Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

On Turning Fifty Contest

ON TURNING FIFTY

As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.

Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:

“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs.

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Fifty is the turning point -
No sense denying, we’ll all die one day.
For example, just letting fifty flip off your lips…

What the blankety blank?!
Well, look, I am old enough to swear…after all!

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My baby sister thinks old age a grand joke -
All us old farts…me fourteen years her senior.

But we all know, even baby sisters hit the jackpot:

I can hear her screaming, “Noooooo! That’s im-po-sibbbbble!”

If you heard a star wars reference, yes I’m that old!

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50 is a party hardy age:

We shake our groove thang

Grown men line up in full gear for the YMCA
My husband unbuttons his shirt

“My eyes…”

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Fellow fifty lifers fill your flagons with felicitous fright…I mean delight
Lift up those hefty flagons, if you still have the strength.
If you can still laugh your not dead yet. Fifty more to go to the finish line.

Fifty more is up to you:

Fifty drinks
Fifty breaths
Fifty sighs
Fifty laughs
Fifty years

Cheers!

4/10/2017
A free as can be free verse, who the heck cares…I’m fifty plus :)

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Curtis Johnson April 28, 2017 at 8:04 PM Enjoyed the write Kim. Good to hear from others going my way. Kim Rodrigues April 28, 2017 at 8:44 PM Thank you, Curtis!

Anne-Marie Coreggia April 10, 2017 at 9:33 AM Thanks for the laughs Kim, you turned fifty into a grand party:) Amitiés Kim Rodrigues April 10, 2017 at 9:42 AM The only way to go, Anne-Marie :)

Beautiful Scars April 10, 2017 at 8:26 AM awesome! Cheers is right!!! great one for the contest- looks like a winner to me Kim- :)-luloo Kim Rodrigues April 10, 2017 at 8:33 AM Thanks, Luloo! :)

Phil Capitano April 10, 2017 at 7:54 AM You go girl! Fifty is the new forty, lol. You are as old as you feel and that is a moving scale from day to day. Good luck. Kim Rodrigues April 10, 2017 at 7:55 AM Thirty was scary, forty was frightening, fifty is who the heck cares...lol! Thanks, Phil! :)