Christmas Acrostic Poem

I like doodling with words using pen and paper.

I especially like writing acrostic poems, or what passes for a poem in my world.

This is one I wrote while taking part in this year’s “sekrit santa” writing challenge hosted by the Chronicles Science Fiction and Fantasy Community. 

Here’s the handwritten version, and below that is the typed version.

(I wrote a sci-fi short story for the secret santa challenge; the poem came together as a break from the prose.)

The Writer’s Christmas Wish

secret santa, I’m out of luck coz

every scene’s sure to suck

chapters crash, darlings die

readers flee, I want to cry

editors refuse my calls

time to bounce off all four walls

should words no more I get to write

alliterate this Christmas night

needless nouns and vapid verbs

tasteless tripe, boring blurbs

an author’s life kicked to the kerb