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Thread #126200 Message #2802127
Posted By: Marje
03-Jan-10 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: Poems about Growing Old (and songs)
Subject: RE: Poems about Growing Old
One of my favouriste quotations (not quite a poem but as good as) has been attributed to various people, icnluding Nadine Stair. There are longer versions but this one says it all for me:
"If I had my life over again, I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I would have fewer imaginary ones.
You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all again I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day."
Or on a lighter note there's Pam Ayres' "Sexy at Sixty":
http://www.itsbullfrog.com/guests/ayres/sixty.htm
Marje