[stylist] Poem - "Ageing" - First Draft
Jacobson, Shawn D
Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
Tue Apr 28 17:12:27 UTC 2015
Yeah Bill
I kind of like that one. I think 48 was when I starte to notice aches and pains that persisted.
Shawn
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Hi Gang,
Wrote a poem today after being away from my morning desk for a few months. This one's about those creaky bones we all get after several decades contending with gravity. It's just a little bit morbid, I think, but not grossly so, or so I hope.
--Bill
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Aging
I'm not so old, as reckoned now: only 48,
with stalwart bravest hair,an air
of faint resign, and mind engraving lines of light,
one hopes, instead of jangled body grousing.
I house my hopes, my hymns, in stanzas
silver blue and full of moon.
and rising sun as well. Death, that jealous queen
is on my heels, if not my heart:I start
to scribe some wisdom verse, no better than antacid ads
if not much worse. My shudder bones are ache with rue:
complaint for pains incurred two decades past.
I'll last another decade; two, if I can watch
my judder step, and always brush my teeth and sparsing hair
and serve the mind, our body's mayor.
--
"Oh, Sophie! Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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