Sunday, December 1, 2019

A Short Thanksgiving Prayer

Be happy in your home and children
and your people and your king
said Odysseus before continuing his journey.
So I am taking his advice
because I am happy in my grown sons
this Thanksgiving season--
in the way they sat around their mother's table
and talked and laughed in voices
that rose and fell and rose and fell
like the waves of a wine-dark sea.

2 comments:

radagast said...

That king, though.

Jim said...

this is so great. The imagery of the waves and movement is beautiful. One of my favorites.