Margarine Replaces Butter In the Sixties
Bluebonnet Margarine
Blonde girl with pigtails
In a blue checked gingham blouse
And a white pinafore
Showing us how GREAT
It tastes.
And it does spread easier
Than butter.
For Sure!
We are innocent
Easily led.
Still believing in people’s good.
We switch over easily.
Finally forgetting
What real butter used to taste like.
I had some the other day.
Wow!
Suddenly reawakened
And refreshed!
Despising the pigtail girl.
Uh-oh.
I just looked
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Categories:
replaces, food,
Form: Free verse
Joy Replaces the Sorrow
K-iss the rain goodbye,
R-ise of the beacon has begun;
I-t's a beautiful Monday,
S-unday night turns into a new sun.
T-wilight turns into dawn,
E-vening shadows fade away;
L-et nineteenth December brighten the dark and gray.
E-arly morning light
C-omforts your fainted heart;
L-et the rays above the horizon
E-rase the night for a fresh start.
V-iew in the
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Categories:
replaces, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
As the Day Replaces the Night
N-ight chill is about over,
O-ne beacon warms the cold wind;
R-ise of the sun will begin,
I-nclement weather will
E-nd.
N-ew dawn leaves the dusk
O-n twelfth November light;
N-ever let your life be dark,
A-s the day replaces the
N-ight.
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Categories:
replaces, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Day Replaces the Night
D-ay replaces the night,
I-t breaks after twilight time;
A-n early morn has broken,
N-ew dawn is so sublime.
N-ight is replaced by day,
E-vening is nowhere in view;
J-ust see the sunrise,
O-ne beacon shines for
Y-ou.
M-ay twentieth Saturday
I-s setting things aright;
L-et both your eyes behold,
A-nother day replaces the
N-ight.
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Categories:
replaces, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Clear Happiness Replaces the Fog
You speak to me, I don’t hear a word,
Still, I know that you’re down, you’re sad.
I can tell by the curious look on your face,
That you’d rather stay with me and be glad.
Then that moment you stop, turn slowly, and walk,
Head down, you walk through the door.
And I sit and ponder and think and care,
Alone,
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Categories:
replaces, dog, happy, love,
Form: Personification
When Gloominess Replaces Sunshine
A storm is brewing,
clouds are scattered by the harshest wind,
but they flee Eastward to meet the surly, purple sunset;
dark is rapidly growing subduing everything,
even seagulls are worried
about the safety of their tiny chicks huddled in the nest.
When gloominess replaces sunshine,
the evening is a looming shadow vanishing into the woods
resounding with the frightening howls
of wolves and
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Categories:
replaces, farm, fear, hope, howl,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Replaces Nothing
her face was empty
she was empty
he was nothing
they were empty
empty was their love
nothing were their souls
nothing would take it all away
empty it all away
and find nothing there but what is yours
His voice was nothing
her hands were empty
they were
When empty replaces nothing
when something is an item ort a feeling
when nothiong becomes something
when empty is fulfilled
you will
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Categories:
replaces, imagination, on writing and
Form: Free verse