Weep Not For Me This Christmas

Weep not for me this Christmas

as you lay the Yuletide boughs.

I am free from all this sickness,

I am at peace I can avow.

 

You feel this loss profoundly

when surround by delight.

Please know I loved you soundly

Sweet love 'twill be all right.

 

My soul calls now for fields

free to embrace the coming cold,

my heart be finally healed

at birth sorrows were foretold.

 

Life loses its sweet shine

and our many moments  fleeting.

For always I'll be thine

though my heart has now stopped beating.

 

I will lie beneath this meadow deep

I shall sleep the sleep of sages.

Visit still, yet do not weep

for I am now the dust of ages.

 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

geez this is so sad...a really strong write, written in apostrophe...as Emily D. often did...

the speaker trying to console the other person..although not easy to do.
never even noticed the rhyme...nicely subtle.

jacob

[icelandicblue]

Now that is a compliment. It's no Wild Nights-Wild Nights but Emily D. is truly a poetic heroine to me so I thank you for that.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ah yes, Wild Nights....the poem that seemed to be about some of the men she fantasized about, since she didn't get out much ...to actually meet any.

[icelandicblue]

LOL but at least she's alive in it!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that is True! :)

[icelandicblue]

Thanks so much for getting this poem jacob and I don't want you to think for a moment that I think I write anything like Emily, I just wish I could have known her.

[Baby Ricochet]

Wow this is really sad. If I'd been drinking when I read it probably would have made me cry. (Alcohol, for better or worse makes me emotional.) It's beautifully weaved together with excellent flow and rhymes, Outstanding work blue.

[icelandicblue]

I never want to make you cry my friend, but thank you. I appreciate your beautiful review.

[FeatherOwl]

I like the balance in your poems, they are quite symmetrical. In this particular poem I like the way you have blunted the edge of pain (of loss)...I personally like it better when your topic comes in the middle of the poem, giving it its anchor (or pivot, more aptly). In this one, it is the opening line. So it sort of took that smile away from me.

However, very well-written. A pleasure to read. Thank-you for sharing.

[icelandicblue]

Thanks Featherowl- the initial line was the foundation of the poem so it was birthed first. I am glad you like the poem though. Thanks so much for reading.

[Jack...]

Anne, this is so profoundly sad but in some sense extremely beautiful. These thoughts I think find us all now and again, to place our hearts out there in full view of the world, be they beating or still, they remian hearts filled...

Beautiful my friend.

[icelandicblue]

Ah Jack,
How good to see you. We are only here for such a short time, I could not help but wonder about those I will leave behind.

[Dr. Wood ?]

eerily sad ICE, a perfect Christmas ballad. Maybe ghosts next, eh?

[icelandicblue]

Perhaps ghosts of Christmas past? Thanks Doc.

[BubblingMe]

I really love this one, it feels so pretty when I'm reading this warm piece, it gives me rest somewhere ;O thanks for sharing

[icelandicblue]

A respite is good for the soul. Thank you so very much.

[BubblingMe]

I know heheh your welcome!