Turkey Day

Lines: 12

This pseudonym for Thanksgiving,
Proclaims material living,
An attitude of gluttony,
This is what the phrase means to me.

No prayer said before the meal,
Don’t list the gratitude you feel,
Just stuff yourself with the turkey,
This is what the phrase means to me.

Another four-day holiday,
We simply waste money and play,
On a glutinous spending spree,
This is what the phrase means to me.



Form: Kyrielle a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains. Each stanza contains a repeating line, which is normally the last line. Each line of a Kyrielle has eight syllables. The minimum number of stanzas is three. The rhyme scheme is aabB, ccbB, ddbB, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB or axaZ, bxbZ, cxcZ, dxdZ.