Thanksgiving Day Visitors @ Simple Sunday
Hello Poets and Pals once again to our
Sunday fun with Poetry!
With the Thanksgiving Day Holiday fast approaching,
The artist we share today brings a special warmth
For your poetry…
Let me introduce you to
Bonnie White
Bonnie’s family moved from Long Island
to Canaan N.Y. in the winter of 1973.
There, they purchased a 75 acre farm and ran
a hunter – jumper barn called Spring Gait Farm
for more than 25 years. Although Bonnie’s first love
was horses, she always had an interest in art.
When she wasn’t riding horses, she was sketching them.
Bonnie’s paintings can be seen at juried craft shows,
and galleries as well as on calendars, jigsaw puzzles,
greeting cards and Christmas ornaments. For the past
four years, she has been selected by “Early American Life’s”
magazine for their Directory of Traditional Crafts
or their Holiday Directory.
In 2007 Bonnie was chosen to design an ornament
for the Blue Room Christmas tree.
It remains in the White House’s permanent collection.
To learn about Bonnie White and view more of her art
Please visit the link below.
http://www.nextdayart.com/about_the_artists/bonnie_white
You might recognize her work as a calender or card or jigsaw
puzzle you may already own.
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Today’s Features art
By Bonnie White is
“Thanksgiving Day Visitors”
Please use only this art piece
for your poem inspiration.
We hope the spirit of
the art sparks your muse!
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And we’ll even add a bit of music
to help create the mood!
Enjoy!
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I thank you for visiting and sharing with us here for
Simple Sunday!
Please leave us your Heart and comments!
Let us know if you Liked today’s art!
I’m looking forward to our time again
for sharing next week!
One Summer Dream
~Cynthia~
:love: :love: Well we’re getting close to the wire with the Holidays coming up soon here in the States. I’ve been swamped getting my home ready for family and friends that will be celebrating Thanksgiving at my house this year. So what better theme then to choose art that reflects some of that excitement. I hope this sparks your muse and poetry!
Cynthia.
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“Thanksgiving Day Visitors”
By Bonnie White
THANKSGIVING MENUS
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Mixin and fixin
That favorite family recipe
Gonna plan and serve a fabulous meal
Turkey be bakin in the oven
Bake sweet pototoe smell so good
People be comin
And goin
In and out
Kitchen be full
Some at the door knockin
There be family
And friends
Gonna have a big meal
On this day of thanksgiving
Mom cookin over the hot stove all day
Cakes and pies
Dressin needs fixin
Mead those biscuits and cornbread
Onion pepper and spices
Some body
Please stir that pot
Green bean need poppin
Gonna have cram berries delight
Pumpkin pie
Ham
And chicken
Mash potatoes
And a big bucket of ice tea
Collar green yellow squash and corn
Gribble gravy on the side
Now raise you glass
And give thanks to the cook
Now say the prayers and let eat and enjoy this thanksgiving meal
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————- © November 17 , 2o12
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Many blessings to you and yours this Holiday Season dear friends…… Cherie
Thanks for sharing your beautiful and inspiring artwork, Bonnie White and thank you, One Summer Dream for hosting and bringing very informative and fabulous art for us to write to. I love this piece of art! 🙂
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Thanksgiving Past
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The smell of grandma’s pumpkin pie
And all the family stopping by
For a thanksgiving feast to share
Home cooked goodness that she’d prepare
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The good ole’ days of Thanksgiving past
Playing with cousins was a blast
Many years ago that went so fast
But fond memories will always last
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Michelle R King
11-18-12
Inspired by artwork of Bonnie White
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :love:
Absolutely precious artwork to ponder. Thank you for this as I will and return later on. Happy Thanksgiving to all! :love: :love: :love:
Wonderful blog and pieces posted! Busy weekend for me, but will try to get back later. We had our Thanksgiving last month in Canada, but every day is a day to be grateful! 🙂 :love: :love: :love:
People I haven’t seen in along time will becoming home for thanksgiving.
It will be great to see their faces.
All of them going to different places.
Thanksgiving means a lot to my mom .
So all my family will becoming this way to have a turkey dinner.
There will be three babies here .
They make time special for all of us.
They bring back are youth.
And helps us to see the truth.
I have a big family .
Two sister and a brother .
All with kids .
There will be about thirty people here on that day.
I can’t wait for the games we play.
Thanksgiving is a time for getting loved ones together.
It’s a time to be thankful for all I’ve been given.
It’s a great big meal I love to eat.
And it’s a great time for some new to meet.
Holidays bring everybody together.
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I wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving holiday and everyday!
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A Certain Sort Of Homecoming
With the sunset and candles lit
Amongst the air of autumn
We gather round the table
To remember, lest it be forgotten
From the rosy cheeks of our children
To portraits of those no longer living
We hold hands and say a blessing
And feast for all’s forgiven
As you and I steal a touch
And the memories flood back in
With warmth we smile ever so much
And journey that road again
For this is our rejoicing
In love, laughter, and light
A certain kind of homecoming
A family’s reunion tonight
A blessing of the moment
A blessing for all time
A certain kind of homecoming
Giving Thanks For Peace Tonight
~Cynthia Bowman, November 2012~
Thanksgiving Memories
The Grandma Moses memories of the past –
the loving combinations didn’t last,
of family around the holidays
with time’s attritions, each went their ways.
Can you see Mom and Grandma weighing the merits
of how to season peas and carrots ?
And aunts and uncles praising the bird,
from their lips no longer we hear the word.
Warm recollections reside in my mind.
When you are youthful, life is kind.
Oblivious to its course we quickly would find
the realities to which we are by nature confined.
Now we are keepers of memories,
and we are responsible for carrots and peas.
We are the old guard and we hold the keys
to the love that is shared in these ceremonies.
Tony Hansen
(c) 11-18-12
EVER THANKFUL
As together we arrive
at Thanksgiving’s door
bearing gifts and treasures,
our daily blessings to share,
we’re thankful for the beauty
and harvest we’ve reaped,
rejoicing and joining in
upon this festive day
to celebrate good tidings
and opportunities to be glad.
And with the arrival
of each honored guest,
we give thanks for the abundance
of the simple gifts shared,
of love,
of friendship,
of what matters the most,
what resides so deep
within our hearts,
family and friends
gathered together
and blessed with
one more year to share.
(c) barbara kausteklis 11-18-12
Been a little under the weather and behind Had to write a little one for such a beautiful piece of art shared with Thanksgiving Visitors :love: :love: :love: :love:
Thanksgiving Dinner
Waiting on visitors
Those Thanksgiving guests
With kitchen a mess
Need to get clean and ready to be blessed
Thanksgiving dinner blessed with the best
Friends and family even travel from west
Know will enjoy dinner and a good night`s rest
All such wonderful writes…wishing you all a Blessed Thanksgiving! Here is a quick little one…been busy preparing for our Seniors’ Xmas party that we host each year and I am in charge of organizing it again this year…it is next Sunday…our way of showing gratitude for all that they have done for the community in their younger years! 🙂 :love: :love: :love:
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Thanksgiving is a time to recount
Our blessings throughout the year
Family and friends gather around
From far away and near.
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A feast is made to celebrate
As we give thanks for another year
Grateful for the time we share
To all whom we love so dear.
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When the day has ended
The memories we will treasure
Grateful that we have each other
A thanksgiving of great pleasure.
COUNTRY CONVERGENCE
Here they all come in their canopied carriages,
including the products of two or three marriages.
Possessing sweet virtues which no one disparages.
So many divergent talents and heritages.
Oh little town of West-Stow-on-the-Beecham,
how still we see thee tell and live the truth,
where free self-reliance is what they teach ’em.
Belief will stay strong when they’re long in the tooth.
A horse is a horse of course of course,
and no one can talk to a horse of course,
except little Cindy Lou Who in the yard.
A real phenomenon in which she has starred.
Further up yonder lives the Fool on the Hill,
who employs some unknown but lucrative skill.
No one has seen him in months, even years,
but this Thanksgiving, he will come, bearing beers.
This is the time when both nobles and bumpkins
are all of them up to their pippicks in pumpkins.
Bundles of cornstalks stand dried by Fall wind,
decorate beigely while centrally pinned.
Here are West Stow folk enjoying Thanksgiving,
gathered together to celebrate living.
Bit of perfection ‘ere winter arrives.
Love’s intersection where affection thrives.
Copyright November 18th 2012 RGD
Inspired by “Thanksgiving Day Visitors” by Bonnie White