The Thoughts of Christmas Animals Around the World

Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub inspired me to try two animal shape filters I haven’t made before. The penguin and the kangaroo. The poetry prompt is to write from the perspective of animals that have been linked with Christmas but don’t really have anything to do with it.

This Kangaroo’s Christmas Hullabaloo

He chose me years ago
when his reindeer needed rest
surfing to clear his mind
and problem solve
he saw me leap
over the tall grass

I thought him odd
as he donned his suit
and asked me to gather my mob
but with eyes atwinkle
he wrinkled his nose
and when we leaped
his sled rose

We bounced so high
we didn’t touch down
until a rooftop
covered children dreaming
I finally knew a purpose more
than any possible scheming

It was hard to leave the reigns
to the rested reindeer
whence they came
but the joy of purpose lasts all year
if only in blurry moments
of time’s tear.

Here’s a Christmas Penguin song from my childhood:

and here’s another odd Christmas animal, the moose:

and here’s an Australian Jingle Bells