Be Thankful on Thanksgiving
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Count your blessings instead of your crosses.
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes.
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears.
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean.
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth.
Count on your God instead of yourself.
Looking for more great reads this Thanksgiving Day? Count your blessings right here at the MockingOwl Roost with a host of entertaining stories, essays, poems, and audio works.
- Feast Bouquet – Thanksgiving Poetry
- Gift Horse – Mythological Flash Fiction
- The Jewfish – A Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukkah Holiday Tale
- An RAF Childhood – Flash Fiction
- Alone in St. James’s Park – Creative Nonfiction
- Birth of a Dream – Narrative Poetry
- When Schizophrenia Came: A Remembrance – Personal Essay on Mental Illness
- Pangolin Love – an Essay About Coworkers, Pangolins, and Life
- Nothing More Than a Lesson – Poetry Reading
- Princess Piano Box Full of Teeth – Flash Fiction
- Ripe With Anxiousness – Nostalgic Flash Fiction
- Almost Paradise – Creative Garden Fiction
- Reach the Beach – Coming of Age Fiction
Mary Derringer
A seventy-eight-year-old nursing home resident, she enjoys writing poetry as well as children’s stories. She has a degree in children’s literature from the Institute of Children’s Literature. She has three poems scheduled for publication in the Neopoet Around the World anthology. New to poetry, she has been excited to feel the gratification that comes with having your words valued.
