THANKSGIVING DAY

Photo by S. Auberle


yes, I've posted this before, and yes, I'll post it again, for I think it is a lovely and perfect prayer for this day of giving thanks...

Thanks and Blessings be to the Sun and the Earth

for this bread and this wine,

this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food;

Thanks be and Blessing to them

who prepare it, who serve it;

Thanks and Blessings to them

who share it

(and also the absent and the dead).

Thanks and Blessing to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant and tend it,

harvest and gather it

(may they not want):

Thanks and Blessing to them who work

and Blessings to them who cannot;

may they not want--for their hunger

sours the wine and robs

the taste from the salt.

Thanks be for the sustenance and strength

for our dance and work of justice, of peace.

~Rafael Jesus Gonzalez

Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving to all...

Photo by S. Auberle

This first appeared in Crow Ink...

NOVEMBER 

There is always that last day,

the one you never want to see

and yet what is more perfect?

This is the day before the day

when November settles in.

This is the day out in the woods

when last silver moths

are winging from branch to leaf,

a day of the last chorus

of swans in the bay.

Today last leaves are letting go,

tumbling down

to the beckoning earth.

Today is the day

I watch a sleek mink

trotting into the forest

fur     gleaming     dark     wet

a fish in its mouth

wriggling in the ecstasy

of November’s little deaths.