<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homage To The Turkey......[Humor; Holiday Food]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Carmi suggested this poem paying homage to a bird, <br>but first I had to consult a book to get a definition of that word.<br>'Homage' definition #2 is 'special honor or respect....publicly' shown.<br>Is the special honor therefore having ones flesh cut off ones bones? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps instead the honor comes in being 'served' with ceremony<br>at Thanksgiving, when a turkey's status soars above that of baloney.<br>As a kid I'd join for holiday feasts with assorted kin, <br>and await the carving of the naked headless bird with the golden skin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hours in a hot oven, accompanied by periodic basting, <br>produced a festive centerpiece which was well worth tasting.<br>And from its drippings gravy was made to drench potatoes yummy, <br>and cooked inside the bird was spicy stuffing, soon to fill my tummy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the bones were stripped of meat, with none left for the flies, <br>I'd seek out the wishbone, the potentially-lucky prize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So here's to you, the Turkey, who Ben Franklin thought much of.<br>We hope you rest in avian peace, when you reach Turkey Heaven above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bri+Edwards">Bri Edwards</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353053" data-title="Homage To The Turkey......[Humor; Holiday Food] de Bri Edwards" data-description="Carmi suggested this poem paying homage to a bird, but first I had to consult a book to get a definition of that word. 'Homage' definition #2 is 'special honor or respect....publicly' shown. Is the special honor therefore having ones flesh cut of..."></div> </div> </div>

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