wearing these colors
ON TURNING SIXTY
Do you remember when it was
people stopped calling you
young lady and you became
just ma'am or madam?
Around the same time it became
too much trouble to go out?
These days I tell my kids
not to do things I'd begun doing
well before I was their age,
and yard work once a torture
is now a fine escape.
There is a chain saw in the forest
taking out old trees. Once
I would have tried to stop them,
now I enjoy the opened space.
John Enright
Do you remember when it was
people stopped calling you
young lady and you became
just ma'am or madam?
Around the same time it became
too much trouble to go out?
These days I tell my kids
not to do things I'd begun doing
well before I was their age,
and yard work once a torture
is now a fine escape.
There is a chain saw in the forest
taking out old trees. Once
I would have tried to stop them,
now I enjoy the opened space.
John Enright
Labels: arthur wesley dow, detective, gustave baumann, hiroshi yoshida, John Enright, poetry
2 Comments:
What a beautiful blog.
thank you so much htgt--it's great when beauty communicates for itself
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hi, and thanks so much for stopping by. i spend all too much time thinking my own thoughts about this stuff, so please tell me yours. i thrive on the exchange!
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