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My Sixth-Seventh Year

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My sixty-seventh March 13 Hoarse, the lion roar is fading; the lamb sneaks up again. Hot, another birthright tallied; the candles are so dense. Black, the coated wicks will smolder; they huddle upon cake. come to me, whom I’ve remembered; come to me for whom I’ve ached. ©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins March 2012

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Daver Austin

Date: 9/30/2015 10:10:00 AM

This makes me sad - the somber color of it al and the yearning. Congrats. Love, daver

Terry O'Leary

Date: 10/25/2012 3:48:00 PM

Belated Happy Birthday Kathy... nice imagery for aging (I guess)... Reading your poem was a present for me!!! Terry

Keith Bickerstaffe

Date: 5/12/2012 10:13:00 PM

Unique, and utterly fascinating! Your phrasing, and the imagery it produces, is extraordinary! BRAVO, Kathryn!! Best wishes, Keith

Kathryn Collins
Date: 5/14/2012 7:33:00 AM

Thanks Keith. Your comment makes it worth growing up (I did not not say old). Kathy

Gail Debole

Date: 4/7/2012 7:20:00 PM

Hi Kathy - Hope your birthday was a good one. I can relate to your last two lines. Thanks for reading my Nice Day for a Funeral poem. I would love to know more about my ancestors, and am interested in finding out as much as possible. - Gail

Kathryn Collins
Date: 5/14/2012 7:32:00 AM

Thanks Gail. Pretty soon I'm going to need a sheet cake. Kathy

Margaret Foster

Date: 4/7/2012 7:26:00 AM

Always a time to reflect when birthdays come around. You express the feelings of the passing years so well in this little gem. Well done...

Kathryn Collins
Date: 4/7/2012 8:23:00 AM

Thank you Margaret. I always love a good birthday cake whose ever it is.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/4/2012 10:27:00 PM

The ending is so poignant, so sad. I really enjoyed this. I see the person below me asking your age and you told him/her that the title was screwed up. Did you mean to change it and didn't know how? I can help you if you don't know. Or maybe you like the title how it is. I understood the title since i knew you! Luv, Andrea

Kathryn Collins
Date: 5/14/2012 7:31:00 AM

screwed up aagain. hugs

Streety Young

Date: 4/3/2012 9:10:00 AM

so r you six teen

Kathryn Collins
Date: 4/4/2012 7:34:00 AM

Nope! I'm sixty seven. The title is all screwed up.

Daver Austin

Date: 3/31/2012 12:03:00 PM

Congratulations, Kathy. I was sixty seven about 15 years ago. No lion's roar left in me ether. Love, daver

Kathryn Collins
Date: 4/1/2012 8:07:00 AM

check your birth certificate. they're lying to you.

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 3/22/2012 10:36:00 AM

Kathryn, sorry to hear about your daughter.. I wrote that poem from my inner child's perception,,, and amazing grace is the most terrifying song ever... I will never accept the song. Sorry to say, 18 years ago when they sang it at my daughters funeral..it broke me completely,.THE SONG!... but, i have allowed myself to feel with the song again. Due to my mothers condition... God bless you, and your poem above... very moving...always..pd

Cyndi Macmillan

Date: 3/21/2012 9:54:00 PM

:-) cause WOW and :-( Cause WOW! Ah, all those we ache for.... You fit so much in so little, Kathy! Oh, me? I blather... you? A perfect pearl. Hey, my girl will turn 3 in May. And I turn 47 in August. She's both my energy and my energy depletion. LOL. Awk! What about the teen years? Heavens!

Samuel St. Clair

Date: 3/19/2012 12:22:00 PM

thanks for your comments. I like your writing also!

Kathryn Collins

Date: 3/18/2012 7:21:00 AM

Thanks Melanie for you sweet comments. Kathy

Melanie Hillmer

Date: 3/17/2012 11:09:00 AM

This has a smooth flow, as if to be reminisce of 18th-19th century poetry, combined within the here and now, of the 20th century. I admire you're talent. Thank You for sharing.

Kathryn Collins
Date: 3/18/2012 7:22:00 AM

Thanks Melanie -- I commented in the wrong place. a duh

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/16/2012 9:56:00 PM

I LOVE this, and you have to check out my poem called March 2012. It's got a lot in common with this one!!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/16/2012 9:56:00 PM

Happy belated birthday if I never told you at PFT?

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 3/12/2012 12:43:00 PM

Happy birthsday tomorrow Kathryn, hope the day vill shine!!! - xoxo Anne-Lise

Kathryn Collins
Date: 3/16/2012 7:56:00 AM

Anne-Lise -- It was a very very good birthday day. Thanks for adding to it. love, Kathy

Joe Flach

Date: 3/12/2012 12:36:00 PM

Well, happy soon to be birthday Kathryn. The problem is - you are counting the wrong date ... don't count your birthdate, count the February 29ths - you've only experienced 16 of them!!!! Hardly even a teenager. Nice write, Kathryn. I hope your lion roars once again ... and you have new batteries in your smoke alarm. ;-) Enjoy your 67th. Joe

Kathryn Collins
Date: 3/16/2012 7:58:00 AM

Joe -- What special comments you have made. Thank you. No sirens went off after lighting the candles that softened the carvel cake to perfection. love, Kathy