I am not sacrificing my youthfulness on the altar of common senseAmorah – Deb There are rules about ageing and few of them are appealing. One being that the body has to act its age and fall apart. You also have to develop more wrinkles than a hundred year old elephant. Then apply more creamsContinueContinue reading “How to Not Age”
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I See You Now
Age brings with it understanding. You see why your party’s may not have aged happily, lost their spark, become frustrated and disillusioned. You can learn from that and I’m grateful for the lessons my parents showed me.
Oldness
Oldness is a natural state of life if you’re lucky. Getting old is optional. The trouble is that the world keeps telling you you’re old rather than celebrating that. You get treated like an old banger rather than the shiny new cars that adorn the driveways of the youthful and allegedly vibrant. Those old bangersContinueContinue reading “Oldness”
Who Am I?
Too tempting not to use the book cover to illustrate this poem about the life-long search for self, that is so much fun. Far from age taking things away from you, it gives you so much more. You feel free to be who you are, do as you wish (taking others into consideration of course,ContinueContinue reading “Who Am I?”
Wrinkles
Photo by Nashua Volquez-Young on Pexels.com These fingers have bent a million times And this face has creased into thousands of expressions The lines around my eyes arose from Crying at sadness Laughing with joy Wincing at the unkindness of the world And squinting through headaches and bright sunshine This saggy chin has dipped downContinueContinue reading “Wrinkles”
You Should See Her
I love the twist at the end of this poem. One of those where you think it’s obvious and then it isn’t. But to me, as a spiritual thinker, this has an important point. We’re more alike than we think, and there’s a little bit of everything in all of us. It’s quite weird lookingContinueContinue reading “You Should See Her”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 