Comments on: Sept 2 and 9- Prompt-Labor Day!

By: DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

DeAnna Quietwater Noriega — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:20:05 +0000

My birth
My mother was seventeen, when she strained to bring me into the world. The next day was Labor Day, but I got the date wrong. The doctor pulled me forth with forceps clamped around my hips. Backing into the world guaranteed I was fair of face like the poem promised Monday’s child. Born on the Sabbath day, I had more than a pretty face expected of me—fair, wise, good and gay, sheesh!

DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

By: Marlene Mesot

Marlene Mesot — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:27:24 +0000

Labor Day Thoughts

President Grover Cleveland signed S. 730 into law declaring Labor Day a national holiday.
Labor activists pushed to recognize contributions of American workers on this day.
In 1882 New York City held a Labor Day parade.
In early 1980s the Mesot family and two female mastiffs walked in a local Labor Day parade.

What else can I say,
About Labor Day?
It feels like summers end,
With fall just around the bend.

By: Abbie Taylor

Abbie Taylor — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:29:56 +0000

Labor Day falls on my brother’s 54th birthday. Since he lives in Jupiter, Florida, and I’m in Sheridan, Wyoming, of course, we can’t celebrate together. But I sent him a gift. Since he and his wife toured Maine in July, I thought they’d enjoy a collection of poems and pictures by Maine author Bette A. Stevens called My Maine: Haiku Through the Seasons.

By: Patricia Hubschman

Patricia Hubschman — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:07:52 +0000

Labor Day
By Trish Hubschman

Backyard barbecues.
Picnics in the park.,
Parties on the beach.
What are we celebrating?
The end of the summer,
Or the beginning of tomorrow?
A new school year is about to begin.
A new work schedule about to start.
It all begins with Labor Day,
The first Monday of the 9th month.
I always looked forward to it.
To me, it meant a fresh start.