Many Thanks
By Linda Eve Diamond, Port Orange, FL
One of three Grand Prize Winners in the
31st Dancing Poetry Festival, 2024
Some where some one remembers you as a glimmer of light
for a small and significant kindness, encouragement, insight,
for caring to listen, for listening with care, for a timeless,
timely gift, offered with deeply needed warmth, clarity,
compassion, connection, humor, humanity, generosity…
and more than one but many people think of you this way
even if they don’t recall or maybe never knew your name
and they (or possibly we—as it may have been you that day)
send you thoughts of gratitude hoping, as if by magic,
you may breathe in this sparkling air of appreciation
feel the comfort you give wrapping back around you
and the magnitude of these so-called “small” gifts
you give so naturally on any given “ordinary” day.