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Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers

1960, Card
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
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Item no
39827
Title
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper'

'In the bleak midwinter
A flash of inspiration
Of fire and brittle brimstone,
To treat a sweet with reverence
A splash of Chinese gold

First the honeyed air of spiced delight
Rich with roast potatoes
Now the stippled whiff of cordite
An ancient joke
A crown of hope
Coloured paper in a pile
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The ironclad winter cracks a smile'

By Simon Parsons

Image: Christmas Crackers 1960s
Date
1960
Type
Card
Location
Museum of Childhood