I'm focusing on gratitude--today, tonight, this month, this year, this life.
Keep me honest, God, and don't let me stray from thanking you for everything.
Winter: Tonight: Sunset
by David Budbill
Tonight at sunset walking on the snowy road,
my shoes crunching on the frozen gravel, first
through the woods, then out into the open fields
....
(Read the whole thing here, at The Writer's Almanac.)
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The round up this week is at Keri Recommends.
Photo credit: FreeImages.com
11 comments:
Karen, winter can offer us time for glistening wonder as we hone in on the minuscule facets we observe. Thank you for your morning shot of thankfulness in the photograph, words, and poetry.
Thank you for sharing this poem. It (and the poet) are new to me. IT is a reminder to pause and be grateful. The picture is lovely, too.
Did you read the rest of that Writer's Almanac? It was Tolkien's birthday and they quote him as saying, "I wrote Lord of the Rings to provide a world for the [Elvish] language. ... I should have preferred to write the entire book in Elvish." I'm having a moment of gratitude that he liked inventing languages so much :-)
I especially like "today, now, alive
in this life, in this evening, under this sky."
This is a great poem of gratitude. Sunsets are a gift. I'm grateful this quiet early morning to have an abundance of beautiful poetry to read, selected and presented with love by fellow poets. This is a delight.
Amen and amen
Not to be repetitive, but Amen.
It seems a common poetic theme -- "let me tell you about this simple thing that made me glad to be alive" -- and were I a poet, I would like to write a poem on the theme of all the simple things that *would* make me glad to see, only I won't be alive to see them. At least not in a living-in-this-world sort of way.
There will be rather a lot of them.
It sounds weird to phrase it this way, but for me the sky is one of the most grounding natural wonders. Especially at sunrise or sunset, I look and am reminded God is in charge and WOW is he good to us! Ann Voskamp asserts that it is hard to feel any negative emotions when we are focused on feeling grateful and I find her to be right!
Thanks, all, for sharing in the thankfulness. :)
So lovely!
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