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Best Thanksgiving Poems

Below are the all-time best Thanksgiving poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of thanksgiving poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Thanksgiving From Three Perspectives
A Child's Thanksgiving Prayer 

Lord, I thank thee as I sit to eat,
For mashed potatoes that I helped to make.
And thanks, dear Lord, we're having...

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Categories: family, funnymom, prayer, thanksgiving,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Thanksgiving Day Twenty-Twenty
Alas, hordes of ravenous relatives from very far and even near,

Won't be celebratin' at dear old Grandma's bountiful board this year,

Since the corona virus pandemic...

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Categories: humorous, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And I Am Grateful
A field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
I Must Carpe Diem
I used to live life full of dreams 
Planning, for many years to come.
Where I will be, when I will go,
A future that was filled...

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Categories: thanksgiving, death, family, feelings, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Shoreline
Watching sunrise, shoreline's ablaze
Love letter sent from Thee
I sing a psalm, an Easter palm
And start my day with glee.

Watching sunset, shoreline's agleam
A note Thou sent...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beauty, god, sea, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme



A Grateful Heart
From heaven's splendid throne above
You show the world abundant love.
For daily breath and length of days
Oh Lord, I bring you thanks and praise.

You fill my...

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Categories: god, heart, thanksgiving,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Worry Wart
Why sit and worry over things that seem to happen daily;
Little things that come and go that just annoy us really?
Why get angry over certain...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Power
April 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 23-25

*2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle:...

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Categories: thanksgiving, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Is Great
God is great,
     God is good;
     Let us thank Him for being here;
    ...

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Categories: thanksgiving, celebration, devotion, god, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member November
...carries the wilted weight of autumn
                   ...

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Categories: thanksgiving, autumn, celebration, earth, family,
Form: Free verse
Broken English
I love my broken English

Am in love with my broken English

Am honored to have two other languages

The ability to think from language to language is...

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Categories: thanksgiving, africa, appreciation, birth, blessing,
Form: Bio
I Think Back
When I think back...
 I see your eyes on me across the room,
 The way your lips slowly curve into a happy smile,
 Your strong...

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Categories: thanksgiving, for him, god, how
Form: Free verse
Spring Haiku
morning quiet time
in nature's warm bosom found
sun kissed flowers shine












12 March 2015
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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgiving, appreciation, flower, garden, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928


A Year Of Months (July-December)

8. July

July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great...

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Categories: earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Mirror of Time
I hold three magic rocks, in my hand. Rolling them over and over and over. Leaving this 
reality behind, far behind I stepped into the...

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Categories: thanksgiving, family, imagination, nostalgiaday, mom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things