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Transmogrify
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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Transmogrify Very respectfully, I buttoned the top button of my old dress shirt the baby blue one, washed so often it is now, really, just a hint of blue. I did the thing you do to ties, the paisley one, hanging around my neck, and it actually became presentable. I brushed back the medium-length hair on my temple, the left side first, and then the right as it was more temperamental, was always obstinate, never wanting to lay like the left. The top of my head I left alone – it was bald, after all. The mirror showed two, deep-set blue eyes that always seemed to elicit one comment or another, depending upon circumstances; a beard from ear to ear, following my jaw-line, going half-way up both cheeks, two inches down the neck and very grey, as is my hair now. Age doesn’t so much show, as does wear, permanent laugh lines, and a pensive sadness missing all that has come and gone. I look at that old man staring back from the mirror and try to match him with the exuberance and vitality of the memories flashing behind my eyes. I try to understand who he is; from where he came and how he kidnapped my face . . . but I’m interrupted by gleeful laughter filling the space between my ears. I see . . . You! Heat flushes my skin. My heart throbs with abandon; the old man in the mirror transmogrifies, and there I am, a young, thirty-something, calling over my shoulder as I assign perfection to the knot in my tie . . . I’m coming, honey. I’m coming. © wesley james beard, jr. January 2018 |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Something everyone does, but many without the articulation, my friend. BTS ...just bein' Bluesy |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
"articulation" Lori said, and you, my friend, have it in spades. ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Ha-ha-ha! Jerry thinks I look like Lori Rhoden! Now that's "articulation" for ya! Ha-ha-ha! Tell me, Mr. Bolton...is it my long hair or my cute smile that got the final vote? :V ...just bein' Bluesy |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Heh.Heh Neither one got my vote, my friend, it is your basic sincerity I've read in your poems lo these many years. THAT always gets my "final vote." ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jimmy, Jimmy I really enjoyed this poem! But I must confess I kept expecting a funeral or something heart wrenching at the end. I loved this 'slice of life' as our friend would say. ~L |
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Poet In Pink Senior Member Posts 1066 MI |
You know what they say Jimmy...Your only as old as you feel  This is a great write! Much enjoyed ~ Alana |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Great write as always, Jimmy. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Great write as always, Jimmy. |
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insect Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014 |
I hope your honey is taking you dancing now that your in your "thirty-something" again!  ...thanks for transporting me back to a wonderful time in my life... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Man! I just love this, as I have been there. Like Lori mentioned, all of us have one way or another. However you captured it very well! Eric true love never looks after it's own interests |
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