Last Christmas:1961 by louis kasatkin

Sepia hued,
smoke-filled aroma
of spicy gingerbread,
pervasive odours
of holly,ivy
and mulled wines;
infusing kitchen,scullery
and dining room,
evoking a childhood
with their forgotten
boxed presents
under the enormous
seasonal bough,
its array of
waxen lights
twinkling,twinkling
long into memory
and myth;
the greetings
and the joy
in Alpine setting
of hearth
and "Heimat"
Advent,Christkindl
and "Stillenacht";
their longing
recalled by chance,
by stray snatch
of melody,
returning,returning
to an innocence lost,
to a card once
annotated
"frohe weinachten,A.E."
now,here,
now in a place
where Christmas happened
but no longer counts,
A.E.
Prisoner,
Adolf Eichmann.
(*Footnote to the above:Notorious Nazi War criminal Adolf Eichmann was abducted by Israeli Mossad agents from Argentina in 1961 to face trial In Israel)

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Truthwielder

22 December 2011

Thank you Louis for sharing this wonderful poem, delightful and sad, such evocative language. I love Christmas, to be without its' traditions would be empty indeed! No doubt war criminals can be sentimental too.

Also see: A Poet's Prayer (Eddie Larkin) • Remembering Luke Kelly (Eddie Larkin) • Cartier-Bresson (louis kasatkin) • Casablanca Blank (louis kasatkin) • Adorae (Eddie Larkin) • Night Sky (Dark Angel Alice) • Neanderthal Bully Boy (Truthwielder) • Dear Mrs Blackbird (Truthwielder) • Andever. (evakaye) • Dark Eyes In My Memory (Truthwielder)

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