Looking for a good poem to give everyone on Thanksgiving a poem without the word blessings without too many incantations a poem that is unexpected but does not say I am Grateful For This does not use any of the words I especially dislike empowered especially
Why not ask your many readers to each contribute a line to a new poem which your community creates together of one key thing each is grateful for or is blessed with? Trust your community to create something beautiful that gathers you all together.
Dear Irwin, You wrote a poem (!!!) xxx
Thanks for sparing us all the self-conscious
Strained arrogance for an articulated THANKS.
Thanks is best when field deeply, quietly, intrinsically.
The way I feel about this poem...
Why not ask your many readers to each contribute a line to a new poem which your community creates together of one key thing each is grateful for or is blessed with? Trust your community to create something beautiful that gathers you all together.
I love the idea
https://substack.com/redirect/f09bd110-5423-49e4-8bff-6f623913128b?r=8tqjd
I got this from Suleika Jaouad's newsletter.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Have you noticed that OF COURSE is replacing NO PROBLEM which replaced FOR SURE which replaced THANKS which replaced THANK YOU.
W. S. Merwin, Thanks
What a beautiful poem Anne ( thank you) x
Lucky to know you and read your poems ♡
Enjoy whatever you eat on Thursday (and every day) and enjoy those you choose to spend your time with.
And you have created your Good Poem. However do you do it?
Happy Thanksgiving Jeannie Guy xxx
“Gravy” by Raymond Carver is my favorite!
thank you
I love this poem too. Do you know he asked for the poem to be on his tombstone?
I didn’t know that and I love it. Also, thanks for your poems which I look forward to daily
thanks for reading them
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perfect thank you
You are very welcome.