Dec 21, 2015 Original Poetry

Plastic Angels — Ten Haiku for the Season
©December 21st, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram

Lights blink on and off
A tangle of paper and tissue
Such innocent dreams!

Darkness pivots on light
Panic fills waiting houses
Cheer bursting its seams.

Not of this place, nor
This ethos of gift-giving
Shrug on your disguise.

No, we don’t believe.
Weaving our own myths and tales,
Yet, we soothe your lies.

Plastic angels sing
Animatronic reindeer,
All declaring “Hail!”

“Buy!” shriek the adverts
“Make the US great again!”
And greed prevails.

Rudolph’s bright red nose
Is a beacon in the dark
Funny songs abound.

Yes, yes, jingling bells
Red-white, blow-up Santas swell,
Rising off the ground.

The beast slouches, yes,
But under the weight of what?
Miracles, you think?

“Look!” she cries out, “Look!”
Above, a light rises, bright
Below, humans blink.

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Thanks to Andy Townend for hosting Poetry 101 Rehab every Monday!  Here’s my first entry, for the prompt, which was about this season.

 

 

 

 

 

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