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Poetry Prompt: Thankful Acrostics When Poetry Feels Like It’s Gone

By Callie Feyen 17 Comments

Settle Yourself In the Middle of Everything

Callie Feyen believed she’d lost the poetry of teaching, but Megan Willome showed her that poetry (and teaching) hadn’t lost *her.*

Filed Under: Acrostics, Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Thanksgiving Poems, The Joy of Poetry, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Thanksgiving—Poem by James Whitcomb Riley

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Thanksgiving Poem fall leaves

May we share love’s touch with another during this Thanksgiving season, even one whose “need of touches we had never known.”

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The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Harvest Moon

Wherever you are, make it splendorous and warm during the hopeful Thanksgiving season.

Filed Under: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Moon poems, Thanksgiving Poems

Thanksgiving Poem: The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier

Give thanks for “the vines of the gourd and the rich melon run” with a Thanksgiving poem, The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier.

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Thanksgiving Poem: Emily Dickinson’s 814 (One Day is there of the Series)

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

thanksgiving poem emily dickinson

Thanksgiving, it seems, is at much an act of memory as of the present moment, a time of reflection. At least to hear Emily Dickinson tell it.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Family Poems, Thanksgiving Poems

Thanksgiving Poems: A Table Poem

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

thanksgiving poem

Thanksgiving poems, from gratitude to the table. This one has its share of both.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Poems, Friendship Poems, Poems, poetry, Thanksgiving Poems

Thanksgiving Poems: A Poet’s Thanks

By L.L. Barkat 7 Comments

A poet offers a word of thanks: “Something which says, you didn’t need to make room for this—the onions, the beets, the linen closet, the river and the copper…”

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poems about writing, poetry, Thanksgiving Poems

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