Sleigh

On Thanksgiving turkey is Queen on a throne,

and a few linger longer as turkey soup bone.

But after the soup, ours begged not to leave.

Seems she had plans for Christmas Eve.

She argued her case like a free-range attorney,

how her life wasn’t over, she was still on a journey.

She knew how to fly in snow and rain, dear.

Delivering gifts was her encore career. 

So the sleigh that you see is the real deal;

this bone once wore our holiday meal.

Without fowling this verse with a corny cliché,

what’s the word from the bird who became a sleigh?

What seems like the end of the road is a turning

toward something far better for which we’ve been yearning. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Chuck & Penny

Verse © 2014 Penny Pefley • Photo © 2014  Chuck Pefley

graphic background © Sharyn Sowell all rights reserved