Thanksgiving Confusion Poems

Swollen knees bring
fears of blocked tubes -- 
harbingers of destruction,
cold limbs, looming amputations.

Swollen knees bring
alternate explanations for pain –
cysts maybe? fears subside.
maybe just an infection…

Swollen...

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Wishes hang, like icicles
Clinging to the steely gray
Branches where silence breathes
Promises, echoing through
The winds, hastening hope and 
Anticipation, resting on the 
Colors of joy, peace...

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Thankful

Thanks... giving...
It is a single moment of peace, 
in all our lives, 
captured at a dinner table, 
in a small kitchen, 
a soup line...
or even...

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He closes out one more day
And writes down the tally mark
He puts all the toys away
And locks them all in against dark

Here is a family...

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Unsettled Calm

Why am I writing this, 
when they say... 
really no one cares? 
I don't believe they are right. 
The more "they" try to prove...

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I have this talent - I can create an ex-boyfriend out of thin air. **snapping fingers**

Lisa and I had just gotten back to school from...

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Before the fog of trauma I saw pearly gates
Ajar with festivities of joy and laughter
I remember frozen moment in time
Brazen forbidden touch, my mind unguarded.

The...

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CONFINEMENT 


I was confined in my solitude.
The cloud seams dark
And all hope seams  lost! 

I was confined in my solitude
It ate me deep, like...

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I'm Defined, Strengthened, I'm Thankful

For years and years, Thanksgiving meant nothing to me.
Far too much heartache I faced on this day.
I lost my wife when...

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Presence Only

This is the 
Starting point for all
Healthful considering..
This Oneness assumed
Will find clarity
In all following thoughts
And perceptions..
Of course~~
This reverses 
What we call our normal
Way of...

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so many no homes
so many alone
they will be
you'll see
looking for hot food
weather mabe cool
to some its bad news
they have the
THANKGIVING BLUES...

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I was dressed in rags, threadbare and worn
But I looked at others with feelings of scorn
The rags I was wearing looked fancy to me
They were...

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CORNUCOPIA 

Let's eat sweets complete
Thanksgiving pies, yum! fruits, nuts, cakes
Unloose belts eats, more. . . .

S-some
W-watch
E-everyone full
E-everywhere-
T-talks

P-people
O-ordinary
T-truly
A-angry
T-towards
O-oppositions

P-principles
I-ingesting all edibles
E-everything
As I rise from the table
I enable
Myself...

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Turkey Duck And Junior

Some days like Sundays, turkeys are not too smart
They don’t go to church or drive cars or sing opera
One Sunday a turkey...

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Even then though—you ask how!
How can she not return the hatred!
But we humans cannot think so beyond
To even dare comprehend the mystery sentiments she possesses
Surrounding...

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