This lament is about the shortened hours of sunlight during winter, that can create lowered moods. Called the Winter Blues, they are caused by days of waking in the dark and coming home in the dark, after work. Then too, many days are further darkened by rain or snow clouds.

This poem is a Tri-fall.
The Tri-fall is a simple poem of jagged lines, created by Jan Turner, that consists of three 6-line stanzas, for a total of 18 lines (all factors of 3). The rhyme scheme is:
a,b,c,a,b,c
and meter for each stanza is as follows:
6/3/8, 6/3/8.
This form requires little to no punctuation and can be written on any subject matter.

This photograph was taken by the author himself in December, 2012.

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