Survivor48
wow, excellent rhyming poem! it is certainly unique. it flows very well. I love the rhymes. powerful meaning.
2016-07-03

Damon
Hello Dear Lady,

I somehow missed this one, and it is of course wonderfully written as most all of yours are. I love your writings.

Damon
2011-01-15

Nancy Sikora
"Wondering where I went and wanted to go"-- I like that line the best. What happened to those elusive, intrinsic qualities which in our youth we thought of as "self?". Where did we go?
2011-01-02

Zoya Zaidi
Kathy darling, I can so understand this! Recently my mother was very sick, I spent a whole month in Dubai, where she lives with my brother, looking after her. It was so torturous to see an active person, an author, a poet, educationist and a teacher all her life, like her to be oblivious of everything else except her day to day struggle with pain...
2011-01-02

countryfog
As Jim said, conflciting thoughts indeed. I commented to someone the other day that I've reached a point where I "know" so much less than I used to, but believe much more in what remains. Life does seem to be a long losing, but there is a fierce attachment and appreciation for what we can hold on to, which is not as much of the body as of the mind and the spirit, a hard-earned and hard-learned wisdom from which, if we listen to it, can come a different and more honest way of seeing and accepting ourselves. Life has always meant change and whatever one's age there are too many good years left to not allow one's perspectives to change too.

There are many memorable lines here, and what could have slipped into pathos does not. Well done.
2011-01-01

I really like this, and I've tried a couple times to comment. It just leads to too many conflicting thoughts about how we got where we are, how we reconcile who we are and our appearance, and how we find ourselves images of our parents. I like to think that what's to come will be good, and the baggage of age and all the unpleasant details that you've described won't matter. But they do matter, and will, and one can only hope they won't matter too much, that they won't define us. We were always vain, there's nothing new about it, the mirror was always critical. At least in my experience. It was worse at thirteen, but there's no denying what you've said.

jim
2011-01-01

Tango
This is so very true, one minute you are a teenager, and before you know it one wonders where have all those years gone.
Tango.
2011-01-01

Phyllis J. Rhodes
This is so very good. With your talent for descriptive phrasing you have told our sorry tale of aging perfectly. It is sadly funny and completely out of our control. And that makes it very scary!
2011-01-01