Xmas Cards

We don’t read the classical text in it though we’re 

aware why its there in the card - might go back to 

it if its a doozy; but really, the deal is who’s a kind 

enough being to send Xmas greetings snail-mail; 

usually they are too far away to have said gidday 

to in the normal run of things - or they’re nearest 

and dearest anyway, the iconic ‘familials’ who’ve 

always been generously part of a family scene 

So we quickly scan casual scrawl, a handwritten 

event now rare in this day and age, to see who’s 

penned this and to whom we’ll send our grateful 

response quickly, cards received post Xmas are 

ridiculously passé; - and then special memories 

crescendo in a tenderness of fine times shared 

In the elegance of sentiment it bares 

© 11 December 2014, I. D. Carswell