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This poem was sent along by Father Roger at S James the Less. The poem is featured on the the excellent BBC website as the item for 21 December If you have a favourite poem you would like to share please send it along to andy |
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NATIVITY PLAY by Clare Bevan |
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Here in an inn with a stable,
equipped with some straw and a chair. Here is an angel in bed-sheets, with tinsel to tie back her hair. Here is ‘Away in the manger’, a tune most recorders can play. Here is the moment of wonder as Jesus appears in the hay. Here is a Mary with freckles, whose baby is plastic and hard. Here is a donkey in trousers with ears made from pieces of card. Here is a shepherd in curtains who carries a crook made of wire. Here is a boy sucking cough-sweets, who growls from the back of the choir. Here is a camel who fidgets with plaster stuck over his knee. Here are some sheep who just giggle, and think no-one out there can see. Here is a Herod in glasses, who whispers so nobody hears. Here is a mum with a hankie to cover her pride and her tears. Here is our final production, and though it’s still held up with pins, the parents will love every minute, for this is where Christmas begins. |
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