[stylist] Poem - "Ageing" - First Draft

[Pagan Tree]

Very deep and haunting for such a common human condition. In short, I think
it is beautiful The kind that would be reread over and over again. Thanks
for sharing.
Eve

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Yeah Bill
>
> I kind of like that one.  I think 48 was when I starte to notice aches and
> pains that persisted.
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> Shawn
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> Hi Gang,
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>
> 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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> ---
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> Aging
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> I'm not so old, as reckoned now: only 48,
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> with stalwart bravest hair,an air
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> of faint resign, and mind engraving lines of light,
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> one hopes, instead of jangled body grousing.
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> I house my hopes, my hymns, in stanzas
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> silver blue and full of moon.
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> and rising sun as well. Death, that jealous queen
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> is on my heels, if not my heart:I start
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> to scribe some wisdom verse, no better than antacid ads
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> if not much worse. My shudder bones are ache with rue:
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> complaint for pains incurred two decades past.
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> I'll last another decade; two, if I can watch
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> my judder step, and always brush my teeth and sparsing hair
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> and serve the mind, our body's mayor.
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> --
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> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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