Christmas is better expressed through poetry, not prose. Prose typically deals in the raw stuff of lived experience, while poetry is strained through memory
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Although synonymous with Christmas, mistletoe’s significance stretches back well before Christianity, when the plant was revered by druids as a symbol of fertility, health and a protection against evil
Patrick Kavanagh's "A Christmas Childhood" is the most quoted of Christmas poems from Ireland - and it's no wonder why. In his Christmas favorite "A Christmas Childhood" he harkens back to the winters of his childhood. This poem was born out of Kavanagh's loneliness and solitude and he penned it having spent.