Another Year Poem by mike monahan

Another Year

Rating: 5.0


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 reminisces of many such nights, as a wind roars around snow-filled fields outwith a bolted wooden door...





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Another Year
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Lonely at christmas
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jack Colbrook Addams 26 January 2015

Masterpiece! Keep them coming Mike! Loved it! depicts lonely people in a sad and tragic way.

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Henry F James 27 February 2015

I agree with you Jack C Adams! ten from me!

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Henry F James 27 February 2015

This a beautiful poem and indeed depicts the height of lonliness not only at Christmas but every day! Another ten from me Mike.

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Hazel Durham 18 January 2015

Evocative, superb write with the stark facts of living alone without family, brought out with great depth of the coldness of living alone!

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George C Collingwood 10 August 2012

I am a fan of yours Mike. You actually take the person and the subject into a lovely dream state. I can visualise the scenario you have described perfectly. Terrific poet.

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kaya Brodio 02 March 2024

takes one on a season of the fall in a fantastic way. Wow!

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Kevi Keego 14 July 2019

I can visualize the light bouncing around the room highlighting family photos! Great poet

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Kevi Keego 14 July 2019

I can visualize the shawdows and the light from the fire highlighting his family pictures hung on the walls. A very gifted poet

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Margeret Downes-minger 05 July 2015

So melancholy. Alone at Christmas and it seems all year every year. Brilliant piece of work Mike.

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G. Akanji Olaniyi 13 May 2015

Another year, indeed! ! !

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