{"id":49961,"date":"2024-12-25T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=49961"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:37:14","slug":"remember-remember-by-faust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=49961","title":{"rendered":"Remember, Remember (by faust)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:\u00a0 No one signed up for the fourth, so this day was opened to all members in the Forums to try their hand at writing poetry for the season.<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 G\u00a0 230 words<\/p>\n<p>Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\">Bonanza<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\">~*~*~ Advent Calendar ~*~*~<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\">* Day 4 *<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To start the Free For All day, I&#8217;ll give you my humble offering. As stated, poetry isn&#8217;t really my strong suit (not even in German, so writing ESL is no excuse here), and I realise that there&#8217;s no semblance of meter in it and I even jumbled the rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n<p>But, I said I&#8217;d deliver, so I do. Somehow. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\":writing:\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bonanzabrand.info\/forums\/uploads\/emoticons\/writing.gif?ssl=1\" alt=\":writing:\" data-emoticon=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"DE\">Remember, remember,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"DE\">Gone days of December.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"DE\">Elizabeth, bright and gay,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cherished all the joys of Christmas Day.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet of all the delights to desire,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of all the happiness to aspire<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">She never was granted the most precious one:<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">To celebrate the day with her own son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Remember, remember,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Gone days of December.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Inger, full of goodness and cheer,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Baked pepperkakor men and deer<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">For Adam, on whom she tenderly smiled.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">But she never got to bake,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Neither cookies or cake,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">For Hoss, her biological child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Remember, remember,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Gone days of December.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Marie, so pretty and free,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Was mother to them all,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">To tiny Joe, To Hoss, even to Adam so tall.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">A couple of years, then she was ripped from thee.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Now it\u2019s just you and the boys, and the days go so fast,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">And there are only memories of Christmases past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Remember, remember,<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Gone days of December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link to the next contribution for Day 4 of the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar &#8211; 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