We Love Thanksgiving Haikus
The Palm Beach Post printed the winners of its Thanksgiving pie haiku (pieku!) contest yesterday. They're all pretty great. One of our favorites:
Bless this festive meal.We're definitely incorporating that one when we say grace before Thanksgiving dinner. Not only was that "pieku" our favorite, but it was the winner! So clearly, the Post editors and we think alike. Here's our second favorite:
Please let these Thanksgiving pies
Not go to my thighs.
Blueberry fillingWe like it because we also have a tendency to get food on our shirt. But do most people have blueberry pie for Thanksgiving? It's really not a fall fruit. Not that we'd be opposed to it...
drips from my fork to my shirt
whipped cream will follow.
We asked readers to wax poetic about Thanksgiving pies – in a 17-syllable poem, of course! [Palm Beach Post]
Comments
Bless this festive meal.
please let these thanksgiving pies not go to my thihgs
Posted by: vennessa gurney | November 19, 2008 10:20 AM