Christmas This Year (2020)

 

 

Hope the holiday season is treating you well this year.  Or at least as well as can be expected, in a year where everything else seems to be going wrong. 

I was touched by an item in the news this week, meant for the tenderest ears, and I could not resist making a rhyme about it. 

I hope you will enjoy this bit of holiday candy, meant to send the year out on a happy note!  Merry Christmas (or whichever holiday you celebrate) and may we all have a happier year in 2021!

 

 

Dear Santa had to outsource.

I know you are appalled.

Because of COVID,

Santa’s been in

Quarantine since fall.

 

The elves have all been working.

They’ve herd immunity.

How jealous, we,

Who can’t be

In our own community!

 

But who will fill the stockings?

And who will deck the halls?

If Santa is in bed,

Then who instead

Will visit y’all?

 

So many kids are worried.

So many rack their brains.

Perhaps Polar Express

Will fix this mess

And send their trains?

 

But wait!  The dawn is coming

And Rudolph’s nose, a-glow!

The reindeer all

are stamping–

It’s as if they somehow know!

 

Look!  Santa’s cheeks are cherries!

Wake me!  Is this a dream?

Is that Dear

Doctor Fauci

Giving Santa his vaccine?

 

He slaps on his suspenders!

He mounts his trusty sled!

The mound of toys

Is weighty, but

The reindeer’s nose is red!

 

And up! Above the rooftops!

And off! To spread his cheer

Goes Santa

Flying through the sky

To you and I

This year!

 

Copyright 2020 Andrea LeDew

 

 

For another poem about raising children, read S’mothering.