This week's poem comes to you courtesy of an actual Facebook exchange with a friend this week.
Happy Poetry Friday!
Hospitality
by Karen Edmisten
My friend said she had
"hospital dinner guests" coming over.
I pictured invalids on gurneys
being wheeled up to her dining room table.
This is not what she meant at all.
She, a doctor's wife, meant
that another physician, one who was
planning to move soon
to our area, was coming for dinner while
in town on a house-hunting mission.
Still, I like to picture the gurneys
around my friend's table.
I hear her broad and joyful laugh,
as she chops, stirs, and shares a meal with any,
with all, who would be wheeled.
~~~~~
The Poetry Friday roundup is at Today's Little Ditty.
9 comments:
"with any, with all who would be wheeled" - smiling here,thanks!
Oh, yes. Your first impression is definitely the best!
Charming! Everything is open to interpretation. :)
Maybe your misunderstanding was actually a deeper understanding :-)
We all can benefit from a broad and joyful laugh, with or without the wheels. :)
Her broad laugh--yes!
Thanks, all, for entering into first impressions, new interpretations, misunderstandings, deeper understandings, and broad and joyful laughs with me. :)
One of my friends likes to jokes that he's having dinner with Cow Orkers (Co-Workers). Maybe he would even spell it Orc-ers as a nod to Tolkien.
Brenda, you could call the dinner party nod to Tolkien Hobbitality. :)
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