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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2004-06-29 04:40 PM

The Perfect Age

If I could live my life again
I might wish to be twenty,
When life and love still lay ahead
And dreams were mine aplenty.

Or it's probable that thirty
Would be just the age for me,
With my three children gathered round
My still young, shapely knee.

Or could I live my life again
I might choose to be forty;
With cares of their early childhood past,
I'd have time to look sporty.

But as I ponder on it,
Life was truly great at fifty.
Free then to love myself a bit;
Yes, fifty would be nifty.

But since I can't go back in time,
I'll love the age I'm living;
Knowing the good Lord is my judge
And that he is forgiving.

By: Joyce 6/29/04

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

1 posted 2004-06-29 05:07 PM

Dear Joyce: I enjoyed your poem. I have thought about this myself and what age I liked best. For me it was 35.

Love
Betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

[This message has been edited by Trillium (06-30-2004 12:25 AM).]

Beasley
Senior Member

since 2003-11-28

Posts 682
Cheboygan,MI USA

2 posted 2004-07-01 08:00 AM

Nice poem.
Love, Barb

midnightblues
Senior Member

since 2000-07-01

Posts 1597
Singapore

3 posted 2004-07-01 12:44 PM

Hi Joyce,

nice poem! so positive and full of sweet memories

i love it!

Love
MiCheLLe

If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues

PKreturns
Member

since 2003-07-21

Posts 362
New Orleans, LA

4 posted 2004-07-01 12:56 PM

Bravo Joyce. Although I would like to be 8-1/2 again. That was a great time.

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2004-07-02 08:21 AM

Joyce~

I used to think
that twenty-two
was just the age
I'd always want to be~

Then I figured out
each year that I'm in
gives me new reasons to shout~

Joy in abundance flows
with each coming year
and when I think of the alternatives
I really want to cheer~

Oh ... oh ... such early morning inspire~
Thank you lady ...~
I'm thinking of you this day and in the remembering days to come~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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PatAngel
Member

since 2004-04-05

Posts 451
California

6 posted 2004-07-04 02:11 PM

Dear Joyce,

What a wonderful poem! I had often thought I'd like to turn back the hands of time to my teen years. But after pondering all I have learned over the years, I actually enjoy being my age of fifty-ish? Lol!

Love,
Patricia

'When you find a dream within your heart, don't ever let it go.
For dreams are the tiny seeds from which tomorrow grows.'

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2004-07-06 02:49 AM

this makes me feel better

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