Although this poem is outdated, it took four months to be published.Enjoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: Prose'n'Poems To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:47 AM Subject: Early Sunsets * Midlife Crisis
Prose'n'Poems 19-Mar-09 ± __________________________________________________________________ ± Welcome to Prose'n'Poems. Start your day with the Thought Of The Day and enjoy the poems and prose from various writers. The content is not meant to offend anyone. If any of the material is Copyright, please inform me and I shall give proper credit or remove it from the site. Please read the copyright information at the bottom. Hershy õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ Thought Of The Day What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ Photo for the day: Sign http://hershy.smugmug.com/gallery/6972999_iVPCh/1/459019036_W2Hus/Large Do click on the link and have a look. Your comments and star rating are most welcome! They also help getting it selected for top 1000 pictures! In case you feel too lazy to add a comment, click on the green thumbs-up icon that appears when you pass the mouse on the upper right corner of picture. õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ A REQUEST To keep Prose'n'Poems going we need contributions from members. Original contributions and other collected from elsewhere. Please do not send Copyright material without a permission from the author. õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ Early Sunsets Early sunsets I do not adore, Sunshine radiance in the evening, I crave and yearn for more. Dark and dismal is the evening, Cast feelings of fatigue and sleepiness over everything. The sun is resting in a lazy way, as you know, Oh, I truly miss the early evening caress and embrace of sunshine's warm tender golden glow. Nature's eyes close as darkness descends everywhere, Gone for awhile is brightness renewed charm and exquisite flare . But the winter months we must possess, Time races by and in four months, will arrive sunshine's evening joy, and energetic zest. Cynthia Groopman Copyright © Cynthia L. Groopman õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ Share your poems, prose, thought of the day with thousands of people. Send them to [email protected] õõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõõ Midlife Crisis A glance in the mirror. Simple, yet altering somehow. I am not the child I once was, yet I can still see him there. Bright, happy, outgoing. But wait, I pause to truly see the me I am today; lines and crevices mar the unspoiled face of childhood, mirroring the many paths I could have chosen. I am not sixteen, I am not twenty, and I am no longer thirty-five. Time has marched across my features and I can scarcely remember the Never Neverland of childish imaginings. Yet, as I continue to gaze in the reflection, I see the features of family older and wiser in the shape and contour of my face. These family members gaze at me knowingly and understand the path I tread. A few of these family members remain while others reside in my memory only. One day, those gathered in my mind will be the stuff of legend with a bit of fable thrown in. Family stories will be passed along to those who never knew the flesh and blood reality. Given enough time, most will be forgotten. This chance encounter with the me in the mirror brings about a midlife crisis of sorts. And I find myself needing to make a choice. I can attempt to mimic the me I recall in faulty memory or I can attempt to honor the memory of those I have known by being more like them. Yet, neither choice seems entirely agreeable. Perhaps there is another choice. The good old days are often the best of memories, sifted often and embellished with time. The future holds much promise, dreams, adventure, danger, new generations who do not see eye to eye with the past, declining health, perhaps loss of job, loss of memory and loss of my spouse. My life is neither at the beginning and it may not be at the end. God delights in the heart of a child, so I choose that heart. God delights in maturity, so I chose this path. God gave Moses his greatest assignment at the age of 80, Abraham became a parent at 100, Paul and John wrote significant words later in life. Through aches and pains, flesh thorns and heartache, God used these men. I will not cower at the thought of the coming years. I want to run eagerly to my Savior's side and take His assignments gladly. I want to do so willingly. Rather than looking back at the way things were, I want to look ahead to the way things could be. I want the heart of a child and the maturity of a wise man. I want to greet each day with a willingness to pursue the adventure called life. I won't do it by acting like someone half my age. I will do it with the help of an ageless God who loves me and understands that I am but dust. I will associate with younger people. I will need to know what they think and how they see their world. I will surround myself with older people. I will need the wisdom they can offer. And I will not contribute one dime to the widening of the generation gap. The me in the mirror is not what I once was. The me in the mirror is not the final word on who I will become. The me in the mirror is simply a reflection of today. A day that the Lord has made for my enjoyment and, more importantly, His purpose. I walk away from the mirror with a smile on my face. I have things to do, crisis averted! Glenn A. Hascall (Posted by Coffeemom 9/9/2006) from the 4th Kid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Attention all subscribers Prose'n'poems takes all poets on the honor system and cannot be held responsible for unethical contributors. We receive many wonderful submissions by our loyal readers. Though most pieces are original, we sometimes receive submissions with no author's name indicated or credited as "author unknown." while we make a great effort to find out who the author is, we are not always successful. 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