Nicely done. Eastern Montana has a BIG sky. I live in the west snuggled between mountains.
I loved the openness of Kansas... one reason why I'm going back to Isan in Thailand. "A little bit of who I am" resonates with wide open agricultural areas.
He missed Christmas while serving overseas,
but now the family is coming together
to welcome him home on leave.
They will celebrate the holiday
a little late this year.
Still, it will be a jolly July
with peppermint candy canes
hung around the patio
and cold chocolate milkshakes
to replace traditional hot cocoa.
The hot summer sun casts an eerie glow
on cotton snow spread across the ground,
as the joy of giving intensifies
when friends and relatives deliver
gifts for military still serving overseas.
The Minute poem is twelve lines divided into three quatrains, with each stanza having line structure of 8, 4, 4, 4 written in iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is aabb, ccdd, eeff, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/minute.html .
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