December 4
David Coad 1969 (Canterbury)
December 4
December skies
Suck me dry
The aching chill
Breaks my bones
As I step into the city
With all its devastating glory
Jingle bells of festive cheer
Colourful lights and epic grins
Excited children dragging tired parents
Inviting shop windows
Reflecting broken promise
Where sits the homeless
Frozen solid by the raw
Breathing in the perfumes and fumes
Howling down and round the blast
As bloated money bags stumble past
Endless stream
And I don’t want to look
For what we have all become
About this poem
What I felt seeing homeless people while out Christmas shopping in the high street on 4th December 2022
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Written on December 04, 2022
Submitted by dcoad on September 17, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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