My heart smiles
as I remember
the yesteryear.
The season to be jolly.
An album of
engraved memories.
Are eternally frozen
within my mind.
The day of the year
our family embraced
as a whole.
As I twirl back in time,
my body tingles as
goosebumps excite my skin.
My memories pass through,
histories time.
Each mental image
is breathing,
as our souls dance
for the days grace.
My senses lost
within a trance.
I can taste pudding,
as my fingers entwine
tinsel bows.
My ears aroused,
as I listen to the laughing,
the merry voices
alive with sound.
An illusion I can't reach.
My face falls,
as I recall what once was.
My eyes weep
my broken tears,
for now you
lay in peace.
Today,
you are not here,
I drown,
within my grief.
I place your gift
as I mourn
the last yesteryear.
Author notes
First option: Write something about someone you love.
Today was the first christmas I didn't have my dad here. He died in April, I spent the morning by his grave.
Merry Christmas
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A contest entry
- Allpoetry One Year Anniversary Contest by Tali28.
900 points, ended June 17, 2007, 27 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - 82nd Contest by Tarja.
600 points, ended November 27, 2007, 14 entries
Honorable mention
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Please tell me what you think
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Thank you for sharing your emotional memory with me. This makes me so sad. My relationship with father is strained and I cannot relate to this but I admire your strength of being able to share this painful memory. Just know that he will be with you on Christmas as he is with you all the time. 
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Wonderfully touching piece. I really like the emotions here. Thanks for sharing this with me. Good luck in the contest. Take care.
Tali
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Thanks
Thank you for your entry. I will be back to share my comments when the contest ends.
Tali
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very heartfelt write, i'm sorry about your father...good poem and i felt your pain...thanks for entering this piece and good luck in the contest
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this was a very moving poem. Very nice. I enjoied reading it. Thanks for entering my contest and good luck!
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i have tears running down my cheeks... it is a horrible time that first year after losing a loved one. makes them feel very close but yet we know thay are so far away. i hope you still had a little bit of happiness on the day though
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i know of those feelings only too well, as i visit my mom’s grave once a year, tradition rather than belief making me say a prayer to her name, and the terrible loneliness once more the only sensation embracing me for many hours. i wrote her poems, in languages she understands, even one in english though she does not understand, behaving at moments like a kid, her kid, for her, before getting back to pitiless reality. i love your poem, the mix of memories, and smiles, and mental images parading in front of your eyes, your tone serene, warm soft. you accept reality yet you weep its irreversibility, and the little girl in you still aches for his warm embrace. i don’t say it often, if at all, but you brought tears to my eyes.
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This is such a heartbreaking piece, I am so sorry for your loss, you wrote wonderfully of your memories, I hope you are able to hold them close to your heart.
I thank you for entering this contest, I wish you all the very best of luck
Karen -
a great write...
Sorry for the loss...but here when you remember him and tribute him makes him alive in this great poetic journey and this is the way when you can make feel of him as he is with you always...you are very beautifully touching the momments of him in your so emitional words and so heartfelt lines here and making us too the part of your great journey of the loverful words time and time again...Indeed a great work...
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Touching and sad lyrebyrd. I wold like that your dad will be able to read your verses dedicated to him. Somehow I am sure he could. We all missed somebody this Christmas memories and pictures only remains...
~Sonja~
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Thank you for entering this beautifully touching piece, I am very sorry for your loss, I can imagine how hard it is for you today especially, merry christmas
Josephine
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Beautifuly emotional, I can relate to your sadness so well, you have express you feelings wonderfully. Think how your father would be happy to read this tribute, I feel for you deeply. Take care.
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A sad write here of remembering wonderful past Christmas times with loved ones no longer with uas. You imagery is quite beautiful and brought a tear to my eyes.A very emotional write.
Best to you in this contest
Gaylenes
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memories present time memorial
this is an elegy or a lament or both and is a tribute of her love for her father and for memories of when the families were together, especially at Christmas time, and this is when mourning and memories converge and create sadness, beauty and even some hope. The poem is in two parts and the first part is a physically real sensation of all the things and the togetherness, she feels herself tingel, for instance, but at line 29 she returns to the present from 'an illusion I can't find' and line 30 'my face falls' and then there is sadness and mourning. On the surface, she gives herself no room for any hope except time, and time is a great healer, but this fine poet might take comfort in the fact that her father whose face takes the place of the title (my heart smiles) will always be in her heart, and not always as a source of lonliness and sadness but as a source for strength to give love, for to be loved like that, you must love like that.
,,,Danni
i'm sorry Tracey
peace
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Well Done
You have my condolences for your father. Losing a loved one is very hard. It's good to know that you care.
"I can taste pudding,
as my fingers entwine
tinsel bows."
That was my favorite line. Seems like that was something you treasured. You also displayed a good amount of emotion. Which is what poetry is all about.
Keep On Writing.
-William -
That is so sad!
Im sorry your dad died. This is a really great poem though, if only it wernt true! Its very emotional. I like it a lot.
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