#Flash Fiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community ~ #Poetry

December 3: Flash Fiction Challenge

Each of us grows…
Changing throughout the year
Come Christmas,
that would seem to be a lie
if my family don’t get Jaye’s mince pies.
When I say I am cancelling Christmas?
They turn into peasants and revolt
If you could see the looks, I get
Enough to kill the Bah Humbug in me
Can’t we just have Jaye’s mince pies?
No, I say. Cancelled means cancelled
I managed one year
Then a great granddaughter came along
Children to me mean Christmas
So here we go again, it’s game time
Charades, old tabletop games
Screams of you cheated, mum!

© anita dawes 2020


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  1. Liz H Avatar

    I think it’s the littlest ones that renew our holiday spirit!

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  2. Charli Mills Avatar

    I love the last line! That’s a great tradition! Christmas cheer waxes and wanes, but mince pies and children make it all swell.

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Children and mince pies… the perfect Christmas!

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  3. D. Avery @shiftnshake Avatar

    It’s always hard to cancel especially with little ones about.

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  4. Colleen M. Chesebro Avatar

    That’s a sweet memory! I agree. Christmas is for the children. Pure magic. <3

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Thank you, Colleen…

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