If Time Shifts Into Reverse

How about if time thinks out of the box
  Let it be cunning, as sly as a fox
Instead of forward, shift into reverse
  Life might be better, if you're not risk-averse

Now just think, in November
  if instead of December
The next month was October
  and after that, September --
That would be a year to remember

And of course, no need to be older than 50
  once you hit five-oh, just back up and go
49, 48, 47, 46 ~ Time would be fun
  if it would think of such tricks

Yet calendars have been printed
  coins have been minted
There's money in keeping things
  the way that they are

So, I guess I'll move to an island
  way far away in the sea
Where time won't bother
  to sneak up on me

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Date: 11/11/2021 12:17:00 PM
I am ready to go backwards in age, but not in seasons. I have been promised snow tomorrow and I love snow!
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/12/2021 10:46:00 AM
'S'no joke, I guess. Smiles, gw
Date: 11/5/2021 9:11:00 PM
Hello Gershon ... time; our lives must be lived by the clock (and daylight saving here). If time reversed Gershon, our computers and cell phones would disappear and we might actually socialize face to face again - catch you soon Gershon - Lindsay
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Date: 11/4/2021 9:19:00 AM
Fun write, gw. Oh, the thought of moving backward through time year by year! I would be turning 79 in December. However, in thirty years I'd have to go through that heart attack again. No thanks!
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Date: 11/4/2021 6:44:00 AM
...Ah, yes, a bit of "romantic recall" here Gershon
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Date: 11/4/2021 6:40:00 AM
A great fun poem Gershon! I hope you enjoy today, as yesterday lol :)
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Date: 11/4/2021 3:13:00 AM
Oh to be sixteen again, no aches and pains and not a care in the world. Tom
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Date: 11/3/2021 9:06:00 PM
Gershon, your engaging poem is imaginative, interesting and amusing. It also has a pleasing rhyme and charm. Great work! :D
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/5/2021 4:56:00 AM
You've hit on my motto here, Evelyn: 'Rhyme and charm -- and do no harm!' ~ Rounded Ball point pens and Rubber-tipped arrows
Date: 11/3/2021 8:32:00 PM
Hi! Gershon...I enjoyed your poem. I like the way your thinking reverse time. Then we can change a lot of things we have done in the past and due it over again. Blessings ~ Debbie
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/5/2021 4:55:00 AM
'Forward into the past!' Ole! ~ Senor Gershon
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