When You are Old

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contest When You Are Old sponsor Sara Kendrick

When you are old the world is not unknown and you can count the layers in your soul each one laid down by the life you control wrinkled scars from time, only you own These memories can often disappear never to be remembered anymore they are hidden in the mind forevermore buried layers through time that reappear stories of your life you have never told a silent layered memory to last gives reason your thoughts linger in the past as memories come and go when you're old

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/22/2025 12:22:00 PM

Congrats. This is a great poem.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 1/21/2025 11:51:00 AM

Congratulations on your winning work in my contest. Way to go. Thank you for your participation. Sara K

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 1/21/2025 11:10:00 AM

- Congratulations on your win in the contest, Frederic :) - hugs

Susan Ashley

Date: 1/18/2025 8:56:00 AM

Frederic, dear friend, dear poet, the rich depth of your golden pen captures the passage of time, aging and introspection with poetic finesse. Especially striking was "you can count the layers in your soul" -so evocative and visual like tree rings of a long-lived oak. Your poem is insightful, beautiful, poignant like the persistent memories the "disappear" and "reappear" as we grow old. Humans tend to dwell in the past in later years when we don't have many more days ahead. Your perceptive poetic talent shines. Warmest wishes.. ~Susan

Margaret Foster

Date: 1/16/2025 5:55:00 PM

This is just so good. Frederic. I’m sure it will rate high in the contest good luck…

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 1/16/2025 10:23:00 AM

- A wonderful poem, Frederic - I wrote one - "Accept The Things You Can't Change" - but, not an interpretation of the poem by : W. B. Yeats /"When You Are Old" ... this is what happens when you don't read the contest rules :))) - Best wishes in the contest :) - hugs