HappyHiker
11-28-13, 10:48am
For me, Thanksgiving is about friendship and sharing food and laughter. This, then, is why I wrote this about a cherished holiday:
Thanks Giving for Friends
Give me these cinnamon-scented days
with their fall of golden light
and ginger leaves drifting down.
Grant me these velvet starry nights
while I nest and pull high the comforter.
Oh these Thanksgiving days
give me pause to think of you
my spicy friends of all the seasons
we spiral dancers of moon and sun.
Pile on the gravy and the dressing
Pass me the sweet and the mashed.
Pies of pumpkin, apple and pecan
Oh my! Fill my plate full and high.
For you who nourish all my days
I whisper words of gratitude
And especially now, when I feel
so filled with home-cooked love.
--Patti Frank
copyright 2008
Thanks Giving for Friends
Give me these cinnamon-scented days
with their fall of golden light
and ginger leaves drifting down.
Grant me these velvet starry nights
while I nest and pull high the comforter.
Oh these Thanksgiving days
give me pause to think of you
my spicy friends of all the seasons
we spiral dancers of moon and sun.
Pile on the gravy and the dressing
Pass me the sweet and the mashed.
Pies of pumpkin, apple and pecan
Oh my! Fill my plate full and high.
For you who nourish all my days
I whisper words of gratitude
And especially now, when I feel
so filled with home-cooked love.
--Patti Frank
copyright 2008