A Very Thankful Poem-a-Day Friday

Last updated on: April 13, 2012 at 6:00 am by michaboyett

A Very Thankful Poem-a-Day Friday 2012-04-13T06:00:51-07:00 michaboyett

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I’ve missed our Thankful Tuesdays, friends! So much so that my mind has been filling over with thankful bullet points and I keep thinking: Scratch that on a list! It just feels too far away to wait till Tuesday. So…

I’m Thankful for:

The gift of walking through Holy Week with all of you
Being married to a man whose eyes are always a little red and shiny after Easter services
A deck where we can host an Easter meal
Easter egg hunts and Easter-clad children in the backyard
Eating boiled eggs a bit dye-stained on the white and for how little I mind
Happy happy news from my brother-in-law
Prayers sweetly answered for friends with health scares
My baby’s near running skills
Looking from the kitchen sink toward the living room and seeing both my boys on their backs on the carpet, holding their blankets and laughing at each other.
A baby who can’t stop smiling even when he’s sick (and making fake coughs and fake nose snorts in an attempt to make me laugh)
A migraine Sunday night: The small reminder of the suffering so many people live with in daily life. A husband who stays awake rubbing my shoulders and gets up with the kids.
August’s love for gardening
The joy of trimming back overgrown plants. (Cutting stuff off and pulling stuff out of the ground! So therapeutic! Even though I have no idea what I’m doing!)
Austin in the springtime (It’s really so lovely…I know, I know…summer will be rough.)
That feeling when the dishes are clean (no matter that it only lasts three hours)
Reading a book with both boys in my lap
Windows open, birds singing
And this Someecard that makes me cackle (yes, I said ‘cackle’) every time I see it.

And now, a poem from my favorite Jane Kenyon (whose poems I should really just quote here every Friday):

The Suitor

by Jane Kenyon

We lie back to back. Curtains
lift and fall,
like the chest of someone sleeping.
Wind moves the leaves of the box elder;
they show their light undersides,
turning all at once
like a school of fish.
Suddenly I understand that I am happy.
For months this feeling
has been coming closer, stopping
for short visits, like a timid suitor.

Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Graywolf Press, 1996

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