Group: Gold Member
Posts: 18,591
Joined: 2-August 03
From: Southwest New Jersey, USA
Member No.: 6
Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr.
Writer of: Poetry
Referred By:Lori
Thanksgiving Struggle
home from gastric sleeve surgery two days thankful that Tuesday night's pain had ended and that prayer, patience and tenderness pays son, daughters and grandchildren descended
two ounces clear liquid every three hours savoring my daughters' whipping up feast dog nudging for a scrap that he devours turkey, ham and fixin’s… a taste at least?
small scoop of Jell-O with endless sips of water Thanksgiving dinner
Black Friday wife and daughters head to mall son-in-law watching all eight of the kids I tend the kitchen to keep the mess small sneak a cube of cheese; diet on the skids
Group: Praetorian
Posts: 8,882
Joined: 27-August 04
From: Bariloche, Argentine Patagonia
Member No.: 78
Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
Writer of: Poetry & Prose
Referred By:David Ting
Hi Daniel, I think you posted part of this on FB. Not the haibuns, of which I like the one below best. You've been thru' a tough time and I'm glad you're gradually getting better. You'll be ok for Christmas. Enjoy reading your news in the form of haibuns. Synthetic!
The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights.
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