Special Feature: Haiku and Tanka Selected for Canadian Thanksgiving

My Dear Friends:

Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada (occurring on the second Monday in October and six weeks earlier than Thanksgiving Day in the USA)

Share with you a set of haiku and tanka about mixed emotions of this Thanksgiving long weekend.

thanksgiving --

overflowing with children

of children

Susan Murata

a colleague wishes me

Thanksgiving cheer --

but I have

a desk full of dark

anniversaries unspoken

M. Kei

Thanksgiving drive

after the bustle

quiet fields, deep shadows

Harriet S. Bates 

thanksgiving

our latest argument

to eat in or out

the blue shrouded mountains

hold the sunset so easily

Thomas Martin

thanksgiving leftovers

all the things we

didn’t say

Sondra Byrnes

To conclude today's Special Feature post, I would like to share with you the following Thanksgiving tanka written in an understated tone:

first frost alert

this Thanksgiving morning

alone

I heat the tea kettle 

and wait for its whistle

FYI: For more about understatement, see "To the Lighthouse: A Rhetorical Device, Understatement"

And the following tanka I wrote last year could be read as a sequel:

alone

to reheat leftovers ...

the memories

we didn't share but bury inside

on Thanksgiving night

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Chen-ou