Reading Level: Grade 2
Topics: Food Poems, Holiday Poems, Poems about Friends and Family, Thanksgiving
Poetic Techniques: Imagery, List Poems, Lyric & Dramatic Poems
Word Count: 57

About This Poem

One question students often ask me is what my favorite “kind” of poem is. That is, they want to know if I like haiku or limericks or diamantes or some other type of poem best. The word poets use to describe these different kinds of poems is “form.” A form is kind of poem defined by a set of rules, which might include a certain rhyme scheme, number of lines, syllable count and so on.

The truth of the matter is that I don’t normally write in poetic forms, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would either be a funny form like limericks or clerihews, or it would be the acrostic, where the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase.

With Thanksgiving Day (in the United States) coming soon, this week I was putting together a program on how to write “thankful” poems. One example I gave was a simple acrostic on the word “thanks.” I enjoyed that simple example enough that I decided to create a longer acrostic using the word “Thanksgiving,” listing things that you or I might be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day.

I hope you enjoy it! And if you’d like to read a few more poems about Thanksgiving, try these:

• It’s Thanksgiving Night
• The Monster’s Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Leftovers
• Thank You, Thanksgiving
• The Dog Ate Our Dinner

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