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Wood Hills Creek

Wood Hills Creek

All is quaintly quiet on Wood Hills Creek
The day after Christmas a silence unique
No shaking hands or exchanging of smiles
Only symmetrical snow as it pleasantly piles

All is fractal frost on Wood Hills Creek
The air chilled and damp a barometer bleak
No warming of hands and hearts left cold
For Christmas is over now back to the old

All is blasphemy bitter on Wood Hills Creek
With shivering silences no words they speak
Goodwill toward man nowhere to be found
Only merchant materials that keep us bound

All is lamentingly lost on Wood Hills Creek
As greed gracefully falls a morphic mystique
The Spirit of Father Christmas left far behind
Until next year...just one day...to be kind.


Dec.21.2016
The Day After Christmas - Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...

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Date: 1/2/2017 4:44:00 PM
WW, congratulations on your fine podium win for your poem that says so much about our fragile Christmas spirit. And, Happy New Year to you! Sandra
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Date: 1/2/2017 1:25:00 PM
Human nature, unchanging. Fleece Navidad.
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Date: 1/2/2017 3:04:00 AM
Wow. Congratulations. Very well written. Let us make today a day of kindness...
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Date: 1/1/2017 4:26:00 PM
Great use of repetition. And good point about Christmas spirit - why only one day? Congrats! :-)
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Date: 12/31/2016 11:41:00 PM
This is so neat! "quaintly quiet" "fractal frost" "blasphemy bitter" "lamentingly lost". And those are only the 4 in the 4 first lines... Absolutely great. Congratulations :)
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Date: 12/23/2016 1:30:00 AM
Very truly portrayed the falseness of it all:( wonderful, WW:) I've noticed that you love alliteration, it does add to the poetic charm:) a 7:)
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Date: 12/22/2016 11:52:00 AM
Very peaceful yet sad depiction of the day after Christmas however what we have gained from love compensates us dear, WW. A seven! Good luck!
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Date: 12/21/2016 1:54:00 PM
This makes me so cold :) Material things are our blinders to our glory. Very well expressed, ^WW^. Good luck in the contest and Hugs and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
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Date: 12/21/2016 12:43:00 PM
Very good and, unfortunately, true. // Barry
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Date: 12/21/2016 12:27:00 PM
So much false good out there...wonderful write
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