THANKSGIVING PRAYER 

Thank you

my Lord and God

for gift of life and health

remembering our lost loved ones

once more.

Heed not

our weaknesses,

teach us how to forgive

and live in harmony with all

others.

So that

once more this world

of hate will be again

a place of love and peacefulness,

Amen.

Thanksgiving prayer

For three years in a row now, I have been posting this Thanksgiving prayer. Here it is again and I hope you don't get bored by it. This Thanksgiving Day I will be hosting our family's traditional meal and and all members of my family and probably a few close friends will be here to celebrate with me.

THANKSGIVING PRAYER

Thank you
my Lord and God
for gift of life and health
remembering our lost loved ones
once more.

Heed not
our weaknesses,
teach us how to forgive
and live in harmony with all
others.

So that
once more this world
of hate will be again
a place of love and peacefulness,
Amen.

© November 2004-2011

ALONENESS

Dry leaves
smother the bench
where we used to daydream
and watch the waning sun give way
to night.
Alone,
I try to resurrect those days
which seem eternal spring.
But winter's here
again.


Reader's comments:

This mirror cinquain (2 4 6 8 2 2 8 6 4 2) creates an almost overwhelming sense of isolation. The image of "Dry leaves / smother" ing is a dominant image in the first verse; followed by the image of the "waning sun" are two well juxtaposed images that establish the theme of passing--the passing of natural objects and the passing of human relationships--the daydreams and a spouse who is now absent. In the second verse "resurrect" confirms the images of dying in verse 1, and juxtaposed with "eternal spring" and the arrival of "winter . . . again" intensifies the feeling expressed in the title. The expert selection of words to convey an image and a feeling is illustrated in these words: "smother", "used to daydream", "waning / to night", "resurrect" / "eternal spring", and "winter". "Aloneness" is a well crafted cinquain.