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This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge.  The painting is by Bonnie White and is titled “Thanksgiving Day Visitors.”

COUNTRY CONVERGENCE

Here they all come in their canopied carriages,
including the products of two or three marriages.
Possessing 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 Day, 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