This is my effort for this week’s Carrot Ranch 99-word Flash Fiction Challenge. The topic is ‘Trees’, so I’ve written a poem about my pet peeve of people chopping down trees just because it’s Christmas…
Trimming the Tree, by Stevie Turner
On Christmas Eve I watched
As the pine was chopped down.
His children danced
When the tree hit the ground.
No roots to sustain it,
He placed it in a bucket.
Gaudy trash on its branches and lots of fuss
Because it was Christmas.
No matter it was dying
In a hot stuffy room,
Its needles fell off
It was butt naked real soon.
Then 6th January comes,
It’s shredded without ceremony.
The commercialism’s phoney
And somehow unholy.
That tree could have given
Four people some oxygen,
Next day he’ll start to rabbit
About trying to ‘save’ the planet!
Stevie Turner 
I’m all for fake trees, lol 🙂
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I can’t even be doing with fake ones now either!
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This past winter we left for Mexico Jan 1st. I decided at Christmas there was no time for tree and decorations in the midst of holiday visiting and packing. It was the first time with no Christmas decorations. It felt freeing, lol 🙂
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It does. I just festoon the cards around, and Sam puts lights on our large pine tree outside. Can’t be bothered with it. Now I know why my mum couldn’t be bothered with it either!
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Lol, so funny! 🙂
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So true! I like the newish idea of buying trees in burlap which can then be planted after the holiday season (always supposing you aren’t buried under three feet of snow!)
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We have an artificial Christmas tree which I’ve had since I got married. I have a preference for a real one but ours always came in pots with the roots intact. Things have changed. A splendid poem, Stevie.
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Thanks Robbie.
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This is my rant every year, and I think real Christmas trees should be banned. Thousands of trees are killed every year, trees this planet sorely needs.
The artificial ones are so good these days, you can’t tell the difference…
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Absolutely. It’s madness, and then some of these people have the cheek to say they’re saving the planet!
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Not in my book!
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Never mind, lol. England right?
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Yep.
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What’s the prompt? Btw, it’s still the 20th here, where are you?
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UK. Was I too late?
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No, I thought I was!
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I think today is the last day, but not sure.
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No biggie
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The prompt was ‘trees’ I think?
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