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Beatrice Boyle
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0 posted 2006-12-21 03:40 AM

Don’t Tell Me That I’m Old

Don’t tell me that I am old
For I am as young as you
In spirit if not in flesh
And thank God, my mind is true

When you stop and chat with me
Don’t shout into my ear
My music isn’t deafening
Like yours is my dear

Don’t treat me like a child
Because my hair has turned to grey
Don’t notice all my wrinkles
And hastily turn away

Don’t dismiss advice
That I sometimes give to you
I’ve been down your road before
And some respect is due

Don’t roll your eyes to heaven
Or laugh behind my back
If I can’t keep up the pace
For its energy I lack

Don’t tell me that I’m old
Though my years left are few
My spirit is still the same
And I’m as young as you!

Copyright ©2006 Beatrice Boyle
(All rights reserved)

Grandma Bea

[This message has been edited by Beatrice Boyle (12-23-2006 01:32 AM).]

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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Sydney, Australia

1 posted 2006-12-21 04:17 AM

Hear Hear, you tell em Grandma Bea!! loved this!! RDB

Beatrice Boyle
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2 posted 2006-12-21 04:28 AM

Hi Roniece...I never thought I'd be a member of the oldies club...so...I decided not to join!

By the way...what are you doing up at this hour...it's 4:25am here!

Bea

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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3 posted 2006-12-21 04:44 AM

no, no, I'm on Sydney time my sweet Grandma Bea... it's only 8.45pm here

I'm wide awake enjoying a chardy!

wanna join me? LOL

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

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4 posted 2006-12-21 04:56 AM

Enjoyed. I am up because I work nights.Take the word work lightly, my work is done within the first three hours. the rest of the time I am on watch duty at the front desk. martyjo

Beatrice Boyle
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5 posted 2006-12-21 04:59 AM

Thanks Roniece, but only if you make it a glass of rose`...oh...and chill the glass please!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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6 posted 2006-12-21 05:03 AM

Thanks "late". Which gives you plenty of time to compose some witty or interesting things for us night owls to read while courting the sandman!

Bea

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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7 posted 2006-12-21 05:21 AM

happily oblige my sweet Bea...glass is chilled and rose' is from New Zealand ... very nice drop!

Beatrice Boyle
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8 posted 2006-12-21 05:33 AM

A votre` Sante...nighty nite.

Bea

passing shadows
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9 posted 2006-12-21 08:50 AM

this is precious!

trutodaraiders
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10 posted 2006-12-21 09:13 AM

Im 27 years old Beatrice, and i'd rather talk with the wiser. Loved the poem because you pointed out the obvious. Just because your older doesnt mean your dead.

Interloper

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since 2000-11-06

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Deep in the heart

11 posted 2006-12-21 09:36 AM

BRAVA!
Well Done!
Write on

Poet, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

MoonShadow
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Dark side of the Moon.

12 posted 2006-12-21 09:51 AM

Ms Beatrice..

    Nice write to shake up the generation gap.  Bravo!

    Many times, when there is 'Snow on the Roof"... there is still a 'passionate, raging fire in the furnace'.  >;-)

              MoonShadow

Beatrice Boyle
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13 posted 2006-12-22 02:06 AM

Passing Shadows...so glad you dropped by...glad I brought a smile to your face.

Beatrice Boyle
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14 posted 2006-12-22 02:10 AM

Thanks raiders...(my late son-in-law was a rabid raiders fan...as for me...GO GIANTS!)

Don't know how wise I am...but I do like to pontificate every once in awhile!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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15 posted 2006-12-22 02:31 AM

Thankks Interloper...I plan on it!

Bea

Grandma Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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16 posted 2006-12-22 02:38 AM

Well now moonshadow...I'll bet you can see the flames all the way over on the dark side of the moon!

Bea

JamesMichael
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17 posted 2006-12-22 08:32 PM

Enjoyed...James

Larry C

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18 posted 2006-12-22 08:38 PM

Beatrice,
Proof age is just a number! I thought all Raiders fans were rabid.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

19 posted 2006-12-22 10:51 PM

Bea, truth is,
I don't know how
young people see me...
for when I look into
their beautiful eyes,
I see me....

in great disguise...

Thank you for a wonderful poem...
and it is probably time
that I act my "age".

Oh, 47, forever!

Jess
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since 2006-06-06

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20 posted 2006-12-23 12:35 PM

Oh I just love this...

Beatrice Boyle
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21 posted 2006-12-23 01:32 AM

Aloha James...so glad you enjoyed it.

Merry Christmas

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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22 posted 2006-12-23 01:38 AM

Hi Larry...that's what they say about us GIANTS fans!

Ho Ho Ho!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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23 posted 2006-12-23 01:42 AM

Hi Sunshine, 47 sounds about right to me too!

Bea

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