Best Thanksgiving Day Poems

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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Today, dear Lord, we gather here
In fellowship and love,
Mindful of the wondrous gifts
That come from thee, above.

For this feast, we thank thee, Lord
For health, that...

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Around the grown up table bowed in prayer
Familiar faces etched upon my mind
Back then, I never thought the love we shared
Would be so rare, to...

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(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
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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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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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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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An oddly-shaped Thanksgiving bird:
   quirky 
   turkey

What we call Grandma's mashed potatoes:
   dreamy 
   creamy

How she adds...

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I had a friend with a unique way of looking at the world
(although I once thought she was misled)
because when the rest of us said...

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I awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced...

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Time to foster your relations
With thanksgiving celebrations.
With family reminisce past,
All our love now remembering
Come together watch our hearts sing.
Nothing earthly will ever last,
Time to foster...

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Today it is Thanksgiving Day
For all dead turkey’s I do pray
That you had a good life
Now you’re carved with a knife
Served on a plate as...

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Thanksgiving Every Day

Every day’s Thanksgiving while I am on this earth,
living life with gratitude for all its grace and worth.

Every day’s Thanksgiving while I have...

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 Soon the leaves will begin to leave their homes, 
 like floating portraits from the autumn sky. 
Lovely random colors the wind has blown,...

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In late November every year
   there is a time we celebrate.
These days of bounty we revere;
   with family and friends relate.

There...

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Fall 
will start
It is near
Is in the air
Now

Say 
Good-bye
To summer
Hot weather is 
Gone

Air 
Crispy
Starts to cool
No more burning 
Sun

Birds
Migrate
Butterfly
Will return next
Year

Trees
Change garb
Leaves transform
From golden to
Brown

Day...

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