Vanilla beans and vanilla extract
So many things flavored with that
Vanilla soap and vanilla tobacco
All with wonderful smells to show
Vanilla cookies, vanilla ice cream
Both things to make faces gleam
Vanilla frosting, vanilla yoghurt
Two very different tastes to perk
Up buds and to brighten our smiles
So many different ways to use piles
Of flavoring so very innocent and sweet
One wonders if there's anything not peaked
By the wonderful smell and taste of vanilla
A unique flavoring which is so very mellow
And yet turns anything it touches into more
Than simply the visit to get it at the store ...
- Tristram
(c) Christopher W. Thomas
8:40am Wed. April 8th, 1998