This Poem was Submitted By: carole j mennie On Date: 2002-01-02 17:29:15 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Christmas Gift

When we blew into New York City from Jersey last night, the Rockettes were kicking it up and sidewalk Santas were parading, charading, on every corner, their white beards and mustaches stuck on with spirit gum. We gave them loose change, shiny dimes and quarters, over and over. When we ran out we stopped, and shopped shouldering our way through the Christmas crowds. The Santa's were there, too back in 1944 when war raged and daddy was away flying missions over Europe from an English airfield. Back then, the real Santa Claus had invented recycling. He left my mother's own beloved baby doll under the tree for me. I recognized the chip on her nose even though her brown, painted-on hair had been grandly covered with a lacy new bonnet and a dress to match. Handmade, of course. (Grandma's needlework.) Yes, two loney women had raised up a tree, a holiday, a Christmas in the midst of that war. They are both gone now, and I realize what a precious gift was given in 1944.

Copyright © January 2002 carole j mennie

Additional Notes:
I have typed the last section (from 'a tree' ) by centering it, so that it forms the shape of a tree. May be too cutsie for some...


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