X is for xxx

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By Di_Hard

Thu, 23 Dec 2021
  • 1936 reads
11 comments
 

kisses at message end

when words run out of sense

 

writing from sky to land

in lines of bird footprints

Certificate U
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

When I think of X and Christmas my mind goes back to my son’s obsession with those X-Wing Fighter things that the Hollywood spacemen went about in in Star Wars. They plastic models of them always had wee buttons on them that, when pressed, made a horrible noise. And those sort of toys always came with a sheet of stickers representing windows and fuel caps and the celestial equivalent of a nodding dog in the back window that had to be applied by a responsible adult … or me. The stickering of these and other toys always took up at least a couple of hours of my Christmas Day and could have been avoided if the greedy manufacturers had been prepared to pay an extra dollar a week to the kids who made them in the Vietnamese sweat shops. I bet the Vietnamese dads were all laughing their socks off because they weren’t confronted by this annual chore. I remember once struggling on with Barbie’s camper van well into Boxing Day.

But the X at the end of a message is always nice. I think it means niceness more than it does a kiss, and it needs no explanation. Isn’t it grand that the birds can do this with their feet?

x

Turlough

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I did wonder if I should have put crosses, which was the original seal, meaning sincerity, (looked all this up instead of cleaning the kitchen) which was then kissed, but then the cross came to mean a kiss for letters not to do with religious matters. So xxx is a less formal yours sincerely. Only then I thought x can also look like a multiplication sign, as in more than words can say? But then many cultures friends kiss each other, or adults kiss children, so a kiss is also a thing of friendship, welcome? Your meaning of sending niceness, happiness, that's just right, is what I mean at the end of messages. I guess it's a sort of emotional algebra before emoticons? 

Those fiddly StarWars things were aweful! 

Thankyou so much again for reading and commenting, sending you and Priyatelka and all your family, as well as cats and dogs lots of happy wishes for tomorrow

xxx

 

 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Happy wishes to you too and all your family and your cat and your stir fried sprouts.

And big congratulations on your poem of the week success. 

Bird's foot shaped old-fashioned emoticon.

Turlough

Submitted by marandina on

"writing from sky to land, in lines of bird footprints." Just gorgeously poetic.

Merry Christmas, Di. Paul :)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Paul, that's a lovely thing to say, so glad if you liked it, is really kind of you to read two in one day!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Clever ideas, neatly expressed. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for reading and commenting, Rhiannon. It was interesting to find out how the idea originated. I hope You and your family have a beautiful day tomorrow

 

Submitted by catherine poarch on

Just four lines and you've captured an image again. Succinct as an X at the bottom of the page.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much Catherine, a bit of an abstract one :0) It is very kind of you to read and comment, I really appreciate it :0)

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Small but perfect, this is our Poem of the Week - Congratulations!

It's also our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Please share/retweet if you enjoyed it too

Picture Credit: https://tinyurl.com/2p943kfz

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Oh! THANKYOU SO MUCH :0)

I hope you are having a brilliant day, thankyou som much for reading all these! And hope both your boys are home and all well

xxx