Fighting The Age Battle - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2013-03-28 09:02 PM

Fighting the Age Battle

Although I vowed it wouldn’t happen,
Age is creeping up on me.
All my friends are now great-grandmas.
I don’t know how that can be.

My beautician and I decided
To stop coloring my hair.
We had both of us forgotten
What shade was hiding under there.

Imagine her excitement
And indeed my great dismay
That what ever hue had been there
Had completely gone away.

Now my friends are sympathetic.
They think I must have had a fright,
And it was so terrifying
It turned my hair white over night.

By: Joyce Johnson 3/28/13

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

1 posted 2013-03-28 10:57 PM

Joyce, you are wonderful. I can't tell you how many times you (and your poetry) have made me smile. Thank you for sharing your poetic gift.

Love,
Alison

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2013-03-28 11:02 PM

Thank you Alison. You are always so kind to my poetry. Love, Joyce

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

3 posted 2013-03-29 06:54 PM

quote:
Now my friends are sympathetic.
They think I must have had a fright,
And it was so terrifying
It turned my hair white over night.

Hah! I really enjoy your sense of humor.

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

4 posted 2013-03-30 05:07 PM

Joyce: no matter the color of your hair, you are always the same, sweet person.

Love
Betty Lou

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2013-04-21 04:27 PM

Totally awesome, dear Joyce! Thank you for the smiles. I decided a year ago to let my hair be natural ... and I love it now. Just today a friend who visited saw me for the first time "in white" and after the first moment of surprise she found it looks good on me, but feared it would look bad on her ...

Hugs.
Margherita

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2013-05-18 09:00 PM

Awesome Joyce!! Loved it. Had me laughing all the way...

jimmy

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

7 posted 2013-05-18 09:53 PM

I am loving this again ... and still smiling as I read it.

xoxox
A

johnthecat
Junior Member
Posts 18
England

8 posted 2021-04-08 06:13 AM

I love it.
Your words never fail to make me smile.
Thank you.

May your roof never fall in and those beneath it never fall out.

Irish proverb

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.