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Open Poetry #48

The Passing of Time

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2013-06-20 07:05 AM

The excitement of youth is spent,
The shadows of age I behold.
Old age has gone and pitched its tent,
Some, not I, sit around and mold.

That's not me, I feel more alive,
With old age mysteries I thrive.

©June 3, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2013-06-20 09:57 AM

Ah yes, the mysteries of old age:
Why does this hurt?
Why doesn't this work any more?
Why did this fall out/off?

Dying of curiosity keeps me alive too!

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-06-20 10:01 AM

Ah . . . That wicked wit of Lori strikes again. Thanks for a few smiles and a laugh.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

3 posted 2013-06-20 12:54 PM

Jerry, I expect you're not 100 years old yet?!
You looks younger on your photo )

I like that:
“That's not me, I feel more alive”

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2013-06-20 01:02 PM

I am seventy-four Gale. The picture is three years old. I'm grateful I have good genes. Thank you for showing up here today, it is appreciated.

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Gale
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since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

5 posted 2013-06-21 05:53 AM

I'm really surprised, Jerry!
I would never guess )
Although I know about such effect.
People use to say that I look ten years younger than I really am

But anyways I believe that senility isn't the matter of time. Someone can get old in 18, someone stays young in 90. Perhaps it's the matter of suffering.
But if I related "age" to the time scale, I would say that senility is when you're 90, but your teeth haven't changed again

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2013-06-21 06:27 AM

Hah! That's one way of looking at it, Gale.

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