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A boy looks up at two tall towers of stacked pies on a table
Mattia Cerato
Poetry,

Pumpkin Pies Surprise

Read a Thanksgiving poem about too many pies.

By By Eric Ode | Art by Mattia Cerato
From the October/November 2026 Issue

Learning Objective: Students will understand a poem by looking at how a poem is written and what it means.

Featured Skill: Elements of Poetry,

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Pumpkin Pies Surprise

No one brought the turkey

or the sausages or hams.

No one brought the rice and beans

or pickled beets or yams.

No one came with buttered bread.

Instead—what a surprise!—

everyone, yes, EVERYONE

arrived with pumpkin pies!


Pumpkin pies! Pumpkin pies!

What a happy feeling!

Filling up the dining room

and reaching to the ceiling.

Find a fork, and grab a plate,

and have another slice.

For dinner this Thanksgiving,

it’s a pumpkin paradise!

Reprinted by permission of Eric Ode. All Rights Reserved.

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