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TRAIN AROUND THE TREE

TRAIN AROUND THE TREE

What is Christmas without a train around the tree,

Not to asked of a railfan…

For a railroad fan knows that it ought to be

And will be, on their demand.

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Older folks remember the train

They took to be with families at home…

Modern day folk may think it’s just a toy,

A tradition that their family’s settled on.

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My own train around our little tree

May be set up tonight…

On the end of our table near the windowsill,

So our neighbors are cheered by the sight.

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We will be gone but I wonder if I could

Set it up to run automatically…

With everything else, funds must be spent,

So maybe…next year…we’ll see! 🙂

–Jonathan Caswell

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RED AND BLUE REPRISE

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RED AND BLUE REPRISE

(Sung to “Grandma’s in the Cellar”)

Queried the Committee

And found my prior ditty*

About colors was right upon the nose…

Blue will serve aerobics

And red for stoics

Wanting muscles bulging even on their toes!

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It is clear,

Coming near,

Is a multi-colored place to make it so…

Red and blue are traditions

For exercise renditions,

But if ping-pong’s there I really do not know! 🙂

–Jonathan Caswell

*”Prior ditty” was the poem RED AND BLUE, posted on 7/31/13, on BY THE MIGHTY MUMFORD!

HAPPY HOLY DAYS!

HAPPY HOLY DAYS!

“Happy Holy Days,

Happy Holy Days…

While the merry bells keep ringing,

Happy Holy Days to you!”**

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So much of the language we’re seeing

Is stripped of original meaning…

Holiday once was holy,

A festive day solely

To celebrate spiritual cleaning.

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In “X-mas” the X stood for Christ,

The tipped-over cross sufficed…

But in algebra, “x”

Stands for unknown, one suspects

Non-Christians got this in-spliced.

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Western and American thought

By intellectuals is thought to be fraught…

With danger to social control,

In other places it is so

That any and all Christianity must be tossed.

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True pity I really feel

For folks who reduce to “corn meal…”

Cultural richness displayed

Despite efforts made,

By fanatical pagan zeal.

–Jonathan Caswell

**NOTE: A play on the words of Bing Crosby’s hit song, “Happy Holidays”, based on the etiology (history of words and their usage), of “holiday” coming from the original term, “holy day”.

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