{"id":5732,"date":"2017-12-24T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2017-12-25T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T07:34:36","slug":"christ-climbed-down-a-christmas-poem-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"‘Christ Climbed Down’ –a Christmas poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>(male voice, Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
(female voice if you prefer)<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Christ climbed down<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and ran away to where<\/p>\n

there were no rootless Christmas trees<\/p>\n

hung with candycanes and breakable stars<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ climbed down<\/p>\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and ran away to where<\/p>\n

there were no gilded Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no tinsel Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no tinfoil Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no pink plastic Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no gold Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no black Christmas trees<\/p>\n

and no powderblue Christmas trees<\/p>\n

hung with electric candles<\/p>\n

and encircled by tin electric trains<\/p>\n

and clever cornball relatives<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ climbed down<\/p>\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and ran away to where<\/p>\n

no intrepid Bible salesmen<\/p>\n

covered the territory<\/p>\n

in two-tone cadillacs<\/p>\n

and where no Sears Roebuck creches<\/p>\n

complete with plastic babe in manger<\/p>\n

arrived by parcel post<\/p>\n

the babe by special delivery<\/p>\n

and where no televised Wise Men<\/p>\n

praised the Lord Calvert Whiskey<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ climbed down<\/p>\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and ran away to where<\/p>\n

no fat handshaking stranger<\/p>\n

in a red flannel suit<\/p>\n

and a fake white beard<\/p>\n

went around passing himself off<\/p>\n

as some sort of North Pole saint<\/p>\n

crossing the desert to Bethlehem<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

in a Volkswagen sled<\/p>\n

drawn by rollicking Adirondack reindeer<\/p>\n

with German names<\/p>\n

and bearing sacks of Humble Gifts<\/p>\n

from Saks Fifth Avenue<\/p>\n

for everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imagined Christ child<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ climbed down<\/p>\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and ran away to where<\/p>\n

no Bing Crosby carollers<\/p>\n

groaned of a tight Christmas<\/p>\n

and where no Radio City angels<\/p>\n

iceskated wingless<\/p>\n

thru a winter wonderland<\/p>\n

into a jinglebell heaven<\/p>\n

daily at 8:30<\/p>\n

with Midnight Mass matinees<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ climbed down<\/p>\n

from His bare Tree<\/p>\n

this year<\/p>\n

and softly stole away into<\/p>\n

some anonymous Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s womb again<\/p>\n

where in the darkest night<\/p>\n

of everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anonymous soul<\/p>\n

He awaits again<\/p>\n

an unimaginable<\/p>\n

and impossibly<\/p>\n

Immaculate Reconception<\/p>\n

the very craziest of<\/p>\n

Second Comings<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Copyright 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(male voice, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (female voice if you prefer) \u00c2\u00a0……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars   Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no gilded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[529,678,226,679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}