TYNESIDE POETS!

TYNESIDE POETS!

Wednesday 23 December 2015

STAR CHILD



Incandescent
Mistletoe pearl
Pendant
Glow over myth
Over
Gift in trinity
Chosen
Of God
Fetched
Through propitious
Observation
Through partial
Hope
In this vicinity
Etched
Into martial
Theodicy
Of this chosen
Nation
Holly crowned
Holly Haloed
Holy
Ghost writers
Entrenched
Positions fortified
Folly
Wound around
With
Coiled savage tinsel


Frozen
Shepherds and sprouts
Wine
Wafers or broken bread
Though
Evergreens are
Never green
Forever
The myth being
Unstable
Its truth
Lies
In the telling
In
The hearing
Fable
As fact
While
The star must stop
On
The tree top


Dave Alton