Coldly Toasty

Coldly Toasty

Christmas stockings

hung with woe

stuffed with pandemic feelings

from head to toe

I wear it in my inside-out mind

feels safer

while suspended with you

on the fireplace 

six-

feet--

a          part.

erin-cilberto

12/25/2020

Reviews

[Crowley]

Ughhh, my wife was in such a bad mood all Christmas weekend, made me take all the lights and tree down the day after Christmas. Said she was Done!!!! That's after quarantining with the Covid (both of us ) for two and half weeks. I think everyone can identify to the nth!!!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

it's another pandemic in itself...the reactions to the pandemic.
craziness.
climbing walls....
you understand, sir,
j.

[Einstein Noodle]

i like the dramatic spacing in your closing .. I wanted the title to be Cold Turkey :))) .. for so many everything has been torn at the seams ... no family gatherings .. no work ... no TP ... and death ... all those businesses out of business and will not return .. at least as they were ... i have to make myself think about them as I have been immune in my more or less reclusive lifestyle ... NYC must seem a ghost town .. waiting for Zombies to appear ... without hope ... without Faith ... we truly will fail. I really like personifying the hung stockings ... a warm place but a cruel 6 feet apart ... for some 6 feet under :(
E.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, we have stopped socializing, cold turkey...
I feel like a zombie...every day just bleeds into the next, even though the blood has felt like it has dried up.
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

Amazing use of words and thoughts Jacob. Our new world. Not so wonderful. I hope the up and coming world is kinder. Thank you my friend for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I hope the same, Coyote,
thank you,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome my friend.

[light and ashes]

Brilliant, my friend.
100

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Light.
j.

[light and ashes]

You are welcome. Take care of yourself. Ok?
x

[barleygirl]

You turn a covid phrase like a well-honed virus. This has been the quietly isolated holiday many people won't forget! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Margie....I know I won't forget...and I never know how many more there will be for me.read morethank you, Margie....I know I won't forget...and I never know how many more there will be for me.
j.

[Gee]

Six feet of separation, tis mightily hard to pull a cracker, or if single anything :))
Has been a strange , strange year Jacob and looks like we are going to get much of the same next year. Where I love in the UK has, at this time, the highest infection rates. We're locked in, locked down, and going nowhere fast :))
Hope you are well.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

So true, Gee. nowhere fast.
but time keeps churning on.
thank you,
j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

great Pic, Gee...

Your wife and daughter?

[Gee]

Hi Jacob, yes :)) Taken on Christmas day

[jacob erin-cilberto]

both very pretty ladies, sir.

[Gee]

Aye, I'm a lucky man to have two such beautiful ladies in my life

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ah, just like Emerson, Lake and Palmer sang
"oooo what a lucky man, he was"

[Patricia Wedel]

dearest Jacob.. waking up Christmas morning is
Toasty Cold ... the Sun has disappeared ... but embers of
Christmas Eve will stir the Dreams of yester year... when
we were oblivious to being sequestered in our own homes.
The Mistletoe Toe is still above waiting for Lovers to embrace
the Passion of Saving Grace. Keep Safe and Well ... our Doctor of
Philosophy... please take your 💊 Pill and lay your head on a
Pillow of Peace and Goodwill... tenderly, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Okay, Pat. I am taking it now...feels good going down, just hope it will take effect.
thank you,
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

A spoonful of Sugar helps the Medicine go down in a most delightful way. We have no Sunshine today... but we have a Ray of Hope... and Santa’s Pipe that he left on the Hearth. Peace ... Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I used to smoke a pipe...Cherry Blend tobacco.
Nice scent.

[Patricia Wedel]

Hey Jacob ... this morning was Christmas Day; at nine am, it began to snow lightly and later there were big fluffy flakes.. then a few hours later, the sun came out. You could say we had a white Christmas for awhile... it was perfect because there was no shoveling to mention.. really. Roger has a breathing issue and uses a Nebulizer when needed, so we stayed home and my grandchildren stopped by for a short time with their parents... to exchange presents. I wonder if Santa has tried Cherry Blend tobacco. I know he likes Fruit Cake with Cherries; he left the Cookies and took the entire Fruit Cake for his flight around the World. Time to plan for the New Year...with Masks and sanitizers. Bravely, Pat

[Chris]

A taste come to pass of a season lost in time.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Chris,
Happy Holidays, my poetic friend.
j.