BLUE CHRISTMAS • by Mark Dalligan

A

log fire

burning, presents

wrapped, snowflakes falling.

Dickensian background to the

opening of our Christmas Schnapps.

Glasses clinking, laughter flowing, choirs

singing. I sit quietly, sipping fine kirshwasser.

Your stinging absence, a brake on the ancient engine of

festivity.

Mark Dalligan works in the City and only by subjugating his besuited self is he able to free the Muse. He does this with varying degrees of success as the day job has to come first (at least until the blockbuster novel and film rights are sold) but the Author/Poet is currently in the ascendant. He only started writing seriously about two years ago (and kicks himself quite regularly for this) but has poems published in EDP and The Linnet’s Wings while his fiction has appeared in The Beat, Twisted Tongue, Ranfurly Review, Shine, Delivered, Bewildering Stories and Microhorror etc. He is quite proud to be appearing in his first anthology: Sand: Strange Tales, an SF/Fantasy/Horror collection from the magazine of the same name, just released. You can follow his progress at www.poundingthekeys.blogspot.com.

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Posted on December 25, 2008 in Concrete, Holiday/Occasion, Poems
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11 Responses to “BLUE CHRISTMAS • by Mark Dalligan”


  1. K.C. Ball Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 4:11 am

    Very nice, Mark! Merry Christmas!

  2. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 4:17 am

    Happy Christmas, Mark and thanks for the poem :)

  3. dellfarmer Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    All trees fall, none make any noise;
    we’re not really here to hear them.

    Shapely work, Mark.

  4. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    I love it, Mark! A beautiful expression of sentiment.
    Merry Christmas, all.

  5. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Oh, and a lovely form…Good job.

  6. Errol Nimbly Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Absolutely first class Christmas sentiment.

    Dickens and engine remind us of how the madness of the Industrial Revolution would cease for this one day each year.

  7. Joan Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Gorgeous shape and poignant Christmas thoughts. Beautifully evocative……… and quite sad.

  8. Sarah Hilary Says:
    December 27th, 2008 at 5:31 am

    Wonderful, Mark, so warm and then so cold. Very well done.

  9. Barbara McGinley Says:
    December 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    Great poem, Mark.

  10. mark dalligan Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Thanks for commenting everyone. Have a good New Year.

    Cheers

    Mark

  11. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    October 6th, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Sad punctuation to a finely described happiness. Excellent poem.

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