# The Way Holidays Collide

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Caribbean American Heritage Month, Dominican Mothers Day, Holidays, Poetry, Separate Holidays, culture, mothers day, time

Wrote this when it was both pride month and Caribbean American Heritage Month and being half dominican I couldn’t let that second one pass me by. My last post covered pride month and this poem covered the caribbean heritage part. This is a poem about Dominican Mother’s Day and the way culture can make you celebrate something again so soon. Was on break when I posted this which delayed it a couple of weeks. Originally posted in June 2024.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Way Holidays Collide&nbsp;

 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno&nbsp;

 

 

The holidays fly by&nbsp;

 

But it's not too common to get the same one twice especially so soon&nbsp;

 

But for some it happens right in that last week before June&nbsp;

 

Different places and cultures celebrate at different times&nbsp;

 

In different ways&nbsp;

 

And with the way time soars by sometimes you can forget that in a passing haze

 

Until it hits you hard

 

What you have forgotten&nbsp;

 

Leaving barely enough time to consider even a card&nbsp;

 

Of course one could argue there's nothing to be boughten&nbsp;&nbsp;

 

If you celebrated it before why acknowledge it again&nbsp;

 

Wouldn't it be better to celebrate just the one and not the other&nbsp;

 

It'd be easier to do it that way but ignoring a piece of culture like that just feels off&nbsp;

 

So you manage to do something small and once again celebrate the mothers&nbsp;

 

The caribbean way this time which you didn't want to write-off&nbsp;

 

So you did what you could with what time would abide&nbsp;

 

And hopefully next year you'll remember where your two worlds intersect&nbsp;

 

So it won't feel like you let them plus their holidays almost collide

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