Thanksgiving Nostalgia Poems

REMEMBERING WHO WE ARE

Spiralled rainbows ! 
burnished tapestries of trials
Birth, love, death ripen 
Winds of Change for our country’s call
Battles in a corner buried, we...

Read More

That small town Christmas spirit...
It grew a little brighter
just after Thanksgiving.

Garlands were wrapped around
every light pole lining the main street.
Multi-colored light strings
outlined every window.
The drug...

Read More

Bundled in a horse-drawn sleigh  
warm and snug on Thanksgiving Day
the children restless, we went on our way
as the shedding forest began to sway
and...

Read More

Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood...

Read More

I have been up and down the valley 
I have been honored and dishonored 
Good and bad times have been my lot
In my search for...

Read More

Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
    where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
  inside the gates of...

Read More

Reflection - The Fragrance of Grace

Mail order catalogs seem to have the ability to procreate in my mailbox.  Just when I think I have...

Read More

Searching deep within my gentle heart, I find
Endearing images that always come to mind
Nostalgic moments that sometimes make me cry
Tears of happiness from splendid days...

Read More

Someone once said, 

        "If opportunity doesn't knock, 
         build...

Read More

When I was a kid Christmas shopping was from a catalog.
Store shopping started after Thanksgiving in the sixties
In the seventies I was too poor to...

Read More

I waited for mid-November’s calm
that arrived last night,
a pause between storm systems
of Autumn wind and rain.

Today will be the day I recycle leaves,
a process much...

Read More

Thanksgiving Day has always been a special holiday 
A long tradition celebrated with family in a joyful way 
In my younger years we went to...

Read More

My mother's dishes are as delicate as she,
Tiny pink rose bouquets and silver rims.
Once I used them with her lace tablecloth,
For Thanksgiving and Christmas back...

Read More

Rocky Mountains

by Adrian Sutalo

North Park valley where
outdoor adventures await,
Great Lakes to Rocky Mountains 
journey, to seal a cervidae’s fate.

Roads past endless cornfields stretched toward the...

Read More

Life is a network
	Of true and faithful friends,
	In a mesh of uncertainties.
	Adding to the blend,
	Of complexities and realities 
	Searching for reasons and solutions
	To everyday problems.
	It's...

Read More