Thanksgiving Poems

By Fred Zajac

Contents 1. Thanksgiving Time 2. Thanks to Thanksgiving 3. Red Man's Revenge 4. Thanksgiving Grace 5. Black Friday 6. Thanksgiving: The Bird's-Eye View 7. Thanksgiving Toast 8. Thanksgiving on the Square 9. Thanksgiving at the Airport 10. I'll Start a Diet Tomorrow 11. Burn Down the House 12. Thanksgiving at the Game 13. The Vegetarian Thanksgiving Guest 14. The Vegetarian Thanksgiving Host 15. Autumn Haikus 16. The Thanksgiving Table 17. Ode to Thanksgiving 18. A Thanksgiving Pageant 19. The Journey: A Thanksgiving Sonnet 20. Winter Is on Its Way

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644248584

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Thanksgiving Poems

Fred Zajac

Copyright © 2018 Fred Zajac

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2018

ISBN 978-1-64424-859-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64424-858-4 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Thanksgiving Time

Thanks to Thanksgiving

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Red Man’s Revenge

Thanksgiving Grace

Black Friday

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Thanksgiving The Bird’s-Eye View

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Thanksgiving Toast

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Thanksgiving on the Square

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Thanksgiving at the Airport

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I’ll Start a Diet Tomorrow

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Burn Down the House

Thanksgiving at the Game

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The Vegetarian Thanksgiving Guest

The VegetarianThanksgiving Host

Autumn Haikus

The Thanksgiving Table

Ode to Thanksgiving

A Thanksgiving Pageant

The Journey A Thanksgiving Sonnet

Winter is on its Way

Preface

Since the dawn of civilization, almost every society has had an annual observance to celebrate the autumn harvest, where the people come together to feast and join in festivities in a time of plenty. In the United States, there is Thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The early Plymouth colonists and the native Wampanoag came together to share a meal and entertainment. President George Washington announced a onetime first Thanksgiving holiday to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26, 1789.

In 1863, during Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that a national day of Thanksgiving be celebrated every year on the final Thursday of November. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill that would put Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, where it is celebrated today. Americans will gather for a day