Replaceable Poems | Examples

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There was a time
When my faith was unshakeable

The Lord proved
That I was remakeable

His love for me
Was simply not mistakeable

The Holy Spirit’s strength
Was totally unbreakable

For forsaking me
He was incapable

His call on my life
Was just so inescapable

But I went rogue
And became insatiable

I thought His love
Would just be replaceable

In the world I could hide
And then become untraceable

Write my own ticket
My desires now obtainable

But such a life
Is so unsustainable

Bent and broken
I’m biodegradable

I’ll never get home
The chasm unscalable


Would He take me back
That seemed so debatable

My life got so twisted
My actions so hateable

I didn’t deserve it
My soul was unrateable

Consumed with despair
My steps were retraceable

At His gate I cried
My debt is unpayable

He opened the gates
How is this explainable

You are my son
That is not erasable

Such love as this 
Simply unrestrainable

Replaceable

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.

Replaceable

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, reminding of dependence
Electronic addiction, silencing conversations
The nurtured norm, altered by a temporary presence
Consequential traits excused, through lavish gifts. 
Ties that unwind, a stranger feeding a cohesive pretense
A penniless son, warranting no affection from his father.

Replaceable Life

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 unpredictable

A new man in his life not his blood
always unreliable 
a wife, a father, a husband to this family was easily replaceable........

Yearning to remember the past 
became insatiable
Years went by and the blurs of memories were now untraceable

For what was created was a forgotten man
now invisible
A ghost walking the earth wishing it was all reversible

Reality Is Hard To Replace-Someone, Or Something, Replaceable

Reality is hard to replace


                           our white elephant is a disgrace
                       she parks herself wherever she places
                       usually taking up needed space
                       in the old days she would win a race
                      now she'll barely outrun a turtles pace
                           kids use to play on her face
                    on her trunk their hands would trace
                            upkeep we still embrace
                            her past is hard to erase
           through the hands of time she lies in God's grace
           through our hearts we loved our old faithful ace
                 and now the time has come to part waste
             the deed to ole rusty bomber is in the brief case
            soon her ashes will be placed in the family vase
           when the setting sun covered her tears with lace
              as the tow truck took away ...  her final breath 
                          ... reality is hard to replace

3/18/17

Someone, or Something, Replaceable - Poetry Contest

Love Yourself- Something Replaceable

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 charting?
  Wasn't there Nicole and Mimi somewhere in the past?
So much for the wonders of Scientology's inflated gas
  seems nothing is meant to forever last.
Maybe the Bieber's right despite his bravado and wealth
  just go and love yourself.




For Something, Someone, Replaceable contest - love

Goodbye, High Heels: Something Replaceable

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 no cure.
The shoes must go; I won’t endure
With every step a stabbing pain –
I am too old to be that vain.
Orthotics fit my hiking boots;
They don’t go with my dressy suits,
But I’m just glad I can still hike
And climb and do the things I like.
So even if I’m feeling torn,
The high heeled shoes, just barely worn,
Will go to Goodwill - every pair! -
And I'll find something else to wear.

3/12/2017
For contest Something replaceable
Sponsored by Julia Ward

A Dog Is Someone Or Something Replaceable

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 pup
I was in awe
Adored you so daily
Absorbing each moment of every walk
How you glowed in the moonlight of our late at night jaunts
And sat with me watching what was there to watch
You were there with me when my life fell apart
I thought too often about you
About me
Without you
That too soon inevitable death do we part
Spent too much time worried about a pain in my heart
When the time came 
You were noble
I was by your side
Adopting my next dog
Three days after you died

17.03.09
Composed for Someone or Something Replaceable contest

Life Is Change: Someone, Or Something, Replaceable

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 hit the bestseller list.

You'll cry in hurt in your soul,
but happiness will soon be your home.

You don't have to worry;
things will unfold themselves,
and sort themselves out, as they always do.....

The Swan, and Someone Replaceable

(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 scraping as he struggled on,

he knew not where, uncertain why his wings
were rasping in dry dust, instead of water.
Nearby, a black girl on a cast-iron bench
(advanced TB: I’ve come to know these things)
sat huddled, shy, not knowing any French, 
quite lost.  And Africa has lost a daughter.

Shock, Horror - You'Re Replaceable

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, scope and extent of the swap varies, but there are no exceptions.
Departure's vacuum is not sustainable, something must rush it to fill the void.
You can't hold your breath for ever, the new breath will rush in to replace the non-replaceable.
Better to choose wisely and plan ahead 
than to be forced to cope with what the cat or tide brings in.
Everything has a use by date, nothing lasts for ever, you can't take it with you. 
Even love is fleeting and flickers out. 
The only thing that lasts, and lingers on, is the memories
Cherish those memories forever.
Let the substitutes dock in as replacements.

Some Things That Are Not Replaceable

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
     percolated
      into offspring
memories
drifting
       to timeless
tomorrows

Naturally Replaceable

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 essential
It’s ok we’ll find a replacement
Just a minor debasement

We can toy with our creations
Find some sort of relation
It’s fine if it has a different name
When they all look just the same

You'Re Not Replaceable

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 I don’t mean anything I say
But only the things I write
I didn’t mean you were replaceable
When I said that you were last night

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