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Best Thanksgivings Poems

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Premium Member Lonely Thanksgivings
A Broken Heart Cries
42 Thanksgiving Days
I Love YOU; LENORE

Author's note : Inspired by the Contest ; " NOT SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS "
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Categories: thanksgivings, holiday, lost love, wife,
Form: Senryu



-farewell My Beautiful Being-
to all who know and love,
      and who may not know at all,
i have told tales of adoring loss
and romance...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgivings, appreciation, goodbye, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Having Enough-Remembering Thanksgiving
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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Categories: thanksgivings, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn
Apples, red and ripened, lie scattered all around

Under trees where orange leaves are brightening the ground.

Treats meant for my children somehow end up in my...

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Categories: thanksgivings, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
Two Spare Tires

Holidays can put a lot of miles
on the gastronomical tread ...
That last slice of cake
will have you wobbling to bed
So you better hope you’re at...

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Categories: thanksgivings, food, funny, holiday, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War
You can feel it spinning
                    ...

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Categories: thanksgivings, culture, environment, farm, future,
Form: Verse
Me Without You
Me without you is a motionless sail boat,
A kid being out doors in the winter without a coat.
A basketball star without ever having any coach.
Can...

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Categories: thanksgivings, adventure, childhood, friendship, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Same Ol' Song and Dance
As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and...

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Categories: thanksgivings, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Giving Up
We hired the neighbor kid
to put it all on eBay. He started
with the train-set you bought me on a whim, 
Santa Fe, like the locomotive...

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Categories: thanksgivings, life, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thanksgiving's Substance
“Thanksgiving’s Substance” (Internal rhyme)
 
T-hanks my soul for everlasting life, I am freed from mind’s strife,
H-eavenly Godly material, Love’s faith ethereal,
A-ngels  appear as human...

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Categories: thanksgivings, inspirationalthanksgiving, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Voice of Appreciation
My dearest troubled humans,

This is the bitter voice of Appreciation of old that

You are hearing

The one that, once upon a time, people much revered

But

The younger...

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Categories: thanksgivings, appreciation, humanity, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Waiting
There you are
face to face with me on Skype
thousands of miles away.
A grown man, but still my son,
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army;
Iraq War, February 2004...
You are...

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Categories: thanksgivings, soldier, son, war,
Form: Free verse
A Short Indian Tale
A Short Indian Tale

I look out of my window
As my leaves blow across the lawn
Some go into my neighbors yard
I laugh, lean back and yawn.

We...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thanksgivings, boy, child, fantasy, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Waiting
(For Contest: Foreign War)

There you are...face to face with me...on Skype...
thousands of miles away.  A soldier, but still my son;
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Iraq...

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Categories: thanksgivings, heartbreak, repetition, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Endless Gratitude
Praying to nature

Beauty thanksgivings offers
 
Endless gratitude! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    13 February 2017


5-7-5...

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Categories: thanksgivings, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things