Partaking By Laurie Kuntz

 

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Partaking

 

This season's expectations

oblige the table 

filled with grains and greens

and the company seated around.

 

To be grateful is to forget  

the wrongs of the day, 

the nefarious clouds,

the background noise 

and all that falls away.

 

Some are given a chance

to move on and embrace

a time of silence and solitude.

 

Look at the sky,

catch the random flight 

of a hummingbird,

accept each cloud passing

over sun and land.

 

Our eyes,

having seen much,

beckon us back to the table 

to partake despite all 

that has been taken away.

 

© Laurie Kuntz

Laurie Kuntz is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time Best of the Net Nominee. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize.  She  published six books of poetry.  Her latest That Infinite Roar, published by Gyroscope  Press. Her themes come from working with Southeast Asian refugees, living as an expatriate in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Brazil, and raising a husband and son.