Claudia is having a little fun tending bar at dVerse Poets Pub today, so I thought I’d join in. Her Meeting the Bar prompt today is to write about a character in a book coming alive or someone ending up in a book. I love the creativity of this prompt. And since it is the Christmas season I decided to write my first Christmas poem of the year.
Come, Baby Jesus
I set it up just yesterday
My favorite little nativity
Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus
surrounded by angels and kings
My mother-in-law made it
The year of my birth she created it
Each ceramic piece of the scene
hand painted, even the angels’ wings
I set it up just yesterday
But where could it have gone
It’s no longer on the china hutch
where it really does belong
Oh my, I see what has occurred
My favorite little nativity
has come alive in my dining room
It’s really quite absurd
I guess I should be more careful
what I pray for as just today
I asked the Lord Jesus
to come into my home to stay