• This page offer links to poems about and inspired by the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving poetry eloquently expresses the sentiments, conjuring up images and memories holidays past.

  
  Thanksgiving poems can be traditional, like one you would use to thank a host for preparing a delicious meal, or funny, like reminding readers to make room for dessert. Generally most Thanksgiving poems express appreciation for the blessings throughout the year. Many poems can also be used to say grace before the big Thanksgiving feast.

• The First Thanksgiving

  The Thanksgiving most Americans believe to be the origin of the holiday took place in 1621, when after a bountiful harvest in a land that had been hard on many of the settlers, the pilgrims decided to give thanks with a feast. They celebrated the harvest with their Native American neighbors, the Wampanoag tribe.Scholastic: The First Thanksgiving Feast

  
  The day was declared a federal holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. On October 3, 1963, Lincoln delivered his Thanksgiving proclamation, stating, "It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens."http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/lincoln_thanksgiving.html

• An Old Thanksgiving Rhyme

  • "Thanksgiving"
  • The year has turned its circle,
  • The seasons come and go.'
  • The harvest all is gathered in
  • And chilly north winds blow.
  • Orchards have shared their treasures,
  • The fields, their yellow grain,
  • So open wide the doorway~
  • Thanksgiving comes again!—UnknownSurLaLune Fairytales: Let's Give Thanks!

• 1. Thanksgiving is celebrated the fourth Thursday of November in America
  2. 2009: November 26
  3. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie
  4. One of the busiest travel days of the year

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