Re: [ZESTPoets] Birthday poems

ronnie banerjee Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:34:06 -0800

Got the paradox. Generally women worry about ageing. here's one who is comforting an otherwise youngish man. And then is it not in forties that one faces a mid-life crisis. and then a birthday is about celebration. But this poem synonimises a birthday with angst and ageing all while being completely tongue in cheek. This poem has hidden depths

jane bhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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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