Poems for November 2025's Trending Searches
It’s time to savor the last month of autumn before the nippy winds of winter roll in. This list of trending search poetry brings out the heart of November— family, aggressive shopping, and endless gratitude.
Native American Heritage Month
One of the most important parts of November is the celebration of Native American Heritage Month. As the Native American population faces continued marginalization in the US, it is crucial for us to amplify the voices of Indigenous artists, like that of poet Kimberly Blaeser!
Blaeser’s poem “Housing Conditions of One Hundred Fifty Chippewa Families” discusses themes of family, specifically the lack of familial community felt by many Native Americans living in US reservations. This is due to the removing of Indigenous Peoples from their tribes by white officials, removing them from their family and community. To those who undermine the Indigenous right to their homes, Blaeser responds.
2. Thanksgiving
What is Thanksgiving without giving thanks? Each year before the big feast, mine and many other families go around the table and say what we’re thankful for. With the current state of the world this gratitude can feel half-hearted at times.
I read the poem “Thanks” by W.S. Merwin on Thanksgiving morning, I hope it brings you the truthful encouragement it brought me:
“with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you”
3. Black Friday
Entertaining Black Friday sales can be a dangerous game. I have seen people getting trampled in a herd in the 34th street Macy’s more than once! Great deals can really turn us into animals.
In “At the Galleria Shopping Mall”, Tony Hoagland expresses how materialism can domesticate us and blur our vision of reality.
4. Jamaica Hurricane
Over the weekend, category 5 storm Hurricane Melissa has set the record for the most powerful storm ever observed in the Atlantic. The storm acts monstrously, with its worst impacts expected over the course of next week.
In her poem “Hurricane”, Mary Oliver describes how living through a hurricane does to us— how it can feel like the storm is ensuing within us, along with the damage. But after the damage, the natural environment gradually begins to heal and flourish, along with our own selves.
5. Marshawn Kneeland
Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland has passed away on November 6th. “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman is the perfect poem to celebrate Kneeland— although his soul has left the world his triumphant mark on it will forever last.” Many will remember him.
“The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.”
The end of the fall season makes me think of “November Night” by Adelaide Crapsey:
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
These poems remind me of the last dead leaves dropping around us into the night. It’s time to savor every last marvelous shade.
Written by Maya Olivo
Maya Olivo is a Mexican-Puerto Rican writer who sees poetry in everything around her. Her poems have appeared in Love & Squalor, Synthesis Publications, and Unmuted: The Girls Write Now 2021 Anthology. Previously she was awarded a Gold Key and Silver Medal in Novel Writing by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is a senior at Sarah Lawrence College and a proud native New Yorker raised in East Harlem.
