Poetry Friday - Still Smiling

  

        Poetry Friday is with Jama Rattigan HERE at her website, Jama's Alphabet Soup serving up a delicious poem of leftovers. Thanksgiving is on its way!  Thanks for hosting, Jama!

       I am traveling next week to be with my son and family for Thanksgiving and gratitude is on my mind. I've kept this poem from Your Daily Poem in a file titled "gratitude" and read it more than once during the year. It's a lesson to me for the best of living. I see that Mary Lee has commented which I almost never do. Now that I'm sharing one of Jayne Jaudon Ferrer's poems, perhaps I should comment more to tell her how much I enjoy waking up to a poem every morning. Here's the beginning of 

Some Days Most Things Go Well, 

                                        by Rob Baker

despite feeling puffy lately,
you’ve lost five pounds
                   —or gained five
but shrug it off
as an acceptable price
for good cake, wine,
and camaraderie;

all eighteen commute lights
glow green
                 —or red,
but the pauses
slow your pulse,
 

           the rest is HERE

         I wonder if you who have read this special poem might have one brief moment you 

would add in the comments, that small "something" where you are able 

to see the best of both worlds in it?

         My mail comes late, ugh,

           some days not until seven.

           But I have learned that

           when I walk the block

           to the locked group of boxes,

           my wonderful mailman, Mickey,

           is often there, still smiling

           after his long day,

           glad to chat and say "How are you?"

           excited to hand me

           the letters and magazines.

           Now I'm smiling while

           walking back home.

                               Linda Baie ©

  Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, however you celebrate!