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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
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
They organized a church bazaar,
To raise money for the poor.
A booth for selling chances
Was set up, outside the door.

When I bought the raffle ticket, 
My...

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Categories: thanksgiving, animals, food, funny, seasons,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL
This is a terrible time of year for Turkeys
How many innocent lives are going to be lost?
All their friends and relations are in for the...

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Categories: thanksgiving, america, celebration, food, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member First Thanksgiving Without Him
Autumn’s table set
          with one less placemat this year,
       ...

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Categories: thanksgiving, appreciation, family, father, grief,
Form: Tanka



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 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
Premium Member LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY POWER
Lord God, You are my Power against temptations of worldly reign
Thank You for being my Guide toward Your will, devoid of sinful strain
Surely, You’re my...

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Categories: thanksgiving, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
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
POEM OF THE DAY - 14 March 2015
TRADITONAL HAIKU- POETRY CONTEST : 6th Place
Sponsor:...

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© KP Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgiving, appreciation, flower, garden, introspection,
Form: Haiku
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
Premium Member THANK GOODNESS IT'S ONLY ONCE A YEAR
Turkey so dry that I can’t speak
Brussel sprouts boiled for a week
Roast potatoes burnt to a crisp
Lumpy gravy
I feel
Sick

Jan Allison
26th October
Inspired by Andrea’s contest but...

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Categories: food, humorous, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
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
Premium Member Some Thoughts For November
Another month of days has passed us by
We now prepare for cold November rains
For veterans our hearts will sadly sigh
With daylight savings time some sun...

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Categories: appreciation, blessing, thanksgiving, veterans
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member From My Cornucopia
The horn of plenty
on my grandparents’ table
as we sat feasting . . .
the thought of being apart
never entering our minds

though the years have fled
from my...

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Categories: thanksgiving day,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR EXPOSING MY ERROR
September 24 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 11-12

Key Verse– Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know...

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Categories: thanksgiving, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SECURED POSITION OF MINE
Since God already wrote my name in the Book of life permanently
I'm now granted precious inheritance absolutely

Receiving His blessings of great bounty
I must worship Him...

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Categories: thanksgiving, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
I'm thankful for that.
I know the value of a dollar.

Everything I have I've had to earn...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Wedding Anniversary
Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will...

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Categories: celebration, emotions, longing, thanksgiving,
Form: Alliteration