A Very Short Poem...

My daughter and I were helping her Dad to clear out some cupboards yesterday, and I found this poem, which I wrote many years ago. I still remember glimpsing those angels.

Am I mad? Possibly. But it's a lovely image anyway...

Were they really there?

Certainly I saw them,

arms linked in jocular society -

staggering down our road in the snow,

intoxicated with the love of God.

Faces alight with boozy cheerfulness;

taller than our house, they towered

over cars and trees and street-lamps,

holding one another lest they fall

in drunken delight

at the feet of him who made them.

Angels on holiday!