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After Dark - Christmas lights

1940,
After Dark - Christmas lights
After Dark - Christmas lights
After Dark - Christmas lights
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Item no
39839
Title
After Dark - Christmas lights
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.

'After Dark'

'The still quiet, gentle glow of small lights after dark,
lanterns lighting faery homes, nestled in the branches
of spruce and pine.
A world of sprites and spiral paths, all leading upwards
to the Star of Light.

At night the creatures skip and scamper, pick their way through
mistletoe,
steal kisses from their neighbours' daughters.

Un-ribboning strings,
de-ordering things,
creating happy chaos.'

By Samantha Short

Image: Mickey Mouse Christmas lights c.1940
Date
1940
Location
Museum of Childhood