Simple joys...frail years, poem by Peter Menkin

posted by Peter Menkin, FullSunday, February 14th 2010 @ 9:10 PM (not yet rated) post viewed 979 times

Simple joys...frail years
by Peter Menkin (2002)

Old age is 90--
her eyesight dimming,
we visit the ducks
with ducklings and she
shows the sharpened insight
of age, looking towards
practical things like
feeding them.

That will make them come
see us. They will visit.
Simple joys.

Motion
in the water's stream.

The young lives of the birds is refreshing, a drink of coolness in Spring.

We two are learning
friendship, company
and humankind's frail
years are visited upon
us.

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Dave Smith
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fatherdave said on Monday, February 15th 2010 @ 9:55 PM:

Peter, you have a way of making old-age look far less foreboding.