Best Replaceable Poems

Goodbye, high heels. You made me look
Professional with suit and book
Or sexy in a tango dress
Alas, my toe joints are a mess.
It seems so shallow to mourn shoes,
But really, this gives me the blues
Because it means that I resign
To this unfortunate decline
That’s permanent and has...

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When the tick at last loud enough that my clock did knock
I got a dog
I saved and I readied and I searched with my gut
And I found you
You most spectacular mutt
You taught me
You changed me
In a way brought me up
Such a challenging intelligent self possessed...

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A dying woman posts a nice dating ad for her husband,
soon to be a lovely lonely widower.
She recognizes that she is replaceable when her light dims and fades to off.
There are substitutes, swaps and replacements for everything
if you are not too precious about it.
The degree,...

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There was a horrible fire in my 
        house not too long ago-
Everything burned to ashes and 
in the garbage I had to throw
        many valuable things that 
meant the world...

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Reality is hard to replace


                           our white elephant is a disgrace
        ...

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You'll get rid of your old shoes,
and buy new ones.

You'll be heartbroken,
but fall in love once again.

You'll lose an important contract,
but get your break with millions of dollars
from other business deals.

You'll make a mistake,
but become wiser.

You'll make a low sale of your first novels,
only to...

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(after Charles Baudelaire)

It’s not the same.  I noticed it today,
while dodging Rond-Point carriages.
I’m not the sort who mindlessly disparages
whatever’s new, but Haussman’s swept away

the Paris that I loved.  Thus thought the swan
who’d wandered somehow from the Tuileries
and limped, bewildered, frightened, ill-at-ease,
his web feet...

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You’re not replaceable
Despite what I might have said
I let my tongue do the talking
Which has been my downfall of late
I can’t tell them my secrets
Or express my insecurities
They won’t yell at me when I bite my nails
Or waste money on phone bills for me
Oh, understand...

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You see it
  there in the headlines cursed.
Those old scandal sheets dredging up the worst
 the only news worth printing with gossiping unrehearsed.
Yup,  Brad and Angelina are parting,
  wonder if there's a point in love even starting.
Are Tom and Katie still together...

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re-post inspired by contest theme

The
house was full
    of yesterdays-
books
    that filled
      wet Wednesdays
cross-stitch
   hours upon the wall
   eclectic
art,glass,pottery
collected,
moments
   sentiments
   priceless,unique
   irreplaceable-

a smell of love
...

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An outsider required, to maintain relations
Reasons of difference, bonds of similarity
Joy felt, compensating for years of hollowness
Blood thickens, only through supplement.
Spoken lies laughed off, through mockery
Signs of clarity, distorted by unwilling eyes
A voice of reason, silenced by replacement
Brewing frustrations, releasing green steam.
A day of deprivation,...

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Shivering as the winter cold 
Blows in as if an open door you hold
A child's life was sold 
To a new country he was told

That his old life was replaceable
Soon exposed to a mother's sin which was not erasable 
Hurt and lost this child became...

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Sleep refuses to come
When you’re in the sights of a gun
Your eyes open just a crack
When no one has your back
	
Tombstones take hold of the reigns
We have nothing but false claims
Bodies fuel the empty fields
Nothing matters but human yields

So much wasted potential
I hope they weren’t...

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Mostly the discarded voice
Who is never noticed
That is never heard
Who is mostly ignored like a lone bird


Always the sidepiece
Never the centre
Usually forgotten
Barely remembered


Heartbroken
Voice cracked
Choices regretted
Face draught


Usually replaceable
never indispensable
Barely needed
Always preceded


Maybe I am selfish
For wanting to be cherished
For wanting to be adored
Wanting to be put before....

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