Thank You Turkey Poems

Thank you, our noble turkey
Unselfishly nourishing
Reveling above tofurkey
Keening song full flourishing
Elevating meager meal
Yielding leftover appeal...

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Peter was able to see some of the ant-like Macy's Thanksgiving parade by leaning suicidally over the 50th floor balcony. I go into fight-or-flight panic...

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Greetings, fellow poets, on this day of Thanksgiving, whether or not you celebrate the American holiday.  I want you to know I appreciate the...

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Thank you for tender flesh so sweet
Uniquely known for your dark meat
Risen to fame as a rare treat
Known as sticks that are fun to eat...

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Super Turkey with his super gobbling vision and walking sticks,
Asked how he could help fix the crumbling skyscrapers in apocalypse
Good right now, the armed soldier...

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Song of the Harvest Home

Under contented twilight memories, my childhood harvest home abides in chrysanthemum hues
Two story home on a quiet street behind a fence...

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Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s...

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A wandering duck met a male turkey
at Plymouth Harbor in late October,
the exact spot where the Pilgrims landed,
and reflecting on the lost freedom of turkeys,
"...

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Gobbling turkey is baking really nice
This is the season of Thanksgiving
Give me some cranberry and a slice.

This looks so delicious give me a taste
It smells...

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Tom turkey my dear feathered friend
Beheaded, plucked naked to the end

The stuffing is mixed and oh so moist
Flipped on your side we shout and rejoice

We...

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Let’s thank God for this turkey day
But all of the birds have runaway
They must of seen the axe 
Don’t think they could relax
Left all their...

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Long time ago in the old wild west
A hunter raised his gun, he was a 
Round up cowboy, and shooting 
Was his fun

He saw a...

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Turkey oh turkey what can I say
Unbelievable tenderness is what we want this day
Relishing each tasty morsel with so much glee
Kindness in the air for...

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I am told to be thankful
A day that reminds me,
             Screaming at me
to...

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I try to make myself very scarce midst the teeming flock,
To reduce the risk of finding my neck on the chopping block!
Why do you put...

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