PERSPECTIVE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

"If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice."

                                                         – Meister Eckhardt

 

I have so much to be grateful for in my life that I’ll spare all you readers a recitation of what is a very long list. Rather, I offer to all my new visitors who are here for the first time as a result of MSN featuring this Space on What’s Your Story? as well as to my blog friends already familiar with him, an appropriately themed poem for the day by my favorite poet. I also posted below a photo from his web site, www.partialsight.com for those desiring a more in-depth look at his work. (Need I say he holds a prominent spot on my Thanksgiving list?)

 

perspective
 
home for most feels large,
full of the owned accumulation of a past.
friends, relations orbit
(beloved Moon, uncle Pluto in Baltimore)
exerting tidal forces, streaking the sky according to importance,
the self enjoying Copernican  pride of place.
 
slip away
like a leaf drops to a stream,
become one bit bobbing anonymous,
bumping against detritus in the flow.
 
though a few neighbors
note the absence of a single leaf,
the tree still stands.
 
the discovery
of what one is and needs,
the list so basic essential,
a blueprint
clear uncompromising as thin ice
for building concrete from abstraction –
freedom.

 

p ferenczi