About the Poem

A poem about the Christmas stocking ritual, which each year see children racing our of bed on Christmas morning to open stockings. Are they ever faintly disappointed?

Category

Funny Christmas Poems

Style

Rhyming poem

Author

Patrick Winstanley

Fair Exchange is No Robbery

I'm not knocking
The whole stocking
Thing, but swapping
A glass of port,
A large carrot
And a mince pie
For a pencil,
A pair of socks
And an orange
Is plain shocking


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