The truth about tinsel:
poor man’s ice,
telltale trashbag tree,
treebangs of the 80’s
sprinkled to hide
the ugly limbs,
the dried dull-grey,
the balding spots.
Budget’s got
your branches thinned?
This hardpressed
holiday season,
if the scratchers don’t win,
just tinsel me in.
© khartless 2021, All Rights Reserved
d’Verse Poet’s Pub–Mish is the host for Quadrille #142-Tinseltown. Quadrilles are poems of exactly 44-word and tonight they have to sparkle. Join us.
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
hahah; fun and whimsy 🙂
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Thank you kindly, John. Might be more hilarious if I didn’t live it. No, it was good times, tinseling the bald spots on our trees.
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As an adult, I don’t like tinsel. It gets lost everywhere and you find it under the couch in July! I read yesterday how it is dangerous for pets too. Scary!
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Agreed. Do they still make it? I always thought it died with so many extravagantly wasteful things birthed in the 80s. 😂 Thanks for chiming in, John.
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I have no idea but I suppose that it could possibly be found in a dollar store. The 1980s were my best years! We were and still are wasteful in too many ways…
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Hahaha, I love this one. Tinsel is cheap, but it can get the job done for sure.
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Thanks, Lucy. It did, indeed, for many years. Won’t touch the stuff now, too many memories. Cheers to the holiday season!
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We had many tinsel bombs go off on our trees over the years. Great job!
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Thanks. I didn’t even mention the fallout of tinsel and vacuums. Oh, maybe a sequel?
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Haha 😂
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Ah the versatile tinsel. Does wonders to a tree
Happy you dropped by to read mine
Much💟love
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Thank you, Gillena. I try for humor and it’s usually satire. Thanks for dropping by and reading my quadrille. Happy holidays to you!
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LOL! Brilliant. I love it!
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Thank you. Thought I might have gone to far, but it’s all truth, or at least my truth. Cheers, worms.
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If it’s any comfort we had a few bamboo stems as a tree one year It was definitely lacklustre. But I have to say, our Tinsel was balder than our trees on average. (When we moved back to Australia, we had cypress pines on our property and would choose a limb from a cypress tree). As a kid, I am sure your tree bothered you and I am sorry I laughed. I think I misread it a little. It’s horrible to feel pressure to do Christmas “right’.
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Love this piece, K. Tinsel makes me feel so nostalgic. Great picture.💕
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Thank you kindly, Grace. I tangoed with tinsel long ago, done with that now. Cheers to you.
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My pleasure.I haven’t seen tinsel in such a long time, Great memories.💕
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Indeed. Cheers!
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Well, I remember this like it was yesterday. Sometimes there was so much tinsel the tree was hard to see…seriously. Great poem and trip down memory lane, K.
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Thank you. Hope you don’t get tangled up in any tinsel this season. Cheers, Jeff.
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You’re welcome. Haha. No more tinsel for me – left that in the 80’s. Cheers.
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You just brought me down memory lane! That’s exactly what tinsel did (hide the ugly and bare spots!)
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Oh, I’m so glad to hear it. Thought it was just my family with the lopsided thinning tree. 😂
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Oh heck no!!
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Love this, K, and great advice. We’ve seen those bare branches more than once that need to be tinseled in!
Pax,
Dora
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Thank you kindly, Dora.
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We used to spend a of time turning the tree so that the fullest branches were out front. These das it’s the string of lights that mantle the tree. I’m happy now with a fake tree, and a spray can of pine scent.
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Ah, yes indeed. I forgot the spray sent this year but the fake tree does have its perks. Not shedding being a big one for me. Cheers, Glenn.
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I love it. Sort of like spraying a bald spot on the head! Great poem.
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It works, tinsel as Toupee. Gosh, Dwight, you’re making this poem even better. Thank you.
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Thank you! :>)
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Ha..I hadn’t even thought of it that way…until now. Thanks for the perspective. Here’s to filling in the gaps.
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Thanks for hosting this topic and fixing my left a laugh. I have a love-hate relationship with tinsel and it was fun to roast it a bit last night. Happy holidays, Mish.
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Gotta know… Who’s in the pic? 😁
💜
David
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Oh, that me, the red-headed middle child, and my two sisters. Christmas of the past.
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cute children!
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Very clever!
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Thank you, Carol. 😀
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Budget often get in to spoil celebrations. We do what we can do. Beautiful.
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Yes, to make do is often the northern of invention. Thank you. 😀
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You are welcome.
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We had the same type of tree! I also thought tinsel was a symbol of luxury style just like a white tree which my sister always wanted and our mom said no
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Oh man, a white tree brings me back to my grandmother’s tree. White and flaked this awful stuff. She thought it was beautiful, and it was in its own way.
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That was a dream of my sisters she begged our mom to have a white tree and my mom said no didn’t like it’s look. It took years for us to get a real tree too that was an epic battle there for her to capitulate with the rest of the family
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tinsel me in! 😂
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Hehe, alright, hold still. 😂
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🤣
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Tinsel – ever so handy for tying the kids up!
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Now there’s a reason to purchase some. Great idea, Mr.B. Resourceful as ever.
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Always a big battle in my youth: hang it carefully, one strand at a time or step back, toss a handful, & c all it quits.
Nice recall, K. Thanks.
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Thanks, Ron. Haven’t tried that handful effect before. I bet my mom would have liked it. Happy holidays, thanks for the read.
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Love your humour K . It is good to see the lighter side of things. It makes life more balanced and meaningful!
Hank
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Thank you, Hank.Agreed, and I appreciate you stopping by.
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Nicely cynical 🙂
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Thank you, Jane. It was impossible for me to write tinsel any other way.
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I can understand that 🙂
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Haha – tinsel me in indeed!
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Yes, well. I did write that didn’t I? 😂
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That ‘tinsel me in’ is just brilliant, K. Love this one.
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Thank you kindly, Misky. I’m glad you enjoyed the final pun. Cheers.
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Poor man’s ice…..brilliant….
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Thank you. I liked that line as well. Cheers, Ain.
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Ha… great to cover up that poor tree and pretend…. just like icing on stale bread
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Indeed. Just the thought of it gives me the willies, actually. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers.
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Well done, K. 🙂
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Why, thank you, Bill. Cheers.
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