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    Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald's and Other Poems
    Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald's and Other Poems
    Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald's and Other Poems
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    Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald's and Other Poems

    By Maren Tirabassi

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    This book of poetry for the Christmas Season tells stories of ordinary lives – putting wooden trains around the tree with a three year old boy and hanging an ornament with a ninety-five year old grandma, learning that the little girl who wore her "Belle" dress to play the Bethlehem star has been deported and finding a way to tie a mask on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, discovering that "Blue" Christmas is less a religious service than baking the cookies a friend used to give as gifts, and realizing the images of this season, both from Christian scripture, such as "manger" or "magi," and the secular world, such as "Scrooge" or "the Grinch" lead us to care for the most vulnerable.

    Every year at Advent, we are not the same people we were a year earlier. The coronavirus pandemic and the United States struggle for racial justice in 2020 made that clear. Every December, some of us will have greeted new children, some will have grieved dear friends, and all of us will have experienced hope and sadness. Christmas will come anyway in precious and ordinary ways. This book hopes to tell that story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateOct 22, 2020
    ISBN9781098333058
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      Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald's and Other Poems - Maren Tirabassi

      Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s and Other Poems

      Copyright © 2020 by Maren C. Tirabassi

      All rights reserved. For permission requests, write to the author at mctirabassi@gmail.com

      Print ISBN: 978-1-09833-304-1

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-09833-305-8

      Printed in the United States of America.

      First Edition

      Contents

      Christmas comes

      Introduction

      Memories of the Season

      Tale as old as time ...

      Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s

      Wasn’t That a Mighty Day?

      Before the rehearsal

      Holiday Visit

      Snow? (writing prompt in the correctional facility,

      Bridgewater, Massachusetts)

      Getting the tree

      Trimming the tree

      Blue Christmas

      Trains

      Opening the window

      His fingers remember

      Economies of Winter

      Pageant

      Some days hold our memories...

      World AIDS Day (December 1) Improv on Psalm 137:1-6

      Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12)

      A Prayer for December 14

      Reflections on the Pandemic for Advent and Christmas

      In a long year of Advent

      A pandemic pageant

      Narnia

      Christmas greetings to all the closed inns

      Mask on the red-nosed reindeer

      The Work of Advent (After Howard Thurman)

      Where will we find our Silent Night

      A sleighful of santas

      Miracles

      Poems from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

      Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by Jacob Marley

      The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge himself,

      an unloved, unwanted child

      Scrooge is shown a Christmas party thrown by his first employer Fezziwig

      Scrooge is reminded of choosing business success over love

      The Ghost of Christmas Past leaves Scrooge

      Ebenezer is taken by the Ghost of Christmas Present to witness the

      unexpectedly happy Christmas of people Scrooge considers unfortunate.

      Scrooge observes the Christmas Day celebration of his nephew Fred

      whose invitation he turned down as a waste of time

      Scrooge is shown two hidden children, Want and Ignorance.

      Beware them, says Christmas, beware Ignorance the most.

      The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge the death

      of Tiny Tim, possible if there is no intervention

      Scrooge is shown a pawn shop selling the sheets and curtains

      of his bed and his clothes

      The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come offers

      another chance to ... curmudgeons

      The best-known line in A Christmas Carol is spoken by Tiny Tim

      "He went to church and walked about the streets and watched the

      people hurrying to and fro … and found he took pleasure in it all."

      A Christmas Carol

      Some Poems from Traditions ... Old or Newer

      A Conversation about Her

      Las Posadas

      Mistletoe

      Fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains ...

      Magnificat

      Lighting the Dark

      The Johannine Nativity

      Improv on Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch who Stole Christmas

      The Long O of Advent

      O parable-maker, Christ

      O antiphon for those who wait

      O antiphon for those who suffer sexual violence

      O antiphon for Advent in the Pandemic

      O antiphon for the Festival of St. Nicholas(December 6 or December 19)

      O antiphon for those in recovery

      O antiphon for all the beasts

      O antiphon for the winter solstice

      O Tannenbaum

      O antiphon for Christmas Eve

      Prayers from Songs of the Season

      Little Drummer Boy,

      Do You Hear what I Hear?

      Hard Candy Christmas,

      I wonder as I wander

      Go Tell It on the Mountain

      And It Comes...

      ‘Twas the (ordinary) Cold Before Christmas

      God, I didn’t get it all done

      For Twelve Days

      Mourning after, Tamir Rice

      Shall yourselves find blessing

      Tinsel

      New Year’s Eve Morning

      A New Year and a Small Cow

      Epiphany, the story comes again…

      epiphany story

      According to Matthew

      I’ll keep it there

      And What Comes Next...

      For this Time Being (After W.H. Auden)

      About the Author

      Christmas comes

      Christmas comes to my friend in withdrawal

      at Strafford County House of Correction,

      and the ninety-year-old grandpa

      in the nursing

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