Thank You for Naming Yours After Our Own

November 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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A thank you poem for naming someone after a deceased loved one:

Thank you for naming yours after our own,
Holding a bit of his being in place.
A name is a mask for a sojourning soul,
Nothingness left with a word for a face,
Knight of the night seeking honor alone.

Your kindness has given his memory a trace
Of the living, that he might by name still be known,
Undoing the darkness that death would make whole.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/than28.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.hmtl .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done
November 24: Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed
November 25: There Is No Gift More Precious than One’s Health
November 26: Thank You for Having Faith in Me
November 27: To Me Your Life Has Been an Inspiration
November 28: Please Accept My Gratitude
November 29: Thank You for Naming Yours After Our Own