Happy 85th Birthday
Miracle Man
12-5-2023
Birthdays started wrong,
don’t have to remain that way;
but they often do.
HAPPY 85TH BIRTHDAY SWEET SOUL SHIRLEY!!
I hope today is as special as you are
Relax and enjoy being spoilt
Heres a birthday cuddle from afar!
I am so happy our paths have crossed
Our friendship has been formed
From your honest, heartfelt poems
My heart was truly warmed
You write with such versatility
With humour, sadness and cheer
Captivating tales about your life
Of now and days of yesteryear
Your body maybe ageing Shirley
But your mind is astute and sharp
Your poems are intelligent and witty
Beautifully penned from your open heart
You are one beautiful lady
Authentic to the core
Happy Birthday my sweet friend Shirley
I wish you many more!
Birthday : Monday 26th September
His 85th birthday
a piece of cake
bb did take bb = birthday boy
Some special gifts
his fingers shook
he unwrapped
two longed-for books
Another year gone by
a rough stretch
but good times sure
what matter, rich or poor
Closer to God he edges
counting down
not up... now
two questions: when and how
____________________________
A fictional piece, although I picked
85 because my mother lived to
age 86.
It's Barangka Mandaluyong
That celebrates eighty-fifth year;
Each member's faith never goes wrong,
As judgment day is very near.
Topic: 85th Anniversary of Barangka Mandaluyong, Metro Manila East (March 23,2021)
S-tart
A-nother
N-ew
N-ormal
A-s
R-abid
C-oronavirus
I-s
S-taying
O-n
Topic: 85th Anniversary of San Narciso, Zambales South (May 30,2020)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
P-ropagate
I-nspiring
N-ews
E-vangelizing
D-ifferent
A-udiences
Topic: 85th Anniversary of Pineda, Metro Manila East (March 25,2020)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
PROPHETIC DREAM – JOURNAL IX
On the outskirts,
Framed on either side
By a farm house a barn
I discovered this winding path
It is early autumn
The trees about the house
Are full of lingering gold
Various harvest implements are seen
A silo rises in the foreground
With a tool shed beside
And the receding meadow beyond – cut
in two by the path – a luscious green
Far distant is a dense, black forest fronting
purpled mountains
I am just past my 85th birthday
And the mysterious future, creeping ever
closer, much on my mind
The dream vision is so colorful so clear
That when I awake
I must just lie still and wonder
85TH BIRTHDAY –
Journal IX
Nostalgia figures no
time span
An event of many,
many years seems no
more
than a few
Looking out on the
world with the same
eyes
Memory is tricked
Ah yes that, but
wishfulness too
Events colors
take on a magical
gleam
The mind-body
frolics with actions
of a child,
Hop scotching,
kicking the can
Long lost sounds
ghostly renew
All pain is
forgotten
In favor of some
drowsy awareness
One is surprised
that memory has, for
the
moment, erased
that pain
Periods of nostalgia
increase
The slipping away is
frightening –
What is death but
A complete slipping
away –
In these last few I
shall covet reality
RESTR
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