#cornucopia
(Reflections after Thanksgiving)
All the things that happened
in the past, and the ones that
are about to happen,
all flowed out/all will flow
out of life's huge cornucopia:
good and bad harvests in food,
health, career, even relationships;
could be bitter, too little, too much
of sour, salt, spices, and of sugar
We make choices from what flows
out...some are promising, others turn
disastrous...some are happy with
just enough...there are those who
opt for a spill over their rims, and
get inebriated......or overdosed.
We've lived through poverty, wealth,
trials and tribulations, triumphs,
failures, birth and death, as well.
They say, a blending of spices, of
bad and good...of black and white,
of positive and negative energy,
brings out a certain balance...
angels, demons in human clothes
trying to claim each other...trying
to claim the populace....diseases
plague us...distorted minds distort
the true essence of democracy,
we end up conquered...or conqueror;
we may mellow down, or get worse.
Such a diverse horn of plenty!
Yet, we got free will and discernment,
so we may not be duped by lies
wrapped in bright white satin,
it's really up to us.
Also, it won't hurt to be grateful
more often...not only in November...
Sally
©Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
December 1, 2020
Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020 at 11:16 PM UTC
*
*Horn of plenty spills
Bread and wine sustains all man
She holds up the torch*
*
Aug 29, 2020
Aug 29, 2020 at 3:32 PM UTC
No butter, no cream, not even a can of evaporated milk
How to make Thanksgiving delicious?
Need it be?
a bounty
beauty abounds
eyes feasting on it
Horn of goat Amalthaea
pouring endless abundance
Of American pie
charmed decadence, never humble
Making it Great Again
for Black Friday comes
with all its leftovers
for some
Still, beauty to be found
by resources unbound
by what conventional terms deem buttery deliciousness
Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 9:02 AM UTC