Thanksgiving Angst Poems

The fortunate ones know
How such a precious treasure
As your own newborn's 
First engaging sunshine smile
Making your own heart so warm you melt
And sings with so...

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Stunned
as soon as I sleep
awakened by a loud bang
real or imagined

Zapped
bright light woke me up
to lots of prayers, knee deep -
5 a.m. vigil
...

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There was a young turkey named Sam
Whose favorite food was sweet ham.
Though kept as a pet
He could not forget
Thanksgiving Day might be a scam!

Though liked...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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He closes out one more day
And writes down the tally mark
He puts all the toys away
And locks them all in against dark

Here is a family...

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Screams of doubt, sorrow
Clouds of unrest, anxiety, darkness
Torturing my soul, my dreams
Gone to a place, unknown
In the center of this horror

There were hallucinations
Illusions within the...

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dew sprinkles at dawn
start falling before the world
proves its sorrow strength



Written: November 17, 2021


Fall or Winter Holiday Haiku Poetry
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ASSAULT 
I feel the light assault my tender optics. 
I see the elections flow and ebb. 
The particles of reality assault my mind. 
Can you...

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Fear haunted me, taunted me, daunted me. I was not the overcomer, but the overcome. Fear played with me the way a kitten might toy...

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Dark as the sky who
Publishes stars
Reflecting the dance
Against a tangerine 
Moon, longing for
Dawn and truth

Dark as the circles
Underneath sunken eyes
Who only see
Insomnia’s gloom
Coloring the night
In...

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California’s hospitals are filling up, nurses getting sick
Thanksgiving has given us more than pumpkin pies 
Young and arrogant, young and unaware
Elderly desperate visiting old friends
Fearful...

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Give me Greenland, make it mine,
Let me buy it just in time,
For Thanksgiving so we can
Induct these folks into our clan.

Why waste time debating ‘why’
This...

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4:30am Thanksgiving 2003
I walk until my legs feel like quicksand
And I'll smoke myself a raincloud
And I'll talk myself dry
I'll read until my eyes are marble
Until...

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I'm thankful for the timing of my birth,
I have never seen a war or a plague.
And my perceptions of either; are vague,
though both have vexed...

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Vanessa was 
the college campus beauty queen
and she'd set 
her brown eyes on me
We were both 
captivated at first sight
two love birds 
as happy as...

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