18 May 2017

Poem

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  1. I feel that way when I see pictures of myself.

    Did any particular incident inspire the poem?

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    1. Yes it did Kylie. I found a picture of a woman I knew long ago.

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  2. A reflection of life...of one's role played therein. If there is no reflection...then there is no life...

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    1. And that second remark belongs in a book of wise aphorisms.

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  3. I think we all have such thoughts but more it's a denial that we will grow old.

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    1. It's like fat people. They look in mirrors but don'r really see their fatness.

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  4. I admit I am shocked when I see photos of long lost friends and acquaintances, can't believe how old they look. And then realise they will think the same of me.

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    1. No way Sue! I have seen pictures of you and you look young. A lot of this is no doubt down to your optimistic, youthful character.

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    2. Smooth talker.

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    3. You sussed me Terry!

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  5. People age so differently, don't they. I meet some of my former classmates once or twice a year; we started this in 2007, decades after I had seen some of them for the last time at school.
    With some, I found they had hardly changed, even still wearing the same hairdo. Others I found had aged so visibly, I would not have believed they were born the same year as I if I didn't know.
    With men, it is receding hairlines that make a huge difference to me; with women, some enlarge so much around the middle and then start wearing frumpy clothes that they look older than their own grandmas did back then.

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    1. You are right to observe that people age differently.
      But if I might say so Meike, you will remain forever young.

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  6. Sometimes it's better not to know, eh?

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    1. I think you're right Steve. The internet opens up some doors that would have been closed forever in the past.

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  7. Quite true. I've had the same thoughts. I like how you've turned the first line inside out to become the last line.

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    1. I couldn't examine her with an element of scientific scrutiny without admitting my own frailty.

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  8. I often remark to Tom how everyone we know is looking so old and we are not and I believe it to be true, lol
    Briony
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    1. We see ourselves ageing so gradually that we can fool ourselves into thinking that we haven't changed.

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  9. Ah yes - Old Father Time - happens to us all.

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    1. I wish he would put down his sickle and take a long break.

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  10. Age is nothing. I am slim and lithe and my hair thick and brown. My skin is gleaming chestnut and my eyes gleam like sapphires twinkling at the bottom of a shallow Hawaiian pool.

    You can probably tell that I'm not keen om mirrors.

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  11. Better old than dead...from someone who has seen a thirty year-old dead, lost a 53 year-old friend, another in her early forties, someone not yet sixty and a relative at 102 who the week before her death was out with friends and enjoying herself.

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    1. You are right there "e"-life is a lottery. Some people never do grow old - like all those soldiers on memorials.

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