Twas Just Before Christmas 2005

[scribblet]

Got this in an email, I'm sure the author won't mind.

Twas just before Christmas 2005,

In Canada, the government failed to survive.

An election‘s been called that nobody wants

And candidates do battle with torments and taunts.

So on to the hustings..the Leaders they flew

Harper and Layton ... (and that other guy too).

Campaign planes they are loaded

With press pundits in tow

Criss crossing the country

To woo voters below.

And in many a yard you’ll hear quite a clatter

As candidates come knocking with their signs and their chatter.

In our house the election has caused great disruption

As the wife’s now working to end Liberal corruption.

Gone is the baking of shortbread and cake,

And nobody’s home those sugar plums to make.

I’m putting up signs in ice and in snow

The name of our TORY on front lawns to show.

Our lonely old dog keeps watch on the house,

Where not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse .–

Our tree it is lit…and the outside is bright

With red and green beacons

To light up the night.

Instead of hearing those jingle bells jingling

Canadians respond to the phone banks a-ringing.

But in the next few days campaigning will pause

As candidates and workers await Santa Claus.

And as we enter 2006

May we all do our part this country to fix!

Bill Settatree

Toronto

[Shakeyhands]

yet the libbys were elected back in.... the end.

[PocketRocket]

The man who wrote this was a very poor poet,

but since no one told him, how was he to know it???

[Biblio Bibuli]

The man who wrote this was a very poor poet,

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Talking about poets ..... you owe me a gold star.