Poetry: November 13, 2012 Issue [#5364]
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 This week: Thankful Thanks
  Edited by: Quizmo LaGrande Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ~Elbert Hubbard

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy


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Letter from the editor

Still in the wake of Veterans' Day and with Thanksgiving Day just around the corner, thankfulness is the order of the day, of the season, and well, heck... we should all be thankful everyday!

Tis the holiday time of year.. the air is cooling. I'm now living close to the Canadian border in the great northwest. It's frickin' cold up here; but, I'm thankful for a warm home and a warm handsome being to hold me close at night. (And I'm not talking about the dog!)

It is the season of blessings, and yes, I'm big on thankfulness and of counting one's blessings. I love the fact that I am so blessed that I have been able to travel and experience different regions of the continental United States with nary a penny in my pocket nor a destination in mind for the past year or so. I am so grateful and thankful to all the angels who I've met and who have helped me on my way. Maybe I'm here to stay, maybe not, but all-in-all, it's been an amazing journey!

We live in a wonderful world. Look around you, people, there is so much to be thankful for. It's time to write it down. Write down what you are grateful for, and at the same time, let your inner poet run true! Make a list everyday of the things you treasure--be it your fingers, your lover, your children, the food you eat. I can't emphasize enough, gratitude is the attitude of abundance.

I'm thankful for fingers, for Writing.com,
The Internet, keyboards, and my dear old Mom,
For furry white friends, Huckleberries, and knees,
The amazing Northwest with all of its trees!

You can do better than that. Send me your list of thanks... rhyme it, time it... read it to your loved ones on Thanksgiving day or print it out and leave it at their holiday gathering place-settings; it will be a gift they never forget.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!


Editor's Picks

Good stuff.. in appreciation of our imaginations..
Elegy to Imagination Open in new Window. (E)
A tribute to imagination
#1725487 by BIG BAD WOLF is Merry Author IconMail Icon


To our military personnel
No Greater Love... Open in new Window. (E)
In perpetual gratitude to those who lived and/or died for those they never knew.
#716779 by Pam Sears Author IconMail Icon


And appropriately enough to poets
 Gratitude Open in new Window. (ASR)
Discovering poetry, and how I relate to the poets and the poetry...
#1018250 by The Critic Author IconMail Icon


In Thanksgiving fun
 Thanksgiving Leftovers-- Ha! Open in new Window. (E)
WC contest about what we did with our Thanksgiving leftovers!
#784325 by CHRISTMAS cub-BELLS R RINGING! Author IconMail Icon


And a haiku for you
 The Feast Open in new Window. (E)
A Thanksgiving haiku
#910591 by Waltz Invictus Author IconMail Icon

 
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Ask & Answer

Another "I Am" statement from Seamus Leo Author Icon

For I am
Self declaration is a powerful statment indeed.
To which I lack in spelling (obviously)
however. This is due to investigating the practice of typing and spelling and the humility of trying to better move ahead in the I and the am.
Study your symbolism of the Pre-Raphialites and the romantics. The snake has to be tamed in the lyerical style of your words and phrasing. i suggest the author write several poems about snake and its power and enchantments.

The serpant eats its tail.
The poem is open, definitly not a failure by any means, but has become a mouse instead of a giant Qestilquatal of a poem while it lacks a constraint of visualiation on the aspects of "coil' and of "Mythical Snake" and forgets the beauty of elongating,constricting, biting, ingesting, shedding of the skin, toiling and snapping its jaws around with its prey. be the reptile you are meant to be.


We are what we are. Don't let anyone take away your uniqueness.

I thank you and love you all.

God has blessed us, everyone.

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