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Golden Years

GOLDEN YEARS (triple Haiku)

and where to from here?
see those gray mists gathering
questions answered soon

oh!    So many years
why? ‘twas only yesterday
same eyes looking out

where has the time gone?
forgetfulness is soothing
but where to from here?

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Skat A

Date: 6/13/2015 7:21:00 PM

I like this, Daver, looking forward to my golden years. I'm looking for answers right now, so I'm guessing one day I will know the answers to everything. I'm naming the where to from here, "My Paradise Life" SKAT LOVE

Judith Angell Meyer

Date: 6/25/2010 8:07:00 AM

I managed an Assisted Living once. One of the residents was complaining about her aches and pains, and I said I thought these were the golden years. Then SHE said, "Ha, the golden years ... You spend all your years rubbing off the rust, and then the Doctors get the gold!"

Judith Angell Meyer

Date: 6/25/2010 8:02:00 AM

I don't know, "where to from here?" I wonder though sometimes. If I could only, before I die, convince the youth that an old person, the ones they patronize, are looking out the same eyes and seeing the same things at the same age as they are. Old age ... the never ending 25 years of age ... with the exception of experience. :)

James Peranteau

Date: 5/23/2010 5:43:00 PM

Great Haiku Sir ! Here comes that sprout of, of, oh no...gray ! I like this very much ! ..goin to mine favs ! james

Sue Mason

Date: 5/23/2010 12:18:00 PM

On to the greatest adventures ... smile ... yes indeed they are gold and precious and there's nothing like dandelion fluff or waving daffodils to make each day more sweet. Wonderful write here, Daver ... at 67 I feel about 38 inside ... strange what the mirror says ... LOL

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/23/2010 1:16:00 AM

aha, forgetfulness is soothing? Hmmm, I will have to try to rmember that when I get to your age. hahaha. YOu will go on forever, Daver. LUv ya, andrea

James Marshall Goff

Date: 5/22/2010 12:08:00 PM

oh, the gray mists!...alas, rejoice! experience rules! well done! Daver! jinbo

Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 5/21/2010 5:05:00 PM

Nicely expressed thoughts. Life is such.

Skat A

Date: 5/21/2010 4:40:00 PM

DAVER, it can not B that bad. At least U can call them Golden years the brighter side of life. love your last line(((but where to from here?)))) I wish I knew myself. ENJOYED YOUR 3 HAIKU,,SKAT

John Loving Iii

Date: 5/21/2010 4:14:00 PM

these questiond loom in my distance. john