Monday, October 14, 2024

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on No/Thanks(Giving) during Hard times [for Whatever Reason]

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 (with which you can re-tell your stories) about the mixed emotions  toward this Thanksgiving long weekend:

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 dinner
between mouthfuls and refills
this hushed silence

Chen-ou Liu

thanksgiving leftovers
all the things we
didn’t say

Sondra Byrnes

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