Author: D.C. Butterfield

Thanksgiving It’s a gratitude attitude Appreciations obligations Collated celebrations Across Christian nations, Gastronomical gatherings Culture cuisine Fine festive feast Succulent scene, Knowing acknowledgement Providence praised Homage and honor Rejoice, He was raised, Sincere supplication To goodness and grace Consideration and credit Putting prayer in its place, Yet, more than...

Mental Meadow There were thorns along the pathway And blow-downs I must pass As lightning lit the night sky A torrential rain morass, There were pitfalls ‘long the portage Past the rapids and the falls And all along the valley Where the forest formed the walls, There seemed to...

Perspective Its a matter of perspective All in your point of view Just don’t sweat the small stuff And, stuff won’t get to you, Its all in how we look at things That will decide what each day brings The limits of our vision scope A presumptive part of...

I’m Not Strange If there’s no such thing as ocelots Okapi stripes or zebra stops Garlic breath is oh so sweet Onion pie just can’t be beat, Kiss a frog won’t make a Prince Dirty diapers make men winch Chocolate ain’t a maker-upper Nuisance calls don’t come at supper,...

I Wonder I wonder ’bout the “arming race” Where to put the nuclear waste Why there’s rich and why there’s poor Will cancer ever get a cure, I wonder ’bout the price of gold What I’ll be like when I get old Why “good” and “bad” must always duel...

Stainless Steel Teeth Says dare-devil Davy, “Ya can’t cut the gravy! What do you think?”, in turning to Bill “For sure you don’t bluff, its bus tire tough That ballbuster was over the hill!” And Sam, from the south, a plug in his mouth Was chewing, and chewing, and...