Thanksgiving Poems

Popular Thanksgiving Poems

Thanksgiving

by Michael Reid

On this day like none other
I think of my mom, my son and brother
And all that I am thankful for
All the times that have come before
I'm thankful for all the love I've been shown
I'm thankful for all the good friends I've known
Life has not always been kind to me
But it has built me into this man you see
I want to live and help people more
And maybe give someone something else to be thankful for

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I Went Hungry on Thanksgiving

by Jack Prelutsky

I was hungry on Thanksgiving
But I couldn't eat a thing
I couldn't eat a drumstick
And I couldn't eat a wing
I couldn't have the pickles
Or the gravy covered rice
The pumpkin pie was luscious
But I couldn't have a slice
I was starving for some stuffing
Or a tasty yellow yam

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Thanksgiving

by Thornton Burgess

Thanksgiving comes but once a year,
But when it comes it brings good cheer.
For in my storehouse on this day
Are piles of good things hid away.
Each day I've worked from early morn
To gather acorns, nuts, and corn,
Till now I've plenty and to spare
Without a worry or a care.
So light of heart the whole day long,
I'll sing a glad Thanksgiving song.

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Thanksgiving

by Marchette Chute

I'm glad that I was good today
As good as I was able
I'm glad to be inside this house
And sitting at this table

I'm glad that it's Thanksgiving Day
And all the world is merry
And I'm glad I have a fork
And that the pie is cherry.

24/11/2022

by Marra Makinen

Nobody owes me anything
In this great big place
We call Earth
Not a single person
Owes me a thing

I'm not nihilistic
But sometimes I find myself feeling
Like the lives we bear
Don't have much meaning at all-

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Recent Thanksgiving Poems

Thanksgiving

by Michael Reid

24/11/2022

by Marra Makinen

Thankfully Blessed Again

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Absolutely blessed, Christ delivers everything,
fervent gratefulness, habitually induced, joyous
knowledgeable love, magenta nebulous omnipresence,
prayer, quietude, reflection, sacred Thanksgiving,
undying veneration, with xenismos yearly zest!

Hues of Thanksgiving

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

colored leaves fall down
inside food warmth and laughter
a pause for prayer
it's time squirrels cached walnuts
it's autumn's pretty party

Ode to a Vengeful God

by Samuel Cody

The cool breeze gently winnowed fields of grain, as dusk crept upon the earth.
And in the wake of that timorous gale, a foggy rime was set; in all its churning meandering girth.
The skittering scratching cry of flint harshly put to steel,
Harmonized with the squeaking pedal of a grinding wheel.
This somber dirge was all that whispered upon that fateful gale.
The ominous warning now was sung.

And not a word was uttered by the restless gaggle.
Not a screech or squawk; neither cluck nor cackle.
Priests consoled their acolytes, and mothers comforted their children.

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