Happy Thanksgiving! (poem)

 Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! When Friday arrives, be sure to visit Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} for Poetry Friday Roundup. I'm posting a day early because I am so very thankful this year! 

Also, for this week's ArtSpeak: FOLK ART series I have a Thanksgiving-ish poem inspired by art created by Alabama artist Trés Taylor. 

I wrote a poem earlier this year after Trés' gorgeous work: "Casting for Dreams."

Today's poem employs a "4 x 4" form I *think* I learned about on Linda Mitchell's blog A Word Edgewise. It has the following rules:

4 syllables in each line


4 lines in each stanza
4 stanzas


4 times repeating a refrain line – line 1 in the first stanza, line 2 in the second, and so on.

I wanted to try short sentences. And I wanted near-rhymes, not perfect ones. Thanks so much for reading!

The Sharing Table

We gather round.
We feast for days.
We offer thanks.
We dream of rain.

We close our eyes.
We gather round.
We nuzzle up.
We burrow down.

Our bellies fill.
Our hearts expand.
We gather round,
stars in our hands.

Time to warble!
Wear a sky-crown!
Bless this table
we gather round.

- Irene Latham