An Email, cupcakes Options

[Merlin]

The In-box

In these days before Christmas, I’m certain you’ll see
An email that someone has sent cheerily.
Take a look in your litter box, there you might find
A note of this season; it’s one of a kind.
It speaks how politic’lly right we now are,
Embracing all peoples from near and afar,
Offending not one with the words we may say:
“Merry Christmas” is out, and so is “Good day.”
Our holiday season must now be like theirs
Or else they might suffer from obnoxious airs.
No bobbles, no bangles, and no Christmas trees
No Rudolph, no Santa, but let me keep breeze
Or else this dumb verse won’t rhyme, as it should
And many of you will say, “That is so nice!”

[Sekhmet]

Right on Merlin!
I see that even here, on MM we have a 'Holiday Competition', when it is quite obviously a Christmas Competition. Oh yes - a few different religious celebrations are mentioned as a sop to Political Correctness - but surely everybody understands that, (keep your voice down when you say this.) this approaching holiday is Christmas; so why are we afraid to mention it? If anyone would like to start, for example, a Diwali comp - I expect we could accommodate them; and I, as a Christian, would be happy to enter a poem about it.
I do not wish to offend any-one's religious susceptibilities. I am delighted for those of different beliefs to celebrate their special days in whatever way is normal for them; just as long as they keep within the Law of the Land - Human Sacrifice would definitely be out!
But in return, I demand the right to celebrate my special day in my own way too.

"No bobbles, no bangles, and no Christmas trees
No Rudolph, no Santa"
I could live without them - they are nothing at all to do with Christmas. For me, Christmas is not about any of those things - it is about Jesus Christ.
But I am not a bigot. I am quite happy to enjoy the secular Christmas celebrations, with all those baubles, and fir trees and St Nickolas - I don't wish to ban them, because they are modern inventions - my Christmas Puds are made, and the Christmas Goose is on order; so we will celebrate the Birth of Christ in our own, simple way.

Enjoyed your poem - it deals with one of those small, but hugely irritating examples of self abasing P.C.
We must not allow the word, 'Christmas' to be wiped from our vocabulary.

From now on - just as our utility room has become our futility room - our letter box will, henceforth, be known as our, 'litter box' .

A fun poem - with sound reasoning.
Love, Leo