Thanksgiving Blessings

Thanksgiving Blessings Living in the presence of the eternal’s bounty A grace note in soaring gratitude Never slipping through the fingers of the heart Like escaping bits of sand The patois of blessing heard through horns of plenty Adorned by chrysanthemum, asters and bittersweet Like a holiday bonnet worn In scents of sweet communion spice of familiar voices, And warm fires of those that still echo in arias of grace At a table place saved in memory, A celebration of nourishing transformations – Solstice to equinox Summer seeds planted in anticipation yield Wheat to bread – bread to savory pudding – Apples to cider, grapes to wine or raisins Sun splashed berries to preserves Spent leaves to life giving loams Barren laughter now blessed In soils of tender benediction, Scattered beauty’s aura of twirling abundance, Scarlet, orange and ochre, In cozy harvest spirit flames Transforms the simple ordinary into a banquet Anointed by familial grace and history Like grape vines eternally entwined in grateful, Ever baptized by harvest mists Wearing new silver veils of nourishing rain, To bless the winding road home. 11-11-21 Contest: Thanksgiving Blessings Sponsor: Regina McIntosh