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Growing Older |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania 
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Growing Older It is with grace and pleasure That I add another year For love grows ever stonger And our loved ones ever dear Life is much more savored Each day is wrapped in gold As I recall accomplishments Through trials of the soul The air somehow is sweeter now Passion more intense For love has come to realize The joys of every sense If I had recognized in youth The secrets I have learned Perhaps I’d not accomplished The pleasures I have earned Let the youthful have their dreams And let them think they know All about life’s footsteps In which they’ll surely grow So here’s a toast to golden years And don’t forget the truth It’s not the years, but mileage Since wild days of youth And mileage has brought our love To such a wondrous place And passion to perfection And that’s why I age with grace Elizabeth Santos |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Breaking in love through road trials and tests.....what a wonderful inspirational verse from you this morning. Shows that when there is love there not to give up on it but to hold onto it and you will make it through the rough spots and be better and stronger for it. Beautiful |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
"If I had recognized in youth The secrets I have learned Perhaps I’d not accomplished The pleasures I have earned" What a wonderful message Liz ... written with the grace and sincerity of one who surely has lived these words. Similar thoughts me twin ... Best wishes, /Kit |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Elizabeth, You captured the mental grace But left out the physical trace. Your poetry is devine. Love Sy |
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BSC
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Member Elite
since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Simply beautiful Liz. Today is our 29th anniversary, and I'd like to print this out and give it to my husband, if you don't mind. I could never write anything as lovely to share with him. Your words always seem to capture the very essence of what's inside. Thank you. Bonnie |
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Cerenity Member Elite
since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637Escondido-California |
Hi Liz, The golden years, you have grown so beautifully in wisdom and grace and insight can be seen through out your poetry in every rhyme you pen has your love for life weaved through and through. Love, Cerenity "God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist. We have to be reminded that He exist!" (Writer Unknown) |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Too much of my mileage was acquired on rough, unpaved roads.... and it shows. *G* Loved this! |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
With grace and much wisdom, my friend..  |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This says it all! Very nice, Elizabeth! Denise |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Your not getting older - you're getting better (not original - but most appropriate JMHO) |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Thanks to all the older gang (though some of you may be young) for commenting on this poem.Bill, you are right, I'm only getting better. THanks, LIz |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Really good writing. True wisdom can only come from age and time. I liked this much! Deb |
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