Tag: aging
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Five Untitled Poems
Simon Perchik East Hampton, New York, United States Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in). Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles * Slowly the glass, half filled, half melting down for a slipper not yet hardened into light is flickering the…
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Breese Nursing Home: an exploration of humanity and love
Ellen Jantzen Newport Beach, California, United States I attended a nursing home Christmas party at the Breese Nursing Home in Illinois the week before Christmas, 2010 and was very moved by the residents and their families; it was a life-changing event for me. Before, while visiting my mother-in-law, I would divert my eyes when…
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Those golden years
Richard SobelKibbutz Revivim, Israel “I’ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.” Jeanne Clement was one hundred ten years old but cheerful and lucid when she made that remark during an interview. She may still have been smoking: she stopped only when her vision became too poor to see the cigarette well…
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Immigrants, all
Eric Pfeiffer Tampa, Florida, USA Poet’s statement: I am so lucky. My poems write themselves. I only listen. Immigrants, all Old age was a foreign country when I first came here, another language spoken, and customs hard to understand. But I have learned the language. Sometimes I even dream in my new tongue though…
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Age and Aging
Myron F. Weiner, M.D. Dallas, Texas Age, a mere number, is neither enemy nor friend. Aging Stirs us from primordium Though maturation To our universal fate. Age measures our finitude Aging, our fortitude. Adding strength when young Stripping when old Of sensibilities Of strength Leaving only lassitude. The years are not to be feared,…