Thursday, November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving


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-------------Gracias


Gracias y benditos sean
el Sol y la Tierra
por este pan y este vino,
-----esta fruta, esta carne, esta sal,
----------------este alimento;
gracias y bendiciones
a quienes lo preparan, lo sirven;
gracias y bendiciones
a quienes lo comparten
(y también a los ausentes y a los difuntos.)
Gracias y bendiciones a quienes lo traen
--------(que no les falte),
a quienes lo siembran y cultivan,
lo cosechan y lo recogen
-------(que no les falte);
gracias y bendiciones a los que trabajan
-------y bendiciones a los que no puedan;
que no les falte — su hambre
-----hace agrio el vino
-----------y le roba el gusto a la sal.
Gracias por el sustento y la fuerza
para nuestro bailar y nuestra labor
--------por la justicia y la paz.




---------------© Rafael Jesús González 2013



(The Montserrat Review, no. 6, primavera 2003
[postulado para el Premio de la Poesía por la Paz Hobblestock;
derechos reservados del autor.)






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Thanks and blessing be
to the Sun and the Earth
for this bread and this wine,
----this fruit, this meat, this salt,
---------------this food;
thanks be
and blessing to them
who prepare it, who serve it;
thanks
and blessing to them
who share it
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and also the absent and the dead.)
Thanks
and blessing to them who bring it
--------(may they not want),
to them who plant
and tend it,
harvest
and gather it
--------(may they not want);
thanks
and blessing to them who work
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and blessing to them who cannot;
may they not want — for their hunger
------sours the wine
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and robs the salt of its taste.
Thanks be for the sustenance
and strength
for our dance
and the work of justice, of peace.



-------------------------------------© Rafael Jesús González 2013



(The Montserrat Review, Issue 6, Spring 2003
[nominated for the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Award];
author’s copyrights.)




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2 comments:

Woodland Gnome said...
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Woodland Gnome said...

Thank you for this beautiful poem. A friend sent it to me in email last night after reading your blog post and mine yesterday. I've created a link from my blog to your poem because it speaks so perfectly to my heart. What a beautiful expression for this Thanksgiving Day. Blessings to you,

Woodland Gnome
http://forestgardenblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/appreciation/