#poem #blog #post #poet #writing #poetry #creative #catsofMastodon

https://blessedbymagpies.blogspot.com/2026/10/he-dreamt-of-snow.html

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cat on a box. looking to the right

we don't understand
enough to predict Climate,
just to ignore it

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Autumn Woods

Liquid light filters
through dying leaves, guiding me
along woodland paths;
wind stirs the trees, and spirits
seem to whisper, "Come back home."

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Lord! Save me for I am lost!
The darkness consumes and the mind has frost.
Lord! You promised us light.
For you, O Father, we all fight.
Father! Do not let yours go stray!
Shed on us even one bit light ray.
–Farooq, Master Patata

Another #poem coming out. Link on me weblog:
https://far.chickenkiller.com/poem/lord-save-me-for-i-am-lost/

#god #spirituality #lord #poetry #englishpoem #english_poem

Sitting in a darkened house
Quietly, like a mouse
No lights on, just a phone
But I am not alone

The predator creeps I do not know
Where it is, although
I'm sure it is watching me
And can see

Meow! Meow! Usually
But not with a stranger here, now
He will watch carefully
Just in case he needs to flee

#random #poem (human written)

Summer overstayed,
so Autumn dressed as Christmas,
a Halloween scare.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #climate #Christmas #Halloween #metaphor

Climate action lacks?
Historians won't agree.
There'll be none left to.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateAction #ClimateInaction #collapse #extinction #history #historians #KentsHistoryProject #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Author's notes to follow in a comment.

Pretty summer day,
What brings you to October?
Have you run away?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather

As the weather cools,
Climate's urgency feels less.
Too bad it isn't.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #collapse #extinction #fall #autumn #weather

from "Advice to a Lady in Autumn" by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1763

The poem has crisp autumn imagery, like this:

"At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year,
the sun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear:
But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time;
take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime."

But the whole poem is really a passive-aggressive rant that she (the Lady) shouldn't have rejected the author's romantic interest, as hinted in the last line above. Another example:

"At nine [a.m.] stretch your arms, and oh! think when alone, there's no pleasure in bed 😏
— 'MARY, bring me my gown.'
Slip on that ere you rise;
let your caution be such;
Keep all cold from your breast ...
there's already too much."

Okay, Phil, I admit that compared to some dudes, you express your disappointment in a healthy way. But there's no need to dwell on it. It's her loss! Move on, bro!

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5152-w0400.shtml

#poetry #poem #men #quote #quotes #emotionalintelligence

Maya lube fur ewe ease Splendorous Scottish Brogue

Eye assay sum sea lee wards fur ewe.
Doe yi Noe mine loaf ease shrew?
Date mine loaf fear ewe ease strewn,
Mare dawn hair cue lees ease bruin?

#poem #silly

"Boundaries matter."
Sound relationship advice.
Does Climate relate?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #TippingPoint #TippingPoints #Boundaries #ClimateTippingPoints #ClimateMetrics #collapse #extinction #ClimateScience

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/9-boundaries-keep-earth-livable-weve-breached-7-of-them/

@Aphelion

borrowed from Nothing
we, and Time itself, pretend
we were here at all

#haiku #senryu #physics #universe #CreationMyth #poem

excerpt from "To a Sad Daughter" by Michael Ondaatje
#fatherhood #poetry

One afternoon I stepped
into your room. You were sitting
at the desk where I now write this.
Forsythia outside the window
and sun spilled over you
like a thick yellow miracle
as if another planet
was coaxing you out of the house
— all those possible worlds! -
and you, meanwhile, busy with mathematics.

I cannot look at forsythia now
without loss, or joy for you.
You step delicately
into the wild world
and your real prize will be
the frantic search.
Want everything. If you break
break going out not in.
How you live your life I don't care
but I'll sell my arms for you,
hold your secrets for ever.

#poem #parenting #quote #quotes #canada

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Herbivore/117273762220102579

"Is climate urgent?"
We peer out at the weather.
Why not trust science?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #weather #ClimateDenial #ClimateUrgency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #TwoDegrees

New #blog post.

#poetry #poem #song

https://polydactica.neocities.org/posts/2026-09-19-Yore

I turned to speak to God
about the world's despair
but to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.

God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
at least not over half.

Robert Frost, 1926

#poem #poetry #religion #atheism #quote #quotes #quotation #robertfrost

This week's Climate thought
arrived before its deadline.
But will your response?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #LispyGopherClimate

Let's see... can I do this without backspace and delete, lol. #poetry #poem #typewriter

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A poem composed on a free typewriter How many words can words appear on a printed page? Way too many I fear In the computer age. And who bother penning their own rhyme If the computers Can do it in half the time It's too hard, I'm no good The youth they do exclaim The hard way is the right way That is what I explain.

Inside me are two wolves,
and they both wear black hats,
and a stochastic parrot,
a rabbit, and some cats.

#Poem #photo #selfie

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Photo of Ashwin Dixit, in a park, wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He is smiling, has a silver beard, and a curly mustache.

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Photo of Ashwin Dixit indoors. He is wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He has a silver beard and a curly mustache, and an intense expression.

Keyboard Lord

I am lord
of my keyboard.
A keyboard lord
is like a budget
radio Rambo.
Instead of
pulling the trigger
I toggle keys.
I take aim
with my mouse
and fire a missive.
Instead of cutting
with survival knife
I wound with words.
My grand hand
raps like a rooster
pecking the eyes out
of little letters;
pecking patches
of shadowy serifs.

#poem #poetry #PoetsOfMastodon

Climate here's just fine.
But please stock food stores better.
I can't grow all that.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #food #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #FoodSupply #GlobalWarming #heat #famine #drought

Collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli (IG: @bellaboopalombo - #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ). A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu #haiku

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In this collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli @bellaboopalombo ( #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ), boot prints are seen in beach sand, the imprint of what is likely a cane, accompanying. The prints proceed in one direction (from the bottom of the frame toward the top) and then seem to turn and head back the other way. The accompanying #haiku reads, turning heel too many footnotes on a love letter A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu

The title is taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - and he took it from The Tempest by Shakespeare …

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”

(From The Waste Land)

#shakespeare #TSEliot #thewasteland #poetry #poem

summer heat eases,
as does my resolve for change,
'til too late next year

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateInaction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateUrgency

RE: https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/117118934543733728

Climate storms our gates.
We could mount a real response,
but let's close the blinds.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial

For more contextual info, see my comment attached to https://climatejustice.social/@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com/117118934574693534

Creepy stalkers wear our glasses
Go around looking at women's a***
Tracking everything that you've bought
Sell that data, fund my yacht
Nothing I ever do would be opt in
Asking permission it's a sin
Billionaires just take and take
What they want, too bad mate
But alas what is worse
Are all the billionaire fans, they're a curse

#poem (human written)

#poetry #poem #amwriting #books #poets #writing

Unbearable heat!
Yet lesser heat sustains us
and our denial.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #denial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Poem for the occasional (composed by me)

Forty cats were sailing the seven seas
The wind was fierce, so were the fleas
Wandering around on a sailboat then
Who know where they set sail from or when

Drifted into Tacoma one day
Someone called the police they say
For hungry mewing and meowing you could hear
From the beach and the shore very near

Alas the kitties and kittens were rescued by boat
The sailboat at least it continued to float
The cats had to abandon their around the world sail
For their venture, it appears, was destined to fail

#poem (human written) #cats #newspoem

Sleep

May the night embrace
the wonder of the starlight;
vast, untold æons;
the infinity of dreams;
and all of our grief or joy.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Crops quietly fail.
No Climate red line, I see.
On to famine then.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #heat #crops #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity
#denial #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction

Humid

This summer air clings
to my skin, with the softness
of a silken sheet

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

FSD zombie,
In the next lane
No one is steering
Where is your brain?

Hands on the wheel
But eyes on a screen
Not watching the road
Drooling running out in a stream

Suddenly your car veers
Into a tree
Goodbye
FSD zombie

#poem (human composed)

perhaps heat and drought
will, by magic, not touch me,
just cook my children

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #water #h2o #drought #droughts #heat #famine #food #FoodSupply #crops #CropFailure #collapse #extinction

https://mastodon.online/@IngridHbn/116974462883858706

Hush, Climate Science.
Tell better researched stories.
Like those Big Oil tells.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #narrative #stories #StoryTelling #statistics #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimateScience #science

https://veganism.social/@Dragofix/116961289450079689

eat, drink, sleep, cuddle
sometimes I wish
I was my cat

My ink drawing of this cute kitty is also available combined with this lovely haiku.

Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #ink #drawing #handmade #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #catstodon #kitten #kitty #kittens #katze #CatsOfFediverse #BuyIntoArt #ArtForSale #giftideas

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eat, drink, sleep, cuddle sometimes I wish I was my cat Sweet dreams is a minimalist black and white ink drawing by artist Karen Kaspar. A cute kitten lies sleeping on the floor. It seems to be smiling and having sweet dreams. This work, a combination of painting and haiku, is a joint project by Karen Kaspar (© art and artwork) and Marjolein Rotsteeg (© Haiku). A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form consisting of three lines. Here the ink drawing was supplemented with the haiku in English

wildfire haze clouds thought.
when it lets up, let's fix this.
what if it doesn't?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #wildfires #smoke #haze #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDelay #ClimateDenial #extinction

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A view of a bleak, hazy, white-orange sky with a sun that is muted and has a visible corona, scattered by the haze. Hills are barely visible as outlines in the distance. In the foreground, a flag flies at half staff, presumably for an unrelated reason, and yet it contributes visually to a sense of foreboding or mourning in the scene.

“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/

#ai #Poetry #Poem

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PLEASE USE AI Please use AI when your mother dies. Ask it what grief feels like. Let it explain bereavement in twelve clear bullet points. Do not spend years finding her in the supermarket by the tomatoes she always bought, in the smell of rain on warm pavement, discovering new ways to miss her.

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Please use AI the next time you fall in love. Ask it how to know whether someone is the one. It will give you a faster answer than watching a person become familiar, learning how they take their tea, which floorboards will wake them, how their silence sounds when something is wrong.

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And please use AI for your wedding vows, your eulogies, your apologies. Why struggle for the right words when a machine can give you beautiful ones? Words untouched by shaking hands. Words that have never sat beside a hospital bed. Words that have never known the terrible privilege of having something to lose.

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Meanwhile I will be over here watching someone I love fall asleep on the sofa, the television talking to itself, rain tapping the windows, the dog twitching in her dreams, wasting my life on these small unremarkable moments that become, without asking permission, the whole thing.

RE: https://bne.social/@travis_nice/116915720209889228

You seek Climate proof?
If such spiky graph's aren't it,
maybe a flatline?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #extinction #ElNiño #ElNino #heat #OceanWarming #RecordHeat #RecordTemperatures

Poem for the occasion of INTERSTELLAR SUGAR DUST

Interstellar sugar dust
Send me by rocket, if you must
Need to lick up the sweetness of space
I hear of raspberries it does taste
If you can fly around oh my
That sweetness lurking in the sky

#poem (human composed, mine)
#space

Hot days steal focus.
I crave time for OTHER things,
NOT climate change talk!

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDelay #ClimateDenial #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #ClimatePsychology

Estate

Ghosts of the past, seen
in remnants of stone and light,
revealed by the sun.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

I'm no patriot, won't fly no flag
You've taken that away, and it's a drag
Used to proudly fly the Red White and Blue
til they told me, buddy, it's not for you

People gave their life, but not for a king
But you've gone and changed it, that's the thing
It's a country for brown, black, yellow, white and red
Any color of skin, that's what they said

But now they're telling us you don't belong here
Just a country for white Christian racists, I fear
So I'll keep the flag folded, in a drawer in the den
Til someday maybe, it will come out again

#poem (human)
#uspol

arctic thirty-eight?
well, at least not three eighty.
THEN we'd have to care.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #Arctic #heat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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A summary from a DuckDuckGo search result that shows an article by the World Meteorological Organization with the headline "WMO recognizes new Arctic temperature record of 380C". The one-line summary of the article beneath it makes it clear this headline has a typo, since it says "A temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Russian town of Verkhoyank on 20 June 2020 has been recognized as a new Arctic temperature record by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)."

RE: https://urbanists.social/@docdieterlen/116845003201491823

formerly dot gov
it's up to "us" now, lest we
form early gravestones

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #Science #ClimateDenial #USPolitics

Can you tell this voice is AI? It sounds very human to me.

Free tool used to generate audio: #Omnivoice on #Linux

This is the reading of Part II to the poem:
Muspilli

meaning "World's End"

(from the year 870 AD, originally written in Old German by anonymous)

Old High German is no longer used today in normal communications, but #AI could still translate it.

http://john1126.com/537

#German #OldGerman #poetry #poem #AIaudio #TextToSpeech #prophecy

@wtrmt @VATVSLPR @AndrewHenry

The siren sounds of duct tape
Luring people in
Make them want to wrap stuff up
Leading to a life of sin

Strapping stuff together
With cloth, plastic, glue
It's all fine and dandy
You can even fix your shoe

It all seems to be working
No need for bolts or screws
Til you have a sudden failure
And your shoes you lose

Now I hear you can duct tape
Your broken bumper now
Still one day in the future
It'll still fall off, POW!

Their seductive rolls beckon
Fix everything thing with me
Alas another year in the sun
And it's broken again, see!

#poem (human written!)
#ducttape

Heat records shattered,
but fortunately not here.
We can still pretend.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/25/europe-heatwave-uk-italy-france-record-temperature-latest-news-updates

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #Heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #RecordHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #collapse #extinction

unlike ostriches,
we DO hide our heads in sand,
baking hopes and dreams.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-silence-on-climate-change-is-totally-unacceptable

(About the ostrich myth, see https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/ostriches-really-bury-heads-sand)

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimatePolitics #ClimateSilence #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ostriches

#poem #ceative ##poet #writing #post ##blog #poems #poetry

https://blessedbymagpies.blogspot.com/2026/06/eventually-it-sank-in.html

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lino cut of man on a beach, bottom half circles - rockpools, top quarter dark sky with full moon, middle quarter horizontal lines of the sea

#train #poem #creative #post #writing #blog #poets #poetry

https://blessedbymagpies.blogspot.com/2026/06/practice-what-it-preaches.html

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alien world painted on za set of large industrial metal doors leafless tress, moon big in the sky

#memory #poem #poetry creative blog #writing #post #poets #poems #poet

https://blessedbymagpies.blogspot.com/2026/06/rubber-banded.html

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rocking horse fills about half the photo leaded glass panes of glass behind the back feet of the horse, fy=urnitire by the head- photo taken in a shop

Heat

In stillness, the night
offers no breath of comfort
through open windows.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

proud, we sacrifice,
wanting the best for our kids.
such climate fiction.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateFiction

#creative #poem #writing #poets #blog #poems #post #poetry

https://blessedbymagpies.blogspot.com/2026/06/can-you-keep-grip.html

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stair well, looking down through several floors

RE: https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116753774676038889

This news is days old.
News or not, Climate matters.
New's the wrong question.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateNews #news

Aw give me a home
where the fat aphids roam
and naive slow crickets will play...

Were seldom is left
a bad pheromone path
and the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home in the branch
where naive slow crickets will play!
Well catch em all fast
cricket legs for breakfast
and the skies are not cloudy all day

#ants #songs #poem

(drawing from:https://www.etsy.com/listing/1188122763/cute-red-ant-stickers-planner-stickers?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ant+stickers&ref=sr_gallery-1-23&sca=1&organic_search_click=1)

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A black and white line drawing of an ant with a lil cowgirl hat and a neck bandana riding an aphid.

I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,

My friends forsake me like a memory lost;

I am the self-consumer of my woes....

John Clare, c1845

#alienation #depression #quote #quotes #quotation #poetry #poem #uk

As Climate ratchets,
skeptics scoff, still asking proof.
Cartoon Physics shield.

When none remain to agree,
will that be finally Proof?

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #denial #CartoonPhysics #physics #extinction

What if, says a small child to me this afternoon,
We made a poem without using any words at all?

[.....]

https://www.christiancentury.org/artsculture/poems/best-poem-ever

#poem #poetry #poets #poems

my lifetime spent on
a painful pilgrimage to
the next place to sit

#dailyhaikuprompt - pilgrimage
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#writing
#writingcommunity

From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?

Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?

Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.

They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.

~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024

It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

sources

https://freeross.org/uncageable/

https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

#RossUlbricht #DreadPirateRoberts #SilkRoad #USCourts #CriminalJustice #Prisons #Prisoners #Poetry #News #Crypto #Poem #FreeRoss

@poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.