All Comments on 'The City of Charn is Dying, Mike.'

Christmas : there are layers within layers of meaning in your poem GM !! 5-ed & Merry Christmas .

a family sharing a Christmas moment plus the Narnia story plus the irony. You weave them all together into a skillful narrative.

...the books, this one's even more a christmas special of a poem. liking the fact digory got a mention, and the links to 'a boy and his horse'. the scene as seen through the N's eyes as he watches the child watching, the adult v child's comprehension of what's happening, and the glib roar of commercialism leaves a bitter note behind the 'delight' of a tale fit for turkish nights.

i meant to type The Horse and His Boy

.....you weave Narnia and its characters into this domestic situation. I am nostalgic for a Christmas I've never known, it's always been about gifts and greed. For we like sheep....ya know. Great poem gm. <3

forgot to mention the importance of Charn here. not everyone's read the Narnia books, though they are missing out on a part of childhood - Charn is a dead/dying city because of Jadis' magic - as related in The Magician's Nephew.

to appreciate this in its entirety

In case you re-visit, this poem relates to C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe."

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