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We are approaching Halloween, and not much longer after that will be Thanksgiving, followed by just about everyone’s favorite holiday—Christmas. Thus this challenge is to incorporate all three holidays into a three stanza poem followed by a single line ending. This can be dark, eerie, pleasant, daunting. Possibilities with this can be endless.
Because Prose still has some difficulties determining a winner via most likes, and though this falls under Monarchy, I will choose the winner based on the total amount of likes. The only difference this time is this: If you do not tag me in the comment box, not in your piece—it will not matter how many likes you have, it will not be chosen, so be sure to tag me as @Danceinsilence. I will start this off so you get an idea or ideas from which to decide how you wish to go with this.

Three Little Humans

Three small pumpkins paraded in matching costumes.

Although they look the same, their insides are different.

Guts filled with different sprouting seeds.

Masks lift, the only reminder, that it is Halloween.

Three medium turkeys not ready to be stuffed.

Always packed tightly with the same filling, obligation.

Once adorned with different colored feathers, now plucked off into dust.

But now they are nothing more than Thanksgiving rust.

Three large gifts wrapped with different themes.

Once an external excitement, now all there is to see, is old withered paper.

The bows are the same, large and precisely tied.

Pulled off one by one, with large hands, vanishing the once joyous Christmas pride.

Three little humans now full grown, feeling the need for change, of holiday traditions past known.