I promise to get back to regular posting soon. Until then, here are some "thanksgiving" poems in honor of the holiday, courtesy of The Academy of American Poets.
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Thanks
by W. S. Merwin
Listen...
The Thanksgivings
by Harriet Maxwell Converse
We who are here present thank the Great Spirit...
Around Us
by Marvin Bell
We need some pines to assuage the darkness...
A List of Praises
by Anne Porter
Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing...
Dusting
by Marilyn Nelson
Thank you for these tiny...
For the Fallen
by Laurence Binyon
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children...
Starfish
by Eleanor Lerman
This is what life does. It lets you walk up to...
What Was Told, That
by Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
What was said to the rose that made it open was said...
Lift Every Voice and Sing
by James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev'ry voice and sing...
Rabbi Ben Ezra
by Robert Browning
Grow old along with me...
For the Twentieth Century
by Frank Bidart
Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand...
Slow Waltz Through Inflatable Landscape
by Christian Hawkey
At the time of his seeing a hole opened—a pocket opened...
The Routine Things Around the House
by Stephen Dunn
When Mother died...
The Teacher
by Hilarie Jones
I was twenty-six the first time I held...
The Triumph of Time
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before our lives divide for ever...
Two Countries
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Skin remembers how long the years grow...
Visiting Pai-an Pavilion
by Hsieh Ling-yun
translated by Sam Hamill
Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust...
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