On the occasion of Beth & Harris Cooper, neighbors in Fearrington Village, NC, having given Mary & me a gift of a batch of their famous cookies they create and bake for friends (and themselves), yours truly having written the poem below as thanks for their kindness, the photograph and poem commemorating the occasion, April, 2017.
My own Burma-Shave-style advertisement.
Too many meetings?
Congestion on the street?
Come on out,
To where the air is sweet!
National Parks!
Burma-Shave Poetry
Anyone remember Burma-Shave signs? (Just us, huh!?) Well, they looked like this:
The Burma-Vita Company promoted their brushless shaving cream by posting a set of signs together along roadsides—all fun to read, the campaign hugely successful! This started in 1925 (just nine years following Congress’ creation of the National Park Service, we might add) and ended in the mid-1960’s.
I will share with you here on my blog a few of my own Burma-Shave style poems. Here is my first!
Recognize this pattern?
Fun on trips they gave!
Signs by the roadside,
On last sign they’d rave . . .
Burma-Shave!