Twelfth Day Of Christmas - A Poem

                

for MJ

               

               

Making merry and swinging like a pluM

Eastern lights shining, blinding every elsE

Ring ‘em sweet chiming Christmas bells, get togetheR

Raise your voices sing songs of foreveR

You and me, call ‘em guys, let’s get happY

Christmas is here, all feelings’ poetiC

Hollies and Ivies and joy’s a dime’s wortH

Rocking till dawn well, that’s a whole notheR

               

Immerse yourself in the atmosphere, I

Sense the magic too, boiling ecstasieS

Tell me there’s a chicken in every poT

Medley of Christmas from J5’s albuM

Assault the air, inciting euphoriA

Said, they saw Mommy kissing Santa ClauS

               

               

Eneh

               

               

This style of poetry is called an acrosonnet. A form of poetry I invented. ; ) It’s a combination of two other forms of poetry, an acrostic and a sonnet. A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables in each line); an acrostic is a verse derived by starting each line with a letter from a chosen word or phrase. What you have here is the word Merry Christmas used in a double acrosonnet. Read in sequence the first letters and the last letters of each line form the phrase Merry Christmas.

I have taken liberty to deviate from a standard sonnet rhyme scheme to achieve this.

               

               

Eneh

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