I too was really pleased with what came out of the mom-pop poems. There was no intention, at the beginning, to have such a long-running theme and yet it happened. We all have parents...it was truly wonderful to get such a response to the first poem.
Here is a birthday poem I wrote for a man who openly worried about his age. Fifteen years older than him, and much fatter, I mocked him as gently as I could for his obsession with youth.
I don't think of this as publishing; I share my poems if I think they fit the occasion. And often the feedback results in a better poem.
Jane
THE BIRTHDAY
So what if you are forty-five?
You wept over all those candles
That took several puffs
To blow out, your heart sinking
At this evidence of aging.
Maybe at forty-six or so
Youll do it all in one go,
If you give up cigarettes.
I know you worry
About that thin, balding
patch
And the protuding tummy.
Its ok: we women worry
About wrinkles, grey hair,
Varicose veins, an extra chin,
And the fact that no diet,
However tough, no exercise,
Seems to make us thin.
So dont cry, honey
Just tuck in your
tummy
And think youthful thoughts:
You just got to the age
Where mental ability
Can exceed physical
ability.
jane bhandari
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