'O Come, O Come… but where has Christmas gone?' - Your Letters and Shrewsbury dentist Samuel Blain remembered in a 1950s picture from the archive
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Looking in vain for Christmas
How soulless and sad it has all become;
Just an advertising industry extravaganza
And an an excuse for the retailers
To put together more and more bizarre combinations of food
The sight of which has already destroyed my appetite in November!
As I wander with little wonder around the stores
Yes ‘stores’, there aren’t shops anymore!
I search in vain for just one sighting of an angel,
A crib, a baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph - a shepherd?
And as for wise men!
Nowhere to be seen
‘Cancelled’ perhaps?
I haven’t seen anything on the news.
Advent calendars. Surely there;
Advent is after all a Christian celebration.
I recall an advent calendar we had when I was a child.
Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem;
The finding of the stable
The arrival of the Magi
The angels and the shepherds
