Well, yes, it is in a similar vein, mocking while sympathising.
I think it was the first time I ever knew that men worried about ageing too!
Another vein to mine, perhaps?
jane
n_jgd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
n_jgd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jane,
Nice poem, reminded me of a similar one by Ogden Nash
Indu
A Lady who Thinks She Is Thirty
by Ogden Nash
Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror,
One unwilling step she takes,
Shuddering to the mirror.
Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.
Shining like the morning star,
Like the twilight shining,
Haunted by a calendar,
Miranda is a-pining.
Silly girl, silver girl,
Draw the mirror toward you;
Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.
Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?
Oh, Night will not see thirty again,
Yet soft her wing, Miranda;
Pick up your glass and tell me, then--
How old is Spring, Miranda?
--- In [email protected], 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
> You'll do it all in one go,
> If you give up cigarettes.
>
> I know you worry
> About that thin, balding patch
> And the protuding tummy.
> It's 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 don't 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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