Dear Santa

In Competition 2827 you were invited to submit a Christmas list, in verse, in the style of the poet of your choice.
 
This challenge called on you not only to pull off a convincing pastiche of a particular poet but also to come up with a plausible Christmas wish list for them.
 
There were neat references to Dorothy Parker’s ‘One Perfect Rose’ from Noel Petty and Martin Parker, and I liked Basil Ransome-Davies’s riff on MacNeice’s ‘Bagpipe Music’. Melanie Branton’s Shakespeare almost made the cut: ‘Hoping I get a keg of sack or pouch of snuff,/ A statement earring, in-your-face and blinging,/ Desiring Marlowe’s codpiece, Jonson’s ruff,/ But fearing Anne will buy me something minging’, and honourable mentions, too, to Philip Roe, John Whitworth and John Beaton.
 
The winners below take £30 each. The bonus fiver belongs to Rob Stuart.
 
Merry Christmas!

I do not wish for aught because the Lord
Hath always my heart’s stocking fill’d with
cheer.