[Critique Group 2] My Submission for November 29th Critique Session

[Abbie Taylor]

I'm pasting and attaching this poem I wrote last week during my third 
Thursday poets meeting.

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THANKSGIVING REFLECTION



In the good old days, we gathered at the table:
parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins,
sometimes said grace, sometimes didn't.

Dad, Granddad, or some other male carved the turkey,
sometimes with an electric knife, sometimes not.

Platters of food were passed around:
turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, yams,
vegetables, rolls, cranberry sauce.
Sometimes children sat at a separate table.
Most of the time, we all ate together
like the big happy family we were.

After we filled our bellies, pumpkin pie was served.
When we’d eaten as much of that as we could,
men retreated to a football game on TV
while women cleaned up.
Children played or got into mischief.

Now, with parents and grandparents gone,
uncles, aunts, cousins scattered across the country,
I eat my Thanksgiving meal
at the local senior center, then go home,
read a good book, wish for the way things were.

-- 
Abbie Johnson Taylor, Author http://abbiescorner.wordpress.com
http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com
abbie at mysero.net
Order my new memoir at http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com/memoir.htm
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