Reluctant to box up the ornaments
Wind the strings of lights
Declare the holiday over
And settle into the sameness
Of gray January days
But the water in the baseBecame murky and sticky
Evaporated
And when we finally took down the tinsel
The branches were brittle
And the tree
Was dry and dead.
submitted for Thursday Poets Rally Week 36
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24 comments:
sorry that the tree is dead in the end,
vivid capture of tree...
Thanks for the support.
Happy Rally...
:)
This same thing happened to my sad tree. I've yet to sweep up the needles it left behind.
Love the story along with your words! Grateful to have found you today!
My Week 36 poem may be found here.
LOL. The sucky part of the holidays.
Flecks of bark, needles and sap. Sounds like a new breakfast cereal. We should switch our traditions and have Christmas Bunnies and Easter trees.
It is hard to accept that the holiday is over, and it's back to business as usual. But hey, it's 2011, and a new year's always something to look forward to, eh?
... and so it goes. Nice poem though on which to end the season. Captures the bit of let down well.
Happy Rally days and best wishes for 2011.
We still haven't taken our tree down yet! We hate to box up the holidays! My sister and I share a room, and there, it is perpetually Christmas!
I'm sure everyone can relate to this poem! I loved it!
~~Aynsley
Nice post-holiday shit. :-)
Very true and very sad and very vivid imagery. I liked this very much - a difficult time of the year after the holiday season without much to look forward to for quite some time.
a touching poem...the fate of the tree is very sad. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, the sad part of the holidays ending. Like you said, the tree is dead!!!!
Trees are like any other living thing. They do perish.
well another year over! time to take down the tree and start a fresh! lovely poem! thanx for the comment on my poem!
is the tree dead...or the holiday in itself is dead?
kinda makes me wonder...anyway, good job here; for the almost sketchy view of your xmas.
-kyogakura
creating room for another beautiful tree :)
love how you capture that moment! mines here- http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/hunger/
there is a lot more to the words than what meet the eye :)
@ladynimue: I love a good metaphor! ;)
things we let linger and not take responsibility for do just that at times...nice...
you did so well on everything,
Thanks for taking the awards.
enjoy a lovely day.
Word.
irenethebean.wordpress.com
Neglegance can ruin beauty & taking things for granted too.
Well put :)
mine
http://hindawy.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/home-is-not-here/
I so felt this exact same way this year. I took Christmas down willingly but it made me sad. Don't know what the next christmas has in store for me. Thanks for the read, felt like you were reading my mind.
I loved this one-- it is so much the way I feel, reluctant to let the holidays go with nothing to look forward to but spring. You chose the perfect words-- I could feel the dry, brittle needles and see the murky water.
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