Just Another Flaming Christmas

By Darren Hobson

There is a time in the year where the real reason of the festivities  has been forgotten and a senseless celebration and a never-ending chain of commercial events takes place. Here in this collection of seasonal poems the poet takes you on a trip through the bad and good that is Christmas , a ride that takes in the beauty and the cruelty that has blighted all the magic that once was paramount to this time of year.

This is the poets second trip through Christmas his humour and English wit is still strong as ever as we read through the verses that will either bring tears of joy or tears of sadness, we should all take note of how far Christmas has travelled from what it once was.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Dec 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9783743844643

Darren Hobson

Darren Hobson was born in Preston,Lancashire in England and moved to Italy in 1998.Currently living near Rome working for a multinational company. In his spare time he loves traveling to historical cities for inspiration him to write more intense poetry. The poet started submitting his work for inclusion in many anthologies between 1990 and 2009, but with the help of social network sites and self publishing sites he started to publish his own books in 2014.

Book preview

Misteloe.

It was a time when snow was pure

And all the kids loved Christmas time

In class we were innocent and cute

We made decorations from paper

We had water based glue and bottles of glitter

We had silly little scissors that never cut

We had good quality paper to make a calendar

And we had a post box to send our Christmas cards

We had started our plans from bonfire night

Who would we like to kiss under the mistletoe?

While everyone was pining for the new girl

Some us were being more devious in our plans

We were being pushed into performing the Christmas play

We had to wear green tights, me no way!

Who was going to be one of the three kings?

Hey leave me alone because I want to be nothing.

The teacher’s pet always ended up playing Mary

The whole stage was hers to show off

Joseph was not so keen on this blonde