Tag: Age
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The old women of Francisco Goya
Time is running out for these two decrepit old crones who clearly have seen better days. In this 1820 painting titled El Tiempo, Francisco Goya shows the figure of Cronos hovering over the two women, ready to sweep them away with a broom into the memory of time. The woman in white, her face besmirched…
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Five Untitled Poems
Simon PerchikEast Hampton, New York, United States * Slowly the glass, half filled, halfmelting down for a slippernot yet hardened into light is flickering the way a moonstill sets itself on firethen changes into taking its time and you become an old womanwith a cane, around and aroundas if this rim at last remembers overflows…
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Immigrants, all
Eric PfeifferTampa, Florida, USA Poet’s statement I am so lucky. My poems write themselves. I only listen. Immigrants, allOld age was a foreign countrywhen I first came here,another language spoken,and customs hard to understand. But I have learned the language.Sometimes I even dreamin my new tonguethough idioms still elude me. I tried to ask the…