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Happy Monday poets! Today begins Thanksgiving week here in the states. We have two days of school and then students are out the rest of the week. Thursday is Thanksgiving & Friday—well, all I can say is that I will not be one of the millions out gouging each other in the eye to get the last great deal.
I like Thanksgiving though, as there are no expectations. There are no presents or treats you have to take care of or someone to get upset over. We spend the day cooking, watching football, playing football, napping, taking a walk to try and wake up & just being with family.
Today, I thought it might be good to stretch our attitude of thankfulness. Even if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we have things to be thankful for.
So, what or who are you thankful for?
Talk, I’m listening.
& if you are traveling this week, be safe out there
& enjoy.
~Brian
dVerse 
Happy Thanksgiving U.S.friends! 🙂 I am thankful for warmer days – we had a brutal cold snap last week that is mercifully over. (I know, I know – over for now! ha ha).
I’m thankful for all of you wonderful and lovely dVerse voices – you all rock! Be well and be safe, and always find something to be thankful for. Sometimes it’s not what we get but what passes us by that should get the biggest thanks!
You mirror my thoughts.. I’m thankful for having started to write, and definitely happy for this site…
🙂
ha. warmer days…i think your cold front made it here….freezing rain and ice over night tonight…i may be thankful not to have school tomorrow…smiles..
we had that freezing rain yesterday – it was very icy out! Maybe no school isn’t a bad thing if the weather is not being nice! 🙂
Bjorn is a poet and we all know it.
He writes in rhyme but not all the time:)
I think you sent the cold weather our way… brrr!
Ah sorry about that, I meant to send it to upper Siberia! 🙂
oh nice.. happy thanksgiving… you know… i’m a little bit envious of how you americans celebrate thanksgiving.. with turkey and everything…hmmm… smiles… def. a lot to be thankful for and it’s good to remember… i’m thankful for many many things but mostly at the moment for knowing that my daughter has a good time in costa rica and that we’ll have another christmas that we can celebrate with my mom…she’s not so young any more and i’m not taking it for granted….yeah…so… smiles…
So much to be thankful for!
Thanksgiving would be such a nice relief in the middle of our long and dark autumn… turkey and long nice cooking sounds so nice..
smiles…great to have another year with your mom…most def….we will be with my father in law for thanksgiving, if we make it there with the nasty weather we are supposed to get tonight….and glad you dau is doind well too…smiles.
We don’t have Thanksgiving in Europe, but just about every prompt I’ve read recently has been about thankfulness. I am thankful for family and friendship, warmth and laughter, music and poetry and the beauty of nature.
Here’s the little poem I wrote for one of the prompts:
A life filled with giving
makes a life of gratitude.
It is more blessed indeed
to give than to receive.
The joy in a child’s face
as she opens a gift
is thanks enough, I believe.
Love the poem.. and the happiness of giving is truly nice. wish there were more people that would do so..
I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for this, Viv.
Viv, you said it so well. Lovely poem.
that is a lovely little verse….was talking to the kids today about thankfulness…and i think we often overlook many of the small things we should be thankful for in comparison to the lives of many you know….
I’m thankful for that picture making my mouth water!
Not good… it’s bedtime… I can’t be hungry now.
ha. def looking forward to thursday to make that picture a reality…smiles.
I’m grateful for friends, family and faith. For poets and poetry (and that means all of you). For nature in all her moods. For my husband and dogs! For another day to enjoy life. Oh, and for my kidney donor, Paula, who made that possible. Even for those not-so-fun things that have helped me learn, grow and better enjoy the good times. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Those of you who celebrate–watch out for heartburn and hangovers! Oh, and Happy Hanakkuh to my Jewish friends.
Happy Thanksgiving back Victoria.. a little envy for this holiday and others — But on Sunday it’s the first of advent. and here we light the first of the four candles… mmm..
I love that advent tradition. It’s been a few years since we did it. You got me thinking.
smiles on being thankful for nature…and all her moods…i am as well..and she has so much to teach us as well…cool on the kidney donor, def thankful to her as well…smiles….def thankful for all my friends…they keep me going…
I am thankful for so much, not least of all my poet friends around the world.
I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING – ANYONE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH KELVIN? ISN’T HE IN THE PHILIPPINES? I WONDER IF HE IS OK. I SENT HIM AN EMAIL BUT DID NOT HEAR BACK. HE IS QUITE RESPONSIVE.
I sent him an e-mail and haven’t heard back. Very worrisome to me. Glad you brought it up here. Brian or Claudia…do you know anything?
he posted on sunday so i believe he is ok…heard from him on monday as well…but def was heavy on my heart for a bit…
OK … are we supposed to post a poem? I don’t see a place to do this?????
I think just comments, Liz, like you did. No links on Monday posts.
but hey if you wrote a poem let us know…i will gladly read….but monday is usually just in the comments….
Thanks Victoria! I appreciate that.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my USA friends and I am filled with gratitude for ALL of my poet friends from around this earth.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our US friends ~ Wishing you safe travels and happy shopping for those who will brave the Friday specials ~ I am thankful for many things this year – health of my parents, blessings of my own family, and the support and encouragement of this community ~
Wishing you all happy week (I’m on a writing break but will be around) ~
I am thankful that my mum is travelling from the UK to spend three weeks with us. Having family in the UK when I live in the US is hard, makes these times all the more special. I am also thankful for my husband who gets me and loves me for who I am . . . and for my pets who make me laugh. Happy Thanksgiving Brian and everyone else at dVerse, you guys inspire me.
Happy Thanksgiving for Thursday to all my newly found friends and acquaintances at DVerse – this I am grateful for, for many of you have been so supportive of my poetic endeavours. The opportunity to express and write – another. Having my parents still with me, though the road is tough – another. My children – my friends…. the ‘virtual people’ that bring this world just a little bit closer. So many things to be thankful for. So thank you ~ all of you and I hope that you have a wonderful Celebration and be safe. x
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the USA poets. As many have said already , we are fortunate to have dverse to showcase our work and communicate with like minds.
I hope you all enjoy Thursday.
Enjoy Thanksgiving. Our Christmas festivities are already beginning in Australia and there is always a long, slow, fun month which leads up to Christmas and New Year. Then again, summertime is always party time.
Happy Thanksgiving to all U.S. poets. Nice post, Brian. I posted a Gratitude poem on Sunday, as you know, Brian … thanks for your kind comment on it. Gratitude is very important to me. I do a daily gratitude meditation in the morning. There is so much we take for granted and we often focus on what’s lacking, instead of being thankful for what we already have … for who we are in this moment. I’m grateful for it all. Smiles 🙂
Gratitude! I’m getting better at noticing the small things, like a friend bringing the mail up from the first floor … like eyes meeting and smiles. I have such mixed feeling about Thanksgiving Day itself as a holiday. I belong to a network learning to understand indigenous peoples issues, like the true stories of the day in history. I am grateful that I never learned that kind of fear and hate and destruction, that I will spend the day with my family cooking and eating together, that my 90 year old parents in upstate NY are still independent–driving themselves to the party in Ohio. And then health and etc. I could go on for an hour I think.
Happy safe end-of-year gatherings and love to everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving all! I ‘m thankful for the “little” daily blessings: a walk with the dog, a hug from my man, laughing with my son(s), and breathing the crisp November air. Thankful too for the beauty of words…all YOUR poetic words that shine beauty in an often ugly world. Please pass the turkey!
Love this thoughtful post and wonderful comments, Brian. I considered your question about what I am thankful for and the thing that topped my list is my sanity. I don’t mean this lightly…..the more I hear and read about Alzheimer’s, and the fact that it has now touched a friend of mine (a brilliant lawyer, classical music expert), the more thankful I am for mental health, quirkiness and bouts of depression included!
I’m exhausted. Taking care of my 4 year old grandson, sometimes caring for my newborn granddaughter and caring too for my daughter and son-in-law. Think I’m complainging? Not. I couldn’t be more grateful for my little family and the fact that I can help out. Oh, and hubby, he’s home baking. Will join us tomorrow. I’m so grateful for this and so many other people and things. Hope everyone has a happy week and can find so much gratitude that, like me, you can hardly express it. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you Brian for inviting our thoughts.
In Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. If you do a little googling you’ll see that the first Thanksgiving originated in Canada. It is interesting to look at the slight differences that we have. Our Thanksgiving focuses on “harvest” time. It involves a three day weekend, but really is about one day. Turkey and pumpkin pie….oh yes!! Giving thanks and being grateful for all that we have seems to be the common element.
The native daycare that I work at has a Grandparents Feast, reflective of their culture and giving thanks for all that the “Creator” has given them.
I am thankful for family, friends, love and health. I am blessed with wonderful opportunities such as this little place to say hello and share the words that flow from my heart.
We are all different , but we are the same.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! 🙂
Hi everyone, late to the party, but I loved reading everyone’s comments of thankfulness. There’s something about that, taking a moment to step back with heartfelt appreciation … somehow just doing that fills me up.
I am very thankful to have been welcomed amongst such a positive and diverse 🙂 group of poetry lovers! I haven’t been around very long but the short while that I have participated with y’all has really blessed me.
Wishing you all warm hugs on a chilly night!
Although I am a bit inconsistent myself in life; I am thankful and reassured that the Pub is always open. Just to read and share with others is an honor. Thank you all for your writing, reading, and sharing your comments to help us along in the pleasures of sharing and writing!
I would like to echo the comments made here of gratefulness for this place that is so accepting and open to all who come here to express themselves in writing, for the beauty of the world, friends, family, and health…and as Susan stated, appreciation of the history of the occasion’s true, difficult stories of the origin of the first Thanksgiving – and of those around the globe who live under strife and worse living conditions – if only we could share more with those who are left out.
Happy Thanksgiving, Brian. I hope you enjoy the holiday . Happy Thanksgiving fellow poets. I am grateful for family and I am grateful for this community that we are a part of. 🙂