Thanksgiving Holiday Poems

Applesauce Cake

Once again autumn’s jubilee of gold and umber leaves
Drifts on a lazy Sunday morning rain
Past kitchen windows
Where scents of coffee and frying bacon
Walk hand...

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Halloween - it starts
Thanksgiving eats, Christmas treats,
New Year's: Just. Say. No....

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After Glow

The pumpkin pie is steaming in the oven, 
just exactly right for the evening dessert. 
A sweet remembrance of all things...
that have happened since...

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Just another holiday coming round in the season
  as the weather changes warm to cold.
A chill upon the body cooling the spirits
  to...

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The holidays come round again,
 distant and far off at first, this trend,
 plenty of time to prepare, cards to send.

Hurried shopping travels
 eased by...

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The holiday has come and gone,
and now we’ve reached the time
for fall décor to pass away,
it yields to tinsels fine.

But all the pumpkins I put...

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One More

Ingredients are a funny thing. 
Timing is probably more important. 
But it is hard to say really. 

I cooked all day, but…
I wanted it...

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Mush-mellows and Cream

Sweet cream and butter, 
sugar, milk and eggs, 
the treat to eat, 
and no one knows, 
the secret. 

“Mush” is a funny plant,...

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The Forgotten holidays

Written or in this case typed…
correctly; “The” as it was at the beginning correct. 
“Forgotten” as it was naming not the action but...

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Christmas Princess

I picked you up early, 
we went to your friends. 
I watched as they all…
watched you. 
You laugh lightly, 
and bring joy in your...

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The Cat or the Mouse

Oh no…
Where’s the …? 
The kids are here, 
unexpectedly. 

Why don’t they call?
Give us a little warning. 
We can not party...

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I had a friend many years ago who always said Happy Thanksgiven.
We all smiled at her malapropism…and she was immediately forgiven.

Many years have passed and...

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he stood there
undressing her
gentle strokes
of his hands
atop her breast
sliding down
to her thighs
as he skillfully
spread her legs
to prepare her

his hands
carefully
guiding 
the way

he slowly
stuffed her
with all he...

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Merry Christmas!

I say it already. 
Ever since the President, 
put the Merry back,
in the step of America. 
Jesus is real…
Christ is Christmas!

Happy thoughts, 
Window trimmings…
Yes...

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Thanksgiving Day

Something about Thanksgiving
That makes living worthwhile
With gratefulness for home and family:
To see women bustling 
And cooking in the kitchen
While children outside are playing;
Suckles the...

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Ground Control

Let go. 
I can do this. 
I have been here in my dreams. 
I have prayed…
I have all that I need. 

I sit in...

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HOLIDAY GLADNESS

They each come just once a year
Bringing us joy and good cheer
Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
Chase the Winter Blues away
When Christmas carols we hear

19 November...

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Roasted turkey… honey-glazed; savory
Blends with sounds of thanksgiving victory
Midst colorful Christmas gifts
Peace offerings to mend rifts…
He wakes up blest* for holidays’ flurry.

*Deuteronomy 2:7 For the...

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Still ... I waited,
Turkey Day was over ...
Stars spattered the vault like silver paint
As I stood on the back deck
A dazzling, frigid, white world around...

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American Thanksgiving (1621)

Passengers in England boarded the Mayflower
To cross the Atlantic for the New World.
To escape religious persecution
For worshipping God as they saw fit
With separation...

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