Another Year

log fueled fire blazes in a hearth, throwing out intermittent shadows embellishing a darkened room a flickering candle burns through yet another Christmas eve, its light reaches out to highlight images of a family past 



a silence is broken by a rocking, creaking chair that projects it's outline upon an empty wall, a victim of years gone by reminiscences of many such nights, as a wind roars around snow-filled fields outside of a bolted wooden door..
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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De Beaulieu Avatar
July 25, 2021 at 3:39 PM
Hello Mickey, this poem makes me feel that someone lived behind that bolted door. enjoy your evening my friend.
A   Avatar
February 18, 2016 at 12:58 PM
Mikey, Enjoyed the way you expressed every line. Please keep writing and sharing your poetry. LOVE LINDA
A  Avatar
January 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM
Hi Mikey, this is a deep write. The imagery's awesome...SKAT
Murray Avatar
January 9, 2016 at 7:26 PM
Are you alone in this bolted house? Last of the family? Eerily good poem.
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