Thursday, November 28, 2013

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...

Sunday, November 03, 2013

NOVEMBER

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.