With earnest hearts, to Thee. Thanksgiving Day poems vary in tone, structure and theme. “Thanksgiving Day” by Thomas Frederick Young adapts a religious approach and reads more like a prayer.

Bless your Thanksgiving feast with any one of the short Thanksgiving prayers—from poems to psalms—to make your feast even more special.

Use one of these simple Thanksgiving prayers and blessings at the dinner table this year. Find psalms from the Bible, poems of praise and short benedictions.

To, as it was, whet your appetite for the story next week, here is a prayer-poem from the Rev. Todd Jenkins, head of staff at First Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, Tenn.

Thanksgiving Prayer We come to this table today, O Lord, humble and thankful and glad. We thank Thee first for the great miracle of life, for the exaltation of being human, for the capacity to love.

On Thanksgiving include a prayer for peace in the Holy Land. Pray for the wisdom of leaders to find new paths to peace and security, to step back from war and illuminate our lives with beauty ...

At dinnertime, say a special prayer. That next year we will all be there. So just enjoy the day, the fullness of living. And thank the Lord for this wonderful Thanksgiving.

Bless your Thanksgiving feast with any one of the short Thanksgiving prayers—from poems to psalms—to make your feast even more special.