Thanksgiving Memorial Poems

Memorial Day picnic by the lake, listening to the baseball game
    Thanksgiving, an indoor feast, screen tuned to the football game

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Well done his bat of Tendulkar 
Doing balls to role far and far
A statue now for him to tell more
Thanking for all his Six and...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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i am dying aren't I
there is no box in time
where we can keep the truth
the knowing within
always betrays our deepest wishes
the dying needs a hand...

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THIS IS MY LAW SUIT BELOW
I TRULY NEED A LAWYER PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME GET A LAWYER TO TAKE MY CASE IT IS A WIENER...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent...

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SONNET XIV
I SING OF HIS FAITHFULNESS

Since Childhood have I severally been told
That the Blessed Mind Knows Gratitude
Till lately, this has been more of a Mystery

That...

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Mother's day 
A day for reflection 
A day for rejoicing 
A day of thanksgiving 

Mother's day 
A day of understanding 
A day of appreciating 
A...

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Holidays with a change in the weather

      It starts with a chill in the air.  January the first day...

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(special thanks to a friend who shared this tribute to Solomon Mahlangu)



Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of...

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The Nameless


Slipping through the sieve of history,

the nameless rest.

Not for the nameless are roads renamed, nor monuments built.

Not for the nameless are songs sung, nor...

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It's not about barbeques,
Hamburgers and franks
It's a day set aside,
For offering our thanks,
For those who died,
Or were injured or maimed
To fight against evil,
Whatever it's named

Pity...

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