feast

Love After Love  

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 

 -Derek Walcott

If there is an image that shines a light on the feast of your life, share the bounty with us today.

Comments

[Marcie]

What a wonderful poem....
This image - I think - is a metaphor for the 'feast that is my life':
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=6024

[ELK]

memories serve as "feast" all year.... here's to making some this day:
http://www.redorgray.com/

[jag]

I love that poem... it keeps popping up in my Life! Thanks for reminding us to feast on our own Life.

I just created this image yesterday - my first attempt at a collage! It shares one of my most important practices: taking extended time to sit in Silence & Solitude as a way to connect with the Source of the Feast of my Life, as I understand it to be. Truly an exercise in Gratitude...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jagspace/3061996055/

xox

[Jen - Beebee Mod]

Yes, today is always a great day no matter what.
http://americana.visualblogging.com/index.html

[Amy]

Such a beautiful poem....I love the meaning of it...Happy Thanksgiving to all*
http://apta.squarespace.com/

[kosenrufu mama]

i love those words, a wonderful poem, here i try to show my feast meaning, that's in everyday moments...

http://esterdaphne.blogspot.com/2008/11/cena-tra-amici.html

[camerashymomma]

oh tracey. i've been avoiding this holiday like the plague. but this poem. this just cracked me right open. this is wonderful, thank you so much for sharing it today of all days.

happy thanksgiving to all the american sisters.
and happy november day to all those around the world.
xo
meredith

[Steph Wiese]

"the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life."

I am feasting!! Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for finding shutter sisters this year!

http://stephwiese.squarespace.com/

[Terri]

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours

[Julie Alvarez]

I am welcoming the me that smiles big with blurry love.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/3064129890/

[Kristin]

Cool pic. And Happy Thanksgiving. I also love the poem.

[Courtney]

LOVE the poem. Happy Thanksgiving!!

[Karen Cage]

Awesome poem. Thanks for sharing, Tracey! Wishing you and the rest of the Clark gang a wonderful, joy-filled Thanksgiving! xoxo

[Jodyangel]

Family. The greatest blessing of all. Hope you all had a wonderful dinner today. I'm about to POP now lol.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodyangel/3064804290/

[mary]

The "feast of my life," these days, seems to be meeting every day with a camera in hand. Here is a sampling of work:

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-with-pictures.html

Happy Thanksgiving!

[gardenymph]

The chain of generations that have come before me, and that will come after me, makes me who I am today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenymph/3064639748/in/photostream/

Have a wonderful day, everyone.

[Angie]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29143067@N04/2722025246/

I always hope for more and dream bigger

[Toni]

Here's mine:
http://dailyvignette.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/beauty-in-a-drop-of-water/

[chris]

This couldn't have come at a more perfect time. Your post echoed all that I'm feeling on this Thanksgiving day.
http://jeroldssis.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/giving-thanks-and-loving-lucy/

[burningwindmill]

The picture, the poem- Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.

[~ kristina ~]

Parade of life yesterday, lots of colorful floats and colorful people watching!
http://meadowlarkdays.blogspot.com/2008/11/parade-of-life.html

[Liz]

what a beautiful poem--i saved it for probable inclusion on my national poetry month emails next april. i don't have a picture of them downloaded, but without a doubt the richness in my feast this week is friends.

[jen lemen]

i love this post and this poem, so much, tracey.

[littlepurplecow (Stephanie Roberts)]

Love this image. Rich with life.

[Patricia Dolan]

To Thine Own Self Be True....Shakespeare would love this poem and I love that I will look in the mirror today and greet the girl that grins back a me with a smile from the heart...today I will feast upon life from the banquet table of bounty

Trish
patriciadolan@comcast.net