Christmas Mourning

Some say there are two types of December moods. The first type is the Joy To World mood and the second type is the Bah Hum Bug mood.

Ah, but I say there are more than two types of December moods, and the one left out is far more prevalent than the other two
combined.

Christmas Mourning
Carol St. Ann

There is a somberness
that comes with the holidays.
Time, like an army of wooden soldiers,
marches across the landscape of our lives,
robbing innocence and faith,
leaving frenzied shopping,
and drunken gluttonous feasting
in their place.
Guardians and loved ones,
whose sincerest soulful pledges of
through the years
we all will be together
rang through the rafters,
were disallowed by the fates,
and those once joyful
melodious tidings
sting and gouge
and rip the heart out,
tainting beautiful memories
with longing
that will never fade
nor be fulfilled.
All this to bear,
hidden in secret
behind pretended smiles
for those who do not yet know.
For those who do not yet know.

Christina 11/10/1989 our daughter
Dad 8/23/1992
Mom 9/11/1996
Jeanne 4/2011 dear friend
Barb 7/15/2015 a favorite friend
Jerry 4/05/2020 my one & only, my forever love
--Christmas Mourning. CsA
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Free Verse
Definition of Free Verse
Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression. In this way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem however he or she desires. However, it still allows poets to use alliteration, rhyme, cadences, and rhythms to get the effects that they consider are suitable for the piece.

Features of Free Verse
Free verse poems have no regular meter or rhythm.
They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme; these poems do not have any set rules.
This type of poem is based on normal pauses and natural rhythmical phrases, as compared to the artificial constraints of normal poetry.
It is also called vers libre, which is a French word meaning “free verse.”

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