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  Happy holidays, Christmas, Hannukah, Festival of Lights to everyone and blessings of the season!  I am happy to be the editor for this edition and as I love to sing and write poems, let's have a little fun! 
In my search for different poem forms I came across this one and.... ta da! It is keeping in the season!  Read on to find out!
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 Here we go! The cumulative song or poem has a simple verse structure, changed by adding words so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Great for group singing, as there is little memoriziation involved.
You may have heard the popular Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas"!  It is a prime example of the form and many can admit to it driving us a bit crazy if we have to hear it over and over.  Kids love it, along with other parodies of it like "The Hockey Song" and "The Porcupine's Twelve Days of Christmas."
The poem, likely of French origin, was published in England in 1780 without music, as a rhyming chant. In 1909 Frederic Austin published it with its tune elongating the "five gold rings" line musically. 
 On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Three french hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
and so on until
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree."
Other poems of the type you may have heard of is "The rattlin' bog" or "The hole in the bottom of the sea" among many others." The children's Christmas song here, "Must be Santa" is another 1961 example. I just discovered a youtube video of Bob Dylan's singing it ! What a party! I was more familiar with the Raffi version! 
The cumulative poem is composed of one stanza of at least two lines. In each verse, the text of the first line introduces a new item, and the other line uses the words to begin a list which includes items from all the preceding verses.
The two lines can be separated by refrains or have a chorus as in "The rattlin' bog" and "Must be Santa".
"Hi ho, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o,
Hi ho, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
1. Now in the bog there was a tree,
A rare tree, a rattlin' tree,
The tree in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o." etc.
Who's got a beard that's long and white
Santa's got a beard that's long and white
Who comes around on a special night
Santa comes around on a special night
Special Night, beard that's white
Must be Santa
Must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Clause.
other verses ▼
Who wears boots and a suit of red
Santa wears boots and a suit of red
Who wears a long cap on his head
Santa wears a long cap on his head
Cap on head, suit that's red
Special night, beard that's white
Must be Santa
Must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Clause
Who's got a big red cherry nose
Santa's got a big red cherry nose
Who laughs this way HO HO HO
Santa laughs this way HO HO HO
HO HO HO, cherry nose
Cap on head, suit that's red
Special night, beard that's white
Must be Santa
Must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Clause
Who very soon will come our way
Santa very soon will come our way
Eight little reindeer pull his sleigh
Santa's little reindeer pull his sleigh
Reindeer sleigh, come our way
HO HO HO, cherry nose
Cap on head, suit that's red
Special night, beard that's white
Must be Santa
Must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Clause
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen,
Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
Reindeer sleigh, come our way
HO HO HO, cherry nose
Cap on head, suit that's red
Special night, beard that's white
Must be Santa
Must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Clause
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Hey all! How about a challenge? Create a parody of the "12 Days of..."
or create a cumulative poem of your own! 
Send them to me and
I will highlight them in my next edition and gift an awardicon to my two favourites! 
 Last month I wrote about Rilke's letters to a Young poet! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks tokomall
Hi!
Wow! What a beautiful poem it is. It really inspires me and the last line “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other." Oh My God how beautifully this line explains the love. I like this."
"Me too! Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm. "
Thanks toVaughan Jones - ONE Scribe
"Very true and greatly informative. I am NaNoing at present, but I love poetry, and I still take part in the Daily Poem contest. Thank you for this newsletter."
Thanks to GabriellaR45
:This is a 5-star editorial !! I particularly like Rilke's poetry.
I cherish and have saved a few of his poems. You did a wonderful job
collecting lots of fascinating information about Rilke and his travails.
Nice going, my friend. All the best, Gab"
 I appreciate your support. I have a few favourites too. Wish I could read German though."
Thanks to Monty 
"Poetry that put me back in school many years ago."
LOL! I hear ya!
Thanks to Boulden Shade (fka Jeff Meyer) 
"Brilliant expose` on Rilke's advice. And all of his answers are, to us poets, as intuitive and common sense as 2+2=4. We already know these answers, but to have them reiterated from a successful voice is validating and reassuring.
Thanks for allowing us all to be young poets receiving advice from an historical Master."
"I am so glad you enjoyed it! I always get a little something when I go back and reread the masters. Thanks for your kindness."
Thanks to Azrael Tseng
"Rainer Maria Rilke was my favourite male poet during my university days studying German and Literature at the University of Kassel. His 'Duino Elegies' were a source of inspiration and deep thinking for me as I too struggled with issues of spirituality, like he did. Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? I still remember this line after two decades. Thank you for featuring him in your newsletter, and reminding of a forgotten love."
"Oh I know what you mean. He was one of my first studies and touched spaces at that time! Glad he came to mind for this newsletter. I came across the book when I was tidying up. LOL. Guess I needed a reminder too. I am glad to hear he inspired you too. and wow, you could read the original German? So cool!"
Thanks to ~Minja~ 
"I was talking with a friend of mine, who is a poet as well, the other day and I told him: sometimes I question creative side of me. What if I'm not a writer at all? He said: why do you say that? Because I let myself to get distracted with ordinary things in life, like right now I have to do homework and read plenty of non creative material. Then, there's always laundry, making lunch, house cleaning and everything else that makes a person to function like robot, I answered. He said: when you feel it, you do (which is my opinion on writing by the way- I write when I feel like writing- and right now my pen is empty. I have fluorescent markers though). I asked him: do you think other, famous poets felt the same or they really led extraordinary, artistic lives where there was no room for non-creative thoughts or even conversations? Like, you can't make an artist from a person, you have to be born as one. He said: I think they just balanced their time on this planet. Sure, I said, maybe I'm just having high expectations. It's just hard when you don't have anything to balance with. There's this quote either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Excuse me now, I'm off to clean my house and after that I have to think of lunch.
According to Mr. Rilke, I really am poor artist because I can't find anything creative in doing homework and housework. Oh well, at least I admitted it before this newsletter came out.
p.s. Thank you for highlighting my poetry quiz. I forgot I have it in my port.
"Thanks you for this sharing. I have to laugh as yep, doing homework or housework can be really routine. I try to sing while doing dishes. And Rilke, I am sure had his trials and did suffer illness alot. Maybe we in our heightened creative life see the ideal... and shoot for it! I say, express anyway! You never know when a coal can become a diamond. "
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