Have Mercy On Fellows Of Age

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Open Poetry #49

Have Mercy On Fellows Of Age

Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana

0 posted 2015-12-24 12:30 PM

fellows of age
a turn of the page
candlewax falls
from their ears

space between words
singing of birds
logic flows
from their beers

settled in time
struggling for rhyme
their pens run from
laxative ink

set in their ways
while Uncle Sam pays
for they all must
look pretty in pink

if I were the one
to give them a gun
to aim at a
bottle or can

all hell would break loose
quick! Hide the goose
we were raising for
good neighbor Sam

now I know I’ll age
then you’ll turn the page
and I’ll mourn my
pen and my quill

if I no longer roam
far from bedpans of chrome
patronize gently
my plight

for a fellow of age
fresh into my cage
I promise never
to bite

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-12-24 09:28 AM

I resemble that remark (all of'um). . . makes me want to throw away my pen . . . er . . . keyboard . . . laxative ink, eh . . . probably more truth in that line than in any of them . . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2015-12-24 11:41 AM

Tf,
There you go cracking me up again! You old geezer! LOL! You are only as old as you feel (or act) and from your writings here I'd say that spans 8-88! ~L

Cari
Member
Posts 411
Englnand

3 posted 2015-12-24 11:41 AM

Some interesting observations except for one, I don’t equate logic with beer, rather the opposite if fact, though that may have to do with the quantity consumed. If it was meant on a pun, I’m with you.
An interesting piece to read and reflect on.

Cari

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2015-12-24 12:34 PM

Benny Hill would make this into a song, but I like it just like it is..

Thanks Tick

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

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