might say,

In hopeful promise of another joyful Christmas day.

They tumbled up against each other madly at the door,

With wildly crashing wicker baskets, pushed in to the store.

They sometimes left their purchases upon the counter top

And came running back to fetch them, without a thought to stop.

They committed hundreds of mistakes like this through the day,

In the best humour possible before they'd tear away.

While the grocer and his people were frank and fresh and kind,

That the polished hearts that fastened their aprons from behind

Just might have been their own, worn for their clients to suppose

They were there for their inspection or 'daws to peck. Who knows?

Soon steeples called to all good folk to worship on this day,

In Sunday clothes, to look their best, as they knelt down to pray.

Each wore their gayest face and at the same time there emerged

From scores of bye-streets, lanes and nameless turnings folk converged.

Innumerable people came who had no time to stop,

For they were carrying their dinners to the baker's shop.

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