I'm sitting at the table
just writing thank you notes
on every Facebook post
including the ones that come
through the inbox
and answering the phone
and text messages
technology has a way of amplifying
love; people who would just think about it
in days past, now reach out and text
or post or touch--the voices I heard today
were hot chocolate delicious
I feel so loved in this moment
by family friends children I gave birth to
some I didn't but all cherished
Didn't want to do the generic
"thanks to everyone who remembered me"
post the next day; wanted to acknowledge
them as they rolled in and I sit at
the computer most of the day, or on my
phone, checking them off with
gratitude
is this a poem? I doubt it
but it is joy
and thankfulness
which are great ingredients
for poetic flow
© Valerie Bridgeman
January 15, 2013
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