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