Thanksgiving Magic

By Rowena Bastin Bennett

Thanksgiving Day I like to see

Our cook perform her witchery.

She turns a pumpkin into pie

As easily as you or I

Can wave a hand or wink an eye.

She takes leftover bread and muffin

And changes them to turkey stuffin’.

She changes cranberries to sauce

And meats to stews and stews to broths;

And when she mixes gingerbread

It turns into a man instead

With frosting collar ’round his throat

And raisin buttons down his coat.

Oh, some like magic made by wands,

And some read magic out of books,

And some like fairy spells and charms

But I like magic made by cooks!

Rowena Bastin Bennett, “Thanksgiving Magic” from The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, edited by Jack Prelutsky (New York: Random House, 1983). Reprinted with the permission of Kenneth C. Bennett.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (Random House Inc., 1983)