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Scavenging for Time
These days I find I’m scavenging for time lost, time gone And all the children running by don’t realise how soon it passes In such a rush I see them pace not even realising this time, this space Is nothing … Continue reading
Piece by Piece
Piece by piece The lines of regret Take their place Soft and slow The patience of time On my face In my limbs These strange aches and pains Haunt my sleep Failing flesh All of the secrets I can keep … Continue reading
Journey
Each year it turns This ancient world My boat is tilted Toward the moon’s hopeful light There is land in sight And there is comfort This good night I am aging Like the wood Of this sturdy boat My bones … Continue reading
Life passage
Glimpses of our mortality come too often these days Aching joints and muscles betray the youth we still feel sheltered here inside It is sobering this knowledge of the inevitability of decay All these little ambitions at our feet amount … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged aging, all, common, death, defiance, individual, inevitable, Life, life passage, skull, will
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Different
I was a different person then I shed my skin so many times I scarce remember, yet these photos and these memories attest to a time when I was other When I cherished hopes to my breast and played the … Continue reading
Weight
There is too much of me These days I lumber, old bones covered in skin that is loose, it folds across territories alien My rib cage disappeared so many years ago I can’t recall Beneath the layers hides the lithe form … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, Poetry
Tagged age, aging, fat, loss, overweight, realisation, sadness, self-image, weight, youth
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Beauty
Age depletes the need for beauty We are freed from bitter longing which in youth defined our very being, standing lost before a mirror turning left and right for nature’s kinder sight to find the angles where the shadows and … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged aging, Beauty, Dreams, fashion, Love, self acceptance, self hatred, symmetry, youth
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Procession
The procession of my days gives way to slow encroaching age Each page is written deep in blood and floods my mind with memories that tease The procession of these hours have powers to make the past within akin to … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, age, aging, Aspiration, belief, choice, dark, denial, Dreams, Life, memory, Musings, Philosophy, procession, truth
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Beauty Ages
Beauty ages so The cultural rules apply We will not deny The face forms hollows The lines of age hold their sway On too soon a day Beauty ages all The finest flower in time Loses her sweet prime And … Continue reading
The Great Beauty
Once celebrated On the world’s stage The perfect picture On the front page What of the swan With the progress of age? The great beauty Of the silver screen Parties, bonhomie Everyone’s queen But as the light fades Is she … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, age, aging, Aspiration, Beauty, belief, choice, denial, Dreams, fame, portrait
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