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Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

0 posted 2014-12-14 06:41 AM

My Christmas is frosty and white
The smell of needles in the air
And snowflakes dancing in flight
And garlands around the fir

Your Christmas is rainy and green
Pre-holiday rush in the street
In exhausts of gasoline
It savours of bitter-sweet

I’d send you from mine some snow
And yours would be festive and clear
But our Christmases fall
On different days and years

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09/12/2014

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Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2014-12-14 07:11 AM

Very beautiful, dear Galina, with that touch of melancholy because of distance and different celebrations and perceptions.

I felt as if your reality regarding the purity of falling snow affected the whole world, just like a love stream covering all known space and people.

Wonderful effect.

Love and peace.
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-12-14 07:56 AM

To me this poem is a bit unsettling. I may have it all wrong, but your cryptic message carries more meaning that first it does at first read.

Dammit I'm Mad is Dammit I'm Mad spelled backward.

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

3 posted 2014-12-14 08:22 PM

Thank you, Margherita!
I saw green Christmas once in Crimea in my childhood and several times in St. Petersburg,
it was funny - December without snow,
but still I think that snow is the best decoration for Christmas and New Year holidays )

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

4 posted 2014-12-14 08:32 PM

Yes, Jerry, it's sad to me as well.
He always loved snow, at least in winter, but in his place it's only raining and raining, and raining...
And I can do nothing with it. Even if I sent him snow as I told, I guess it would be a disaster with paralized traffic and other "pleasures".
But then his spring is much more blooming than mine here in the north )
Another world.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2014-12-16 02:49 PM

Christmas, amidst the joy, can be such a very sad time, Galina, and my heart aches for your pain. Beautiful poem, but very sad.

Owl

Redstart
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since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

6 posted 2014-12-19 08:42 AM

Strokes the reader with a gentle sadness for Christmases spent apart. The differing seasons only emphasise.

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

7 posted 2014-12-19 10:09 AM

very well written !

I can't easily imagine catching the 'spirit of Christmas' in places like Hawaii
or California, etc. At least we often have snow here in the ancient 'endless'
(Appalachian) mountains of N. Pennsylvania.

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

8 posted 2014-12-20 01:03 AM

Owl,
Redstart,
Bruce?
thank you very much for reading and for your nice comments! And merry Christmas to you all!

Think I have to add that I meant here no different seasons (in spite of that in SA 25 December is summer

)
And by "different days and years" I implied different calendars, Gregorian and Julian ones. The matter is that in Russia Christmas is celebrated on 7 January.

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